"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

> So the only conclusion I can come to is that monkeyjam and the xvid codec have
> some kind of problem working together. Which means I need to go back through
> *all* the xvid-encoded animations I've made, to see if *they* contain any
> duplicate frames that I never noticed.
>

Sadly, I *do* see duplicate frames in many of my other monkeyjam/xvid
animations-- usually at the very beginning of the animation (which is probably
why they escaped my notice before) and *sometimes* an additional frame
somewhere within the animation. But I also discovered that monkeyjam has
sporadic problems with *other* MPEG compression codecs as well; not duplicated
frames per se, but other errors which look like 'interleaved video.' Not all of
the time, though, which is rather maddening.

Given these monkeyjam/codec errors, I think that from here on out, I'll use
monkeyjam only to *assemble* the animation, save it as a temporary,
UNCOMPRESSED video (which results in a large file, of course), then import that
into VirtualDub and do the xvid compression there. Experiments so far show me
that this is an error-free approach.

KW

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