VBA recording problem!, Help needed!

Okay, so I'm trying to record Yoshi's Island gameplay from Visual Boy Advance using the built in AVI recording tool. I'm getting some of the gameplay recorded okay, but the problem is, that it only records what it feels like. When I try to import the video onto Movie Maker, I get this message. And like I said, some of the gameplay I try to get can be recorded and imported to Movie Maker with no problems. Sadly, not all of them.


Do you know how I can fix this problem?

Do you change codec from recording to recording?

Does your computer have enough memory or hard disk space to properly record and save the longer bits of gameplay?

Are the longer recordings generally the ones that screw up or does it just appear to decide what to accept randomly?

There's many things that could be going on. I recommend shorter recordings, for lack of much sense in video stuff.

To answer your questions:
- No. I use the same format for all the videos. I never change them.
- Yes plenty of space.
- It decides what to accept randomly.
- The length doesn't matter. The video can be as short as 2 minutes and still get this issue. I mean, some of the recordings that do work can be longer.

Do the "corrupt" files play in media players?

If they do, then I can officially say that XP's movie maker stinks. Well, compared to Vista's, I guess, but that's unrelated to this here issue.

If not, then... I don't know what might be going on. Some setting in VBA? I doubt it, but... eh.

No they don't play in any media players, and I'm sure it has nothing to do with the settings.

Well, if they don't play in players, then they are getting corrupted somewhere along the line... but that's all I can guess.

Sorry I'm no help. =\

Are you using VBA-rerecording? The one normally used for TAS's?

If so, knock me up on MSN or AIM, I'll help you then, if not, I can only give general advice.

Are you using the ffdshow pack at all? If so, encode using lossless H.264. I always do for ANY encode I make stuff in.

Also, if the AVI is bigger then 2gb and you are using FAT or FAT32 for the drive you record to there WILL be file corruption issues.

Well I don't think memory or space is the issue, but I can try the encoding.

Edit: Thank you, Kevin! Lossless H.264 was the exact solution. Everything works great now!

This post has been edited by A.J. Nitro on Oct 28 2009, 04:26 PM