Jerky Video & distorted sound

[mossyrocks]

I have captured a PAL video to my hard drive via a firewire cable (analog video player - Sony TRV18E Digital Handycam - firewire cable - PC). The resultant AVI file plays fine via windows media player.

I have converted to a MPEG file via TMPGenc and the resultant file plays fine via media player and also plays fine via PowerDVD.

But when I burn to VCD via NERO the picture is jerky and the sound distorted(at times high pitched).

Any other information you require please let me know.

Any help to overcome this problem will be appreciated.

[snowmoon]

DV AVI's are 48khz where the VCD standard is 44.1khz. Your touble might be from this confusion. Currently the best known 48->44,1 converion is through BeSweet + GUI. You will have to encode the audio seperatly, but it might solve your problem.

[mossyrocks]

Thanks SNOWMOON - I thought the same thing but when I try to split the audio from the AVI file via VirtualDub I receive a message regarding --

Couldn't locate a decompressor for format 'dvsd' (unknown).

VirtualDub requires a Video for Windows (VFW) compatible codec to decompress video etc.

I believe I have all the relevant codec packs loaded ie Nimo etc.

What else do I require for VirtualDub to work?

Thanks.

[Bel]

You can use tmpgenc to extract the audio as a Wav. Load the avi in the audio source, go to file - output to file - Wav. Then convert it. When you encode your vcd, just set it up for system - Video, to create a .m2v file, then use tmpg to multiplex that with your audio file. File - Mpeg tools - Simple Multiplex.

[mossyrocks]

BEL,

Thanks for the information - I'm a bit slow on the uptake. I can create the WAV file as you suggest but I don't understand what I have to do to create the .m2v file. And what details do I input to the Simple Multiplex fields.

Thanks again.

[Faceman101]

Loading your DV AVI and converting with TMPGEnc with a PAL template should no provide those results. There shouldn't be any reason for you to extract the WAV and encode otherwise. Could be the media you are using in your DVD player. Could be how you burnt it. You could also try VCDEasy. Make sure you use the PAL template, read up on your DVD player on the left, and see if it is the media.

[mossyrocks]

People,

Thanks for your help - I fixed my own stupidity.

When burning with NERO - it was defaulting to NTSC format. Once I changed to PAL - bingo - no problems.

Cheers