Arrgh ... it pays to check your source...

[rickmccl]

Downloaded a nice video, wanted to make a SVCD. Encoded it and found the audio out of synch at the end. Converted audio to wav; reencoded; got an error from tmpeg 12g about audio at 99% of encoding; Still out of synch. Then I checked the source divx- out of synch at the end of the file. D'OH!!!

Now I'm running it thru virtualdub to change the framerate to match audio / video lengths. Neat how vdub was able to tell me instantly that the 24.97x fps video needed to go to 24.99x. Outputting to huffyYuv video, pcm audio. Hope it works!
I guess tmpeg will have to change the frame rate. Since vdub is inserting frames, does anyone have an idea if that makes a difference as to which way I should go with tmpeg - 24fps / 3:2 , or 29.97?

thanks

[rickmccl]

gaah huffyYuv hit the max filesize, stupid winblowz!
But this is only a 100MB divx, so what's up with THAT...

[VidGuy]

Huffyuv compresses the full-frame AVI - basically VirtualDub expands the Divx to be a full-frame AVI, the Huffyuv recompresses it - this will always make a Divx AVI get larger.

The thing to do is use the "Save Segmented AVI" API, or just use the frameserving function of VirtualDub to frameserver to your MPeg encoder - with frameserving, you don't have to worry about disk space. There should be some info on the left under CONVERT or DVD RIP about frameserving with VirtualDub - it's not too difficult.