VCD a/v sync

[Badbadtz]

I started using FFMPEGX recently and managed to succesfully write a 2 /disc VCD from a divx file. It worked great! The framerate was 23.976 and i converted it into a NTSC VCD with the NTSC film framerate.

However, when I started to convert another divx to VCD, the terminal gave an error when the audio and video were muxing, something like 'too many dropped frames'. I managed to use another program to mux the video and the audio but by the end, the video lagged behind the audio by about 2 seconds. I thought this was maybe down to the framerate. The original file was 29fps so I encoded the VCD (NTSC) with the same 29 fps framerate. I tried again after this one failed with 25 fps but the video and audio were way out and the video played too slowly, but it did mux without any problems.

How can I make the conversion without these annoying sync problems?

Please can someone help me with this?! I'm sorry if I'm being retarded but I searched the forum and found nothing relevant. Forgvie my newbie-ness and answer this for me please!!

[digitaldave]

If you are getting dropped frames then you may be having problems with your computer.

A hard drive that is too fragmented after your first project.

Or something else holding up the data.

Anyone else have suggestions?

[badbadtz]

Maybe but with the conversion I did after the first unsuccesful one was out of sync but it was at least able to mux without stopping because of any dropped frames.

When i muxed the streams from the conversion of the first conversion (when i say first conversion, i meant the 29fps to 29fps conversion) was correct but as I said above, the video lagged behind the sound, but as far as I could tell, it stayed the same length behind until the end of the video. I tried to use Sync-Hole to fix the problem but these seemed useless. I don't know what to do! This is strange after I was able to rip the 23.976 fps video.

Still stuck but thanks in advance...