Experience using VideoReDo or Womble to fix .mpg's?

[Brent212]

I'm using a Hauppauge PVR 250 to capture VHS tapes for conversion to DVD. I've heard the Hauppauge creates shoddy mpg files, however, that contain errors not seen until after the authoring process. This would make since because, while I have yet to make a capture that plays back in media player with any noticeable problems, I also have yet to burn one of those files to DVD without audio/video synch problems (video gets ahead of audio).

I've heard that these errornous .mpg files can be fixed in programs like Womble mpeg-vcr and VideoReDo. Does anyone know how to do this, and if it actually works? The Womble tool has a GOP Fixer, which finds PTS (presentation time stamp?) errors in any file captured with the Hauppauge. I've tried using this program to fix the file, but the authored DVD still has synch errors. I've also tried using VideoReDo, which has received a lot of praise at the shspvr.com forum (http://www.shspvr.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=13), by simply opening the .mpg and saving it (this might not be the correct process), but after using the "fixed" file, the authored DVD is still screwed. If anyone knows how to fix these .mpg's so they author without errors, I'd really appreciate some help.

Thanks,
Brent

[hudsonf]

You may be dropping frames when capturing your VHS tapes. If you can try another vcr or a tbc to see if this corrects your problem. VideoReDo has a feature that adjusts the audio sync under tools menu. This may work if it's not a gradual sync problem. Latley I've been using the PVR 250 and authoring with TMPGEnc DVD Author and haven't had any problems.

[jameshgross]

I use the Hauppauge WINTV PVR USB2.0 and Womble to convert over 100 VHS tapes to DVD. Your problem sounds like a souce problem in that you are dropping frames. You may want to try ULead DVD MovieFactory, I have found it to be more tolerant of buggy MPEG files.
Also make sure that while you are capturing video that you disable any background tasks and any antivirus sw that maybe running.