Prepping pc to make that perfect burn

[snafubaby]

I have been having trouble keeping the audio and video on a dvd in sync. It plays fine on the PC, but when i burn to DVD, and play on my set-top DVD player, it's out of sync. I was wondering if anyone can give me any tips on prepping the pc to make that awesome burn. I luckily have been using a DVD-RW so i don't end up with any coasters. I just erase and retry. I know from experience that defragging the hard drive is paramount to a successful burn. I've done that. I also make sure i don't have any creepy crawlies lurking on my pc, as far as malware goes. I read that using Imgburn is great for dvd burning. Can i burn the traditional VIDEO_TS folder onto a DVD with Imgburn? IF not, can i just make it an ISO file and burn it with Imgburn that way? Please advise.

[hech54]

Audio sync issues have NOTHING to do with burning.

[snafubaby]

heck54 what do you think could be the problem? It plays fine on the PC, but goes out of sync on my set-top DVD player.

[Nelson37]

Are you testing the movie file or an image file of the authored DVD to be played? These are very, very different.

Burning has no effect, but authoring definitely does.

Have you tried the actual burned disk on the PC?

[Hoser Rob]

I don't know what source video you're using but there are lots of videos floating around out there that were made with weird non Microsoft codecs. Those shouldn't really be used, especially with windows 7, and many dvd authoring programs don't work properly with them.

I used to use avstodvd for authoring, and it usually will work with those f*$#ed up codecs.. Problem is, it uses non Microsoft codecs/filters/splitters too. I yanked it, and I actually haven't burned a video to dvd in some time. It's a pain.

If I were to do it now, I'd use DVDstyler as an author (it's a linux port and they don't need extra codecs to work with directshow), but it doesn't encode well. For that I'd use avidemux (another linux port) to convert to dvd compatible mpeg.

Avidemux will work with just about any weird source file too without taking over directshow. The only ones it hasn't worked with were broken. I know this because after I used file fixing utilities on them, they worked.

Sometimes the video is just a bad encode. It's just out of sync and there's nothing much you can do with it I know of. I can't believe how bad some videos with 10/10 user ratings are ...