Audio and video out of sync on vcd, but ok in other formats

[HeavnlyStr]

Please help someone. I've been trying to figure this out for over a week. I purchased nero 5.5, excited about burning my downloaded avi files directly to vcd. When I try to watch my vcd though, the audio and video get out of sync very quickly. When I skip ahead though, it gets back in sync, but within a minute, back off again. So what I did, to try to fix it,I read that I could use another program to fix it, but need to be in mpg first, so I converted the dat to mpg, but in mpg, it works perfect. So to test it out, with that mpg I created from the dat, I used it to make another vcd, but the same problem occurs. I tried various cdr's...memorex, imation, verbatim, pny, and smartbuy... all with the same problem.... Please help me before I Also, tried burning at 4x and 16x, still same problem.

[vcdfreak]

Have you tried playing the VCD on a DVD/VCD player? Just to make sure that it's not your software player that is giving you the headache.

[HeavnlyStr]

That's a good idea, but too bad for me that the only other dvd player I got right now is ps2, which doesn't support vcd. I guess I could try playing it on someone elses dvd player though. Until then, please post me some more options. Thank you.

[HeavnlyStr]

Thabks alot vcdfreak! I tried it on another dvd player and it works great. Now I need to figure out what wrong... is it my dvd player or software... any ideas? Also, anyone know how to get another player? For some reason my windows media player won't work.

[HeavnlyStr]

Ok, got my windows media player to run, and runs good... but now I have this error that came up... Data error (cyclic redundancy check). When I check about it on the microsoft website, there is no help available. Anyone know what this is about?

[vcdfreak]

It's probably your RAM problem. I came across this page recently:

http://pcworld.com/downloads/collection/0,collid,1212,00.asp

You might want to try out the:

DocMemory RAM Diagnostic Software v1.45a

[vcdfreak]

What's the burner software you use? Hope it's Ahead Nero Burning ROM and not EZ CD Creator.

[HeavnlyStr]

I used nero 5.5, but now I upgrade to 5590.