Problem encoding TNG - Unification.

[James_T_Kirk]

The episode starts with a msg that say "Gene Roddenberry 19xx-19xx", there is no sound during this part when you play back the video. the sound starts right after that when you play the file back , but when you load it into virtualDUB it reports that the audio has an improper VBR rate and that it will rewrite the audio header to make it standard.

When it is loaded in virtualdub the audio starts right away throwing the whole video out of sync -

When I try to encode with TMPGenc it makes the audio start right away also - makign it impossible to encode the video with synced sound -

Does anyone know of a way to encode thsi video to mpeg2 and keep synced sound

[wulf109]

Why not just frame serve with DVD2AVI and create a .d2v and .wav file?
Why does VirtualDub enter the picture?

[James_T_Kirk]

I have never used that program - but did some digging - on AVIs(which I didn't know) you can make the audio start at a certain time. but when you encode it it starts the audio stream at the same time as the video stream. I need to figure out a way to make the audio start at the right time

[wulf109]

DVD2AVI frameserves the vob files to a very small .d2v file,about 200Kb and .wav file if you tell it to decode audio. This takes about 10 minutes. These files can be opened and encoded in Tmpeg,there's really no reason to encode your vob's into .avi's.
DVD2AVI is available in the Tools section of this website. Most people would use DVD2AVI to convert a ripped DVD to VCD/SVD.

[kitty]

TMPGenc allows time shifting a pesky audio track by a certain # of milliseconds under advanced options (audio edit).

[easydvd]

you can also enter a timed millisecond delay with BeSweet. Cool thing about that one is audio encoding lst-->>wav straight from the ac3

[James_T_Kirk]

Do you all know of a good player that will tell me the exact millisec I need to delay it - I use WMP to play the avi but it only gives me the time in seconds - not milliseconds - im sure seconds isn't presice enough

[easydvd]

1000 milliseconds = 1 second.Trust you eyes and ears to make the delay, I have I'm not sure but I think v-dub will give you an "audio pre-load" or "audio skew" time in the file information.