DIVX to DVDR

[fmb2000]

Can anybody help. I have been converting DIVX to SVCD for a while, but recently I got my hands on a DVD-R and I am looking to copy the DIVX to this. I followed the instructions in the guides but I the audio is out of sync. I have listed below the steps I took.

Extracted wav file (48000Hz) using VirtualDub. I had to decompress the file before (virtualdup could not read it). when converting to SVCD i use 44000Hz but I was told that DVD should be 48000???

Loaded TMPGENC and loaded avi and wav file selected start and end range. changed advanced to full screen (keep ratio) and converted. This took about three hours. When it had finished I played it on the PC player and the audio was out. I tried selecting the avi file for the audio, but when I did that I got no sound.

I also tried DVDIT which appeared not to need converting, but that fell over after about 3/4 hours.

any help would be appreciated. This seems to be taking over my life at the moment.


What I am do

[tobez]

did you find out how todo this, im trying to do divx and xvid to dvdr but no luck yet

[djbenz]

Sounds like you've done it correctly. I've done a dozen DiVX to DVD-R conversions this way with no problems whatsoever.

1. Open avi in Vdub. Select 'Audio' --> Full processing mode, 'Compression' --> No compression (PCM), 'Conversion' --> 48000Hz (Or 'no change' if the DiVX already has 48000Hz audio)
'File' --> Save WAV

2. Open Files in TMPGEnc, original avi as video source, new WAV as audio. I don't ever use 'Source Range' as I convert the whole movie.

3. Make sure you save as MPEG, and don't split the audio & video streams to separate files.

Things to watch : Is the original avi in synch? Does the new mpg file go out of synch at a particular point, like when there's some glitchy pixels?

If the latter is the case, use AVI Fixed from http://www.divx-digest.com to fix the original avi before you start again 9saving WAV etc.)

DJ

[Bodman]

I tried this and got the same audio sync problems.....I got around this using Soundforge.

I extracted the audio from the DIVX using virtual dub (no processing).
opened in soundforge and selected resample to 48Khz.
Saved as WAV
then converted Wav to MP2 using Besweet.

the resulting MP2 file I imported into my DVD Auth package and it was in Sync no probs. ( I actually then converted this to AC3 in Scenarist....but thats just me....

//Bodman

[fmb2000]

Thanks for the advice I will retry it again.

Bodman... Which DVD Authoring tool are you using. Do you still use TMPGENC or does the authoring tool do the conversion.
Why do you convert the file to AC3??

Does you authoring tool ask for the video and audio separate.

[Bodman]

Hi,
I actually use CCE encoder to do the encoding. The Auth tools I use are Scenarist and Maestro if its a simple one. Yes they both ask for the Audio and Video Seperate. I convert to AC3 using the built in AC3 converter in Scenarist, and the reason I do this is because the authuoring package reports that if you just use the MP2 audio that it doesnt completely comply with dvd specifications. Hope this help you


//Bodman