MPG -> AVI sync loss

[Atomic Dog]

OK, I downloaded some MPGs and I want to resize them and make them into .AVIs. Now, usually this isn't a problem, but with these particular MPGs, I can't seem to get any good final products.

I load the MPG into VirtualDUB, turn on a resize filter, compress the video with DivX 5.0, compress the audio with LAME, and the finished product ALWAYS ends up out of sync. And I can't figure out why. Any other MPG I compress works just fine. I capture/compress all the time, and it's only happening now that I'm using a downloaded file. And it's not EVERY downloaded file either, sometimes they work, others they don't.

I've tried a whole bunch of stuff... I've tried matching the audio/video durations under the Frame Rate tab, I've tried resizing them in TMPG and then going to VirtualDUB, I've tried splitting the audio, compressing it with another program, and rejoining it with the compressed video, I've tried splitting apart the MPG and messing with those files individually... nothing has worked.

Anyone have ANY ideas? I'm guessing the problem HAS to be with the .mpg file (since ordinarily, I never have any problems), but I don't know what to do about it. I've looked about the site, but haven't found anything that really targets my problem. The files are 20min shows that I got off of Kazaa.

Any help is appreciated.

[Tommyknocker]

And did you search the video for bad frames, and did you synch the video to the audio? I did not read these facts in your post.

[Atomic Dog]

Just searched, and no bad/undecodable frames.

And I tried the Change so Audio and Video Durations Match under Video>Frame Rate. It didn't work. Is there another way to sync them that I don't know about?

[Atomic Dog]

Tried a few more remedies... Outputted to AVI using TMPC, tried converting it to VBR/MVBR/CQ with TMPG, tried removing and reinstalling my codecs, unfortunately I can't seem to dice WMP9 because I use XP (if aynone knows how to get rid of 9.0, that information would also be appreciated!) still nothing worked.

Anyone have ANY ideas?