DivX avi's straight to 2 VCds with Nero

[fiiido]

I have a number of DivX avi's. When converting to mpg for VCD burning I get sync problems using TMPGEnc.

I was wondering if I tried to burn the DivX movie straight to VCD using Nero whether that would cure it. The question I have is how is Nero configured to split the movie onto 2 VCDs? and it so can I add an overlap?

Thanks

[Craig Tucker]

Does the divx file have an audio stream which is encoded with a variable bitrate, this will cause sync problems when encoding. Open the file in vdub, it will probrably give a warning about VBR audio. Select audio full processing mode and set compression to no compression. Then save the wav file. Use this wav file as your audio source in tmpgenc, this should cure the sync problem. I do not recomend encoding with Nero it is nowhere near as good as TMPGEnc.

[fiiido]

that particular avi does not come up with the VBR error in Vdub. Other avi's have and I do separate out to a wav file and encode using TMPGEnc the 2 files. Still causes sync problems

[Craig Tucker]

Are you saying that the sync problems are there with every file you have tried saving the wav out in vdub or just this one.

[Duminas]

Just a small suggestion:

- Grab the audio from the AVI in VirtualDub (Even if it's not VBR encoded) and save it as a WAV.
- Get something to convert it to the correct format for VCD's audio (MPEG1 Layer II @ 224kbps:44.1khz I think).
- Encode that AVI as you normally would in TMPGEnc. The sync problems will still be there. But we're not done yet.
- Go to the MPEG Tools of TMPGEnc and click Simple Demultiplex. Click the MPG file that you just made and then put the audio and video out to the two files it shows.
- Go to the MPEG Tools again, and select Multiplex. Add the VIDEO file (.m2v, probably), and the audio file you grabbed and converted from VirtualDub.
- Click Run and it should be fixed.

Works for me :)

[sctele]

Duminas,

Why don't you submit that as a sort of guide. I know that this will help a lot of people who have sync problems. This way people can just search for your guide instead of having to wait for someone to solve their problem.