I am in the process of getting a VHS-to-DVD system up and running. I am using a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 to capture straight to MPEG2 using Ulead DMF as the capture program.

I am seeing rough spots on the source VHS tape cause dropped frames in the captured MPEG -- no surprise there. However, most media players and editors (WMP, winamp, MPEG-VCR, nanoPEG, Ulead DMF) seem to have no problem playing through the dropped frames and remain in sync afterwards. Unfortunately, I have really come to like TMPGEnc DVD Author as an authoring tool, and it is one of the few tools that drops sync after playing through the "rough spot". I tried using that PAStrumento thingy once but it really loused up the audio (user error, I'm sure -- I only gave it one quick try).

The Pegasys web site offers the following cryptic piece of advice on their FAQ page regarding audio sync problems in DVD Author:

"In case of audio synchronization problem, we advise to re-encode the source file using an MPEG editor software.
Since version 2.520, TMPGEnc Plus include the same CRI MPEG decoder than TMPGEnc DVD Author and therefore sound problem will certainly occures too. To avoid this, disable the CRI decoder in the VFAPI plug-in and enable the MPEG-2 decoder from Cyberlink or Ligos used until 2.513.
Such decoders have to be isntalled on the computer to be used."

Can anyone decrypt this for me, or offer other words of advice?

- jeff