cant seem to get divx to dvd working right

[sexy_penguin]

i know theres like a hundred of these posts and i tried looking but didnt find anything that could help. im trying to re-encode my anime and put them onto dvd's. for all my previous divx2dvd encodes ive loaded them into vitrualdub, then saved the audio as wav and then made a silent avi. then i re-encoded the wav file to mp2 and put it and the silent avi into tmpegenc and encoded it and then authored and they work fine, but when i try to do my anime after i encode them to mpeg, the audio is about 3-4 seconds slow. ive tried to encode it lots of different ways other then above. it plays fine when i download it, it plays and loads in virtualdub with no errors. i dont know what to do about it. i rendered it in gspot and its a divx4 codec for the video and came up with "(S) --> AVI Splitter --> MPEG Layer-3 Decoder --> (R)" for the audio. ive tried all i can think of, ive also tried dvd2svcd. any help would be greatly appreciated. also this isnt just with anime, some of the other non-anime avi's i have do this too, yet others dont. thank you so much for your help it really means a lot. in the mean time ill keep looking for an answer.

[VCDHunter]

Have you tried just loading the avi into TMPGenc and let it do an encode of both audio and video ? If that fails, extract an uncompressed wav using vdub, and use that as your audio source in TMPGenc.

I notice above that your ripping the wav then encoding to mp2 then putting that into TMPGenc, its a step too far if you ask me. Just load the wav file as your audio source in TMPGenc.

EDIT - are you using vdub mp2 freeze ? Vanilla vdub doesn't like mp3 vbr audio, it throws up an error message when you load the video up.

[redwudz]

I have been trying out 'TheFilmMachine'. It's worked well converting XVID's to DVD. Very easy to use, similar to DVD2SVCD. You might give it a try. No sync problems so far.

[timmyp]

VCDHunter is exactly right. Your problem is most likely coming from the extra encode.

All you need to do is extract the audio to .wav format with VDub, then load the original avi into TMPGEnc as the video source and the wav file as the audio source and away you go.

If you still have sync problems after this, then you may have some bad frames in your avi. This is a known issue and there are a couple of different solutions you can try if this turns out to be the case. So post back with your results after trying the suggested TMPGEnc method.

Good luck.

[sexy_penguin]

yeah ive tried those options before and ive still gotten the out of sync audio, ill try the film machine later today. ive also used vdub to check and remove bad frames and then done the encoding and no matter what i do it doesnt seem to work. ive just been using regular vdub. but it doesnt put up an error when i open the file.

[hobojester]

I'm gonna try FilMachine today. Looks interesting. Are there any other good little gems out there like that?

[timmyp]

>yeah ive tried those options before and ive still gotten the out of sync audio
> ive also used vdub to check and remove bad frames and then done the encoding

Just to be sure, you could/should run the avi through divfix as well. I've had situations where VDub did not detect errors, but divfix did. I don't have an explanation for that, but it has happened.

I suspect that any program you use to convert is going to have sync errors with this particular avi until you figure out.

[Matt D]

TMPGEnc does have the option to either make your audio play sooner or later to compensate for audio sync problems. Used it myself to fix audio that was off by 13 seconds.
It's called "Audio gap correct" under the advanced tab, inside the "Source Range" option.