Fairuse worked fine, now it has audio sync issues (progressively worse)

[jerb2]

I've used Fairuse on MPEG-2 files for a few months w/ great results. I recently added 512 MB of RAM to the original 256 MB I had in this PC and since then when I attempt to encode, the video starts out fine then as it goes along the sync gets progressively worse. The videos I do are about 1 hr 25 min long and by the end of it, the sync is nearly 5 seconds off. I have read and searched all over and am really at a loss here...any help would be greatly appreiated...I'm tempted to take out this RAM chip whenever I have to encode...but that seems silly to me.

[guns1inger]

I would take the ram chip out for the moment to see if the problem goes away. I find it difficult to believe adding some extra ram would cause this problem, and if the ram is bad, you should see other symptoms.

[jerb2]

Tried it w/o the RAM chip and same problem. Defragging the hard drive right now...I hadn't had this drive long and but I've been converting a lot of large files on it and there was plenty of fragged space on the disk. Hopefully that will fix things.

[guns1inger]

What else might have changed at about the same time ?
Think about updates to drivers, codecs etc ?

What is your source ?
Have you changed the way you acquire it ?

All could be factors.

[jerb2]

Attempted w/ FU again after defrag w/ same bad results. Decided to give AutoGK a shot and after 15 hours (10 more then FU uses), the audio on that file came out correctly synced. The video is not quite as good as FU's other output files had been for me. I use a 720x640 MPEG-2 file for my input, but for whatever reason when I set AutoGK to the same output file size that I use for FU (900MB), it shrunk it down to 368X272, where FU always kept it above 500Xsomething. Any idea on how to keep the resolution up on AutoGK?

[SCDVD]

Have you recently added any codecs to your system? This might be the source of the problem. If not that, it is likely that some sort of change to your system is the culprit. These problems are sometimes difficult to find. It isn't likely that the problem is FairUse itself. It is a pretty proven and reliable piece of software.

[jerb2]

Perhaps a fresh install of Fairuse?

BTW, has anyone tried DIVX Author 1.0...I'm trying a trial of it right now...