Should the audio and video times match in DvD Lab?

[janeydoll]

when separating the video and audio in DVD Lab, the times do not always match up, I have to do the audio delay and fix it which works.

Now my question is, should the times ALWAYS match up if nothing is wrong with the disc? I had like 6-8 discs that I found out tiled and glitched so I wondered if ANY disc that the times did not match on was also a glitchy disc or if it is normal for the times to not match sometimes?

I have quite of few where the times match perfectly, so i just need to know if the ones that don't match mean something is wrong, or just simply do the audio delay and move on.

thanks so much
please reply soon, i am working on them now.

[Pinstripes23]

Now my question is, should the times ALWAYS match up if nothing is wrong with the disc? I had like 6-8 discs that I found out tiled and glitched so I wondered if ANY disc that the times did not match on was also a glitchy disc or if it is normal for the times to not match sometimes?

I've had some not match up and they came out fine. But just because they don't match up doesn't mean you should always set an audio delay.

[janeydoll]

by the way, it is a retail set that I am trying to back up for archiving, i was just making a different menu for them, that is when i noticed the glitches on a few and then the times being way off.

i just want to know if having the times off means there is some glitches somewhere or if it can be just a normal thing and to just fix the audio delay and move on?

thanks

[janeydoll]

the ones that I fixed the delay on, the audio WAS WAY OFF after I burned it, that is how I knew I needed to fix the delay. There are a few that did not match, but the audio was fine so I didn't fix it, there was nothing to fix.

[aedipuss]

to check an audio delay from a commercial dvd with dvdlab, drag the first movie vob file to assets/tell it not to demux/click on the icon above assets that's a red bar green bar arrows(audio delay)/ and it will report the exact delay needed in milliseconds. some dvds are made with the delay.

[Pinstripes23]

i just want to know if having the times off means there is some glitches somewhere or if it can be just a normal thing and to just fix the audio delay and move on?

thanks

It can be just a normal thing, unless your ripping methods are not sound. How did your rip the originals?

[janeydoll]

dvd shrink was how i ripped it, and yes i know how to fix the audio delay, i just wanted to know if it is not uncommon for some to have a delay and others match perfectly.

I had a few that the times were off, but then i found out that they had glitches on a few episodes, so i thought maybe the times being off was the way you knew if it glitched, but if it is common for some episodes to have the audio delay then I won't worry about it. sometimes just one episode has the delay, the rest of the episodes are fine. One discs has like 1 hour delay on 2 out of 4 episodes, but I fixed it.

i just wondered if times not matching means something is wrong with the episode/disc, like glitches, ect.?

thanks so much

[Pinstripes23]

i just wondered if times not matching means something is wrong with the episode/disc, like glitches, ect.?

thanks so much

When you are authoring with DLP it shouldn't. Are these glitches only when you watch on a standalone or when you watch the authored DVD on a PC with something like MPC or PowerDVD? If they aren't glitchy when you watch on a PC before you burn, then it is more likely the media or standalone or both.

[janeydoll]

the glitches that I have seen are there on anything i play it in. I believe there are like maybe 6-8 that I have actually seen the glitches, kinda like tiling for a second or 2 but they do not freeze.

the rest of the discs, have atleast a few episodes if not all that the times do not match, as for if they have glitches I have not seen any, but that i why i wondered it when the times do not match that means something is wrong.

I do have some discs of this set that the times match perfect on every episode.

[janeydoll]

by they way, i am using dvd lab studio

[Pinstripes23]

but that i why i wondered it when the times do not match that means something is wrong.

I wouldn't make the conclusion that

DVDLab audio/video times don't match = glitchy playback everytime

[janeydoll]

I also have had a few shows that i record off tv that when i put them in dvd lab, their times don't match, although sometimes there is no AUDIO DELAY so i just leave it alone.

[Pinstripes23]

Yea like I said above just cuz they don't match doesn't mean you always need an audio delay. It all depends on your source files.

[janeydoll]

now, is there a reason why you would have to always separate the audio and video, could i just leave them together? i thought one time i heard you must always separate them, but i really cant remember the reason why

[Pinstripes23]

I do it for compliancy, so I always import assets into DVDLab Pro as elementary streams. I dunno how DVDLab treats already-muxed mpeg as I have never done it, but I KNOW that DLP will mux/author separated elementary streams into compliant VOBS.