Lipsynch & Dazzle DVC2

[Earlawnde]

Am making decent SVCDs with my Dazzle DVC2, despite Moviestar being less than brilliant, and idiosyncratic. However, The lipsynch gets worse as my production progresses.
My system is a Gateway Performance 500
Intel Pentium 3, 500MHZ
128MB SDRAM
Am considering upgrading my processor, but wonder whether this will cure the lip synch problems?
Any comments?

[oldfart13]

This is typical of low end Mpeg-2 encoders that don't have video and audio locked in hardware. I have an ADS Instant DVD and it does the same thing on almost every cap on my PIII 1GHz system. I was going to look into the Snazzi III USB 2.0 capture box since it supposedly has hardware lock for audio and video. You might find a solution on this site or on the DVCII forums.

[Agent 0008]

I don't know if this will help but it's something I ran into this weekend. I was trying to make a SVCD with DVDmoviefactory and the sound was quite right, I finally noticed that the sound was being captured at something like 8 bit or something like that, anyway once I adjusted the sound to CD quality it matched and worked just fine. Something like 16bit 41 Mhz? I'd have to go back and check.

[CryptKeeper]

16bit 44.1khz :)

[D_Knife]

With the Dazzle DVC2 for screen playback it uses CPU decoding
i.e. it only has a hardware encoder not decoder.
If you want to upgrade your CPU - go for it! Will it improve you dazzle captures? NO

buy yourself a cheap TV set with composite in. Get a cheap splitter cable from Radioshack or anywhere that sells them.
Modify the Dazzle capture templates to turn OFF video preview.

This will change you CPU usage from 100% while capping down to 12% while capping!! A small difference - yes?
Not only that but you get a better video preview as the dazzle preview is really awful.

See my profile - I have a DVC 2 and did have this problem. Since getting a small TV - I use a cheap , ancient AMIGA monitor!!! for my video previews I have had ZERO problems. It takes up a tiny amount of desk space and works perfectly.

I can now cap full frame DVD at 8000Kbps while playing a MP3 file, downloading from a newsgroup and burning a CD, all while keeping perfect audio sync.
Oh and I recently switched to making CVD (spelt correctly) at 48Khz audio and they work fine as well.

[leebo]

Go here and all your DVC II questions will be answered:

http://stop.at/dazzle2