Sync Problems still happens!

[hola99]

Lost of people looking on how to solve this problem and I am one of them. I follow the guides pretty much step by step. I used virtual dub then tmpeng then I burn with nero. But all the movies I encoded on my computer plays fine on it but on the dvd player I have a few slow images and or fast images with sound lagging. I cant really fix those bugs on the computer since when I play those movies on the computer no problemo.
BUt if I download a movie already as an mpeg then no problem. It seems to be when I encode from avi to mpeg that it doesnt work.
Any suggestions? I tried losts of things so far and i really am desperate to make those things work. ( i have the recent tmpgenc)
:P

[KingJohn]

When you use TMPGENC, it sounds like it is important for you to make sure you encode a fully compliant VCD mpeg. You only need to load a VCD template to do this and change nothing.

You should also make sure you use a CD-R that is right for your machine, higher quality ones like Maxell or TDK is a good starting point.

[hola99]

Ive done that. I pretty much follow the directions on this site (guides) but it still does not work. I tried different cd-r or cd-rw (i am in korea right now) like imation which I was told is very good, samsung, and 2-3 others brand. You told to try svcd....but tmpgenc only gives us 1 month to try it and I am over that is there a way that I can use a good freeware to try svcd?

[Ostaf]

what frame rate are you encoding at? what audio rate?

[KingJohn]

Ive done that. I pretty much follow the directions on this site (guides) but it still does not work. I tried different cd-r or cd-rw (i am in korea right now) like imation which I was told is very good, samsung, and 2-3 others brand. You told to try svcd....but tmpgenc only gives us 1 month to try it and I am over that is there a way that I can use a good freeware to try svcd?

Video-CD NTSC (MPEG-1 352x240 29.97fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)
or
Video-CD PAL (MPEG-1 352x288 25fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)

Right so your VCD is one of the above, have you tried decompressing the sound before you use it in TMPGEnc. I would say that any mpeg1 you made would be much better than anything you downloaded.

30 day limit, is there ?. Maybe you need to search for something to fix that faulty install you have

[hola99]

I use Vdub before tmpgenc. But still I dont se what I am doingwrong to get that problem.

[Wicked_Al]

Are you setting Full Processing mode in Vdub when you strip off the audio? If not, then try that.

Does Vdub compain about improperly encode audio? If so, then your Divx...if it is Divx most likely has VBR MP3, which sucks, but relatively consistent fixes has been explained in the forums.

I used to think this was BS, but burnspeed and quality of CDR does make a difference, especially when software players play your movie better than your standalone player.

Also, what bitrate are you encoding at? You may be out of spec for your player.

[Borgster]

Hi Hola99,

Two solutions :

1 Try separating the audio from video. i.e. make an audiofile uncompressed,44.1 KHz (you end up with file over 800 Mb). Check, after separating, if the length of the video file and the audio file are still the same!!
Load both files (audio + video) into TMPGEnc (Load according template!)

2 Frameserve the file from virtualdub to TMPGEnc.!! (works fine!)
See how to in "HOW TO" section.

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Then burn with NERO (attention: select NTSC or PAL in NERO)

Good luck,

Borgster.

[hola99]

I already do that... using v-dub uncompressed file then in tmpgenc audio is the file by v-dub and the video file but it still does that! I make compliant vcds and do not change specs!

[Wicked_Al]

Have you tried your discs in another player? Maybe you standalone doesnt handle (S)VCDs that well.

For example, my player doesn't seem to like Imation Professional grade, but other brands, even no name $.13/cd kind have no playback issues at all.

[KingJohn]

I already do that... using v-dub uncompressed file then in tmpgenc audio is the file by v-dub and the video file but it still does that! I make compliant vcds and do not change specs!

So your saying still, if you download an mpeg1 and burn, then this is OK, but if you make the same mpeg1 it wont work ?

Sounds to me you may have been trying different things, and are now making fully compliant mpeg1's. The only thing left is the quality of the disks you use.

[danman78]

I have this same problem from time to time - usually it is with svcd, true VCD's dont do that. You may just have a bad DVD player. Trying playing those bad disks on other DVD set top players to see if it is not just that the model you have does not work well.

[Whitey Smails]

I have the exact same problem as hola. I could download an mpg and burn it and it would play fine on my dvd player. But if I download a DIVX .avi...and convert it myself...following the instructions on this site to a tee using vdub and tmpgenc...the video will sometimes speed up a little in certain parts of the movie...or the audio will lag in certain parts of the movie. I have no clue what I'm doing wrong. I know it's not the discs I use or my dvd player. it's somethin' I'm doing wrong during the conversion process. I read somethin' about remuxing...what the hell is this and how do I go about doing it? Can anyone help me out with that...using like simple step by step instructions? Thanks.

[KingJohn]

Well maybe your expecting too much, during the process or making a DivX, fast moving scans or when the camera movies across the screen quickly, those frames are lots, so when they are compressed, quite a lot of them are cut out, depending on the DivX used it could make the whole thing very jerky.

Then there is bad AVI, converted with some bad frames can cause a lot of sync problems and skips, those skips can cause a spike that can make a DVD play "loose track"

Chances are the mpeg you downloaded was not converted from a DivX so may be a lot better ???

[Lil Krillin]

I have a similar problem, but when I go to extract my audio with vdub it complains about vbr and possible audio sync problems. Recently I've been told to try headac3he and stream with vdub, but I haven't tried it as of yet. Does this sound like a solution.