cutting with TMPGEnc

[PRD001]

Hi All,
For the last few months I have been capturing movies from TV in mpeg1 format and using TMPGEnc to split the capture file into two burnable size mpeg1(VCD) file with no problems. Recently my split files have developped audio sync problems (audio is late up to one second). The unsplit file(original capture file)works great and plays with no sync problems. I'm stuck on this one. What would make the process stop working. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

[asdf]

are you cutting your movies by going to file>mpeg tools or using the source range?

[PRD001]

I'm using the mpeg tolls option. The source option works fine when I'm ensoding from *.d2v and *.wav files. It's only when I'm splitting a larger mpeg1 file in two (for the purposes of burning) that I have the sync problem. The first few movies I split this way were perfect and then things changed to being out by about one second. I did a clean install over the weekend which seems to have reduces the sync difference however the difference is still there. I'm still fiddling to see if I can get back to being sync'd. if you have any ideas.......


thanks

[asdf]

dont know if you tried this yet but try cutting it with the source range option, or do the audio gap correct at the bottom of the source range window

[PRD001]

I did not realize that you could use the source range function if you were just processing one file. I tried it this morning andTMPGEnc is pretty intuitive and figured it out. The result is back in sync. Thank you for the help. Do you think there is a noticible difference between doing this on a normal video setting vs a high quality video setting??

[asdf]

sorry i dont know what you mean by high and normal video setting

[PRD001]

Under settings, in the video tab at the bottom there is a pull down menu which lets you choose your video quality. The better thw quality the longer the program runs. On a slow P3 (667Mhz) it will take me 8-10 hours to mutiplex a 2 hour movie at the highest quality setting and only 3-4 hours at the normal setting.

[asdf]

oh i've never messed around with that before. i always use normal. you can try and see if it does anything but i dont know much about it...

[energy80s]

Is this "Source Range Cutting" not just re-encoding the file?

[PRD001]

After experimenting last night...I think that you do get a little better quality by turning up the setting to a higher quality. It will take longer to to the file in that source range is actually re-multiplexing the file and it works slower when it is going from a mpeg1 file to a mpeg1 file as opposed to a 2dv file and a wav file to a mpeg1 file.

However it seems to split mpeg1 file without any sync problem more dependable than the file splitter option in the tools menu.

[SatStorm]

for multiplexxing and simply mpeg cut, a very good alternative is bbmpeg.
You can find it on the tools section of vcdhelp.com
There are also guides of hot to use the program

[PRD001]

I was aware that bbmpeg did multiplexing but not simple cutting. Its a program I've been meaning to try...thanks I let you know how it works.