Strange difference in playback

[blank_dog]

I've just had my first attempts at adding menus (main and 1 chapter menu) to a SVCD.

Everything looks great, menu works great. But the strange thing is that when I play the disc on my standalone DVD player (Apex AD-1200), the sound lags by about half a second right from the start of the disc. It does not get any further apart during the length of the disc.

This disc plays fine and is in-sync when playing on the PC with WinDVD.

It must be something to do with the menu, as when I burn the straight SVCD with no menu system, it plays great on my standalone DVD player.

Anyone come across this at all ??

bd.

[BigBobOZ]

Yep just did come across your problem. Just experimented with Menus and chapters thought it was all pretty cool until I found out the audio was delayed by about half a second. Plays fine in my PC.

I haven't found any solutions anywhere, and the only thing I can think of is to advance the audio by half a second. But that's a crap work around I would rather not do!

I'll let you know if I find something.

[blank_dog]

OK, I appear to have solved this one for SVCD's. It was driving me nuts

Here's what you have to do:

1. Create a wav file that is 1 second in length (I used Soundforge)
2. Open TMPGEnc and load the SVCD template.
3. Load the menu.mpg that you are using for the menu
4. Load the 1 second wav file
5. Create a SVCD mpeg file with TMPGEnc.
6. Use this mpeg file instead of the menu.mpg you were using as the new-menu.mpg.

I have tested this for PAL and NTSC. On WinDVD and my standalone Apex DVD player. Sound and video is now in sync for all.

Don't ask me why it works, but it does

bd.

[BigBobOZ]

Will give it a try! I had given up on the idea.

[robz]

yep same with me and remember it being far worse when menus were used. and with camcorder footage or dvd backups. will try this fix if i can and let you know what happens.