XVID to DVD......Sound problems

[jrenfro]

I have a XVID movie with AC3 audio in 2 files so I joined them in VirtualDub and it plays fine. I have used CCE, TMPGENC, and Ulead DVD MovieFactory to convert this movie into a DVD format. I can get the video into DVD format but if I do the audio and video together in the encode the picture comes out all messed up or plays way too fast. If I do just the video and no audio it plays just fine. I used PowerDVD to play the VOB files. Something I also noticed is in Ulead DVD MovieFactory, I can add the AVI as video but it gets no audio from the file. So I used Goldwave and saved off the audio in PCM format. But when I choose replace audio and choose the WAV file, it goes to encode it and shows that it needs some messed up number for space to do this. Usually it is a big number like 1139803.6 with no GB or MB behind it. If I try to encode it, it tells me there is not enough space available. I have a 100 GB hard drive with about 40 GB free so this should be no problem. Do I need to do something else with the audio first? Help me please!

[tompearson]

load your avi into Virtualdub, save out the uncompressed wave with the extension .AC3. Vdub will put a .wav extension on this. In explorer delete the .wav extension and run the file through Headac3e. This will convert the file to a true wave. Use this as your audio in Tmpgenc and encode.

Any probs with the Xvid video save out under full compression and use 4.12 codec. You lose a little quality this way, but as Xvid is superior it will be DVD quality.

Hope this helps

Tom

[jrenfro]

Ok I got the files encoded but has I was watching it I noticed the sound getting ahead of the video a little so I fast forwarded to 30 minutes into the movie and the sound was getting farther off from the video. Any suggestions on keeping the sound and video in sync? The movie was 23.97 fps in XVID format and after encoded into .m2v file it is still 23.97 fps NTSC interlaced.