XVID to DVD (anyone actually made this method work reliably)

[drewson99]

I have an XVID (640x272) absolutely gorgeous quality, plays perfect, audio is in perfect synch.

I stripped the wav and used fourcc to change the file to DIVX.

I used the DIVX as the video source and the wav as the audio in TMPGEnc.

After the encode... THE SYNCH WAS F*KD UP!

After long analysis, I realized that the audio was about -11 seconds off. So I used the audio gap correct in TMPGEnc.

So at the start of the resultant MPEG-2, the audio was now PERFECTLY SYNCHED!

BUT...

20 minutes in it was obviously getting out of synch fast.

Is this XVID to DVD thing a lost cause? I am beginning to think it is a waste of time.

[Gazorgan]

Doing XviD to SVCD ( mostly the same thing ) I would have problems from time to time. AC3 and VBR audio can be a pain. The biggest thing I can say is look at the length of the video and audio after you extract the WAV. If it doesn't match, then you didn't do it right.

I've had poor luck correcting the audio to match. I've had much better luck trying different extraction techniques. AVI2WAV has been especially good to me. Sometimes I dump the audio as wav and video as huffyuv, pull that resulting avi into TMPG and voila', no problems (assuming you have 40 GB to spare).

[myfogin]

I used to dread everytime I got an xvid ...tried all the suggestions etc etc and nothing worked in TMPGEnc--either picrue great and sound out of synch or in synch but picture had the occasional stutter catch up (you must know the one

I purchased Mainconcept based on some posts I read and bingo. I purposely look for xvids now.

Also and this is the best part...a full movie takes about 4-6 hrs on a pIII 600 mhz Dell (I average 3:1 encoding)

[drewson99]

awesome, what is the full name of the Mainconcept software?

are there any details I'll need with regard to the settings?

Thanks,

Andy

[rodonoghue]

i have done xvid to dvdr quite a few times. The way it works for me is to first check for bad frames which i use mp3vdub. Once you have a avi with no bad frames it should convert with tmpgenc quite easily (as long as the vfapi settings are fiddled about with - see the xvid to vcd guides)

Have a look here https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=150597 for the way that i have done about 20 films without problems

[Lancer]

i was having same problems but not anymore, i now rip wav file from movie. run besweet to convert it to mp2. Use CCE or TMPGEnc to conver video stream to your .m2v file. then use then use avi2mpeg to mux them back togther. This solved the audio sync problems for me. I think its something to do with the way avi2mpeg muxes it and lines up the I frames.

[plutolou]

If you could share some info on this Mainconcept software that would be great. If there is a program that works so well you actually want to find Xvids then it must be good. D@mn you Xvid (shakes fist in anger).

[sodium20]

lancer
hello can you please tell me how to mux using avi2mpg thanks