improper vbr makes it out of synch once put on disc

[lingoguysw5]

I get this error msg with one of my XVID file "improper audio VBR" which results in it being WELL OUT of synch when I direct- stream it with Virtualdub and then burn onto disc with nero. I don't want to make a mpeg file as I can watch it on disc through my (divx) dvd player ( a lot quicker ) Is there a guide to encode it properly. I've looked at either ideas but those are for people who want to make DVDs unlike myself but just a xvid file to put onto disc and then watch on tv. Any ideas. Please step forward thanks alot.

[mats.hogberg]

What are you doing with VirtualDub, if you have an XviD file, and just direct stream it?

/Mats

[johns0]

If you still have sync problems with the avi check my guide,it has a section for this type of problem.

[lingoguysw5]

Well normally hogberg with this Xvid compression I would just click direct stream for both audio and video direct stream and save it as an avi file but with the error message improper vbr I can't do this without putting itout of synch. That's why I feel I must extract audio/video separately and then somehow put them back together.

[mats.hogberg]

In effect, direct streaming does nothing at all, besides saveing a new version of the same file. What's wrong with your original AVI, that forces you to run it thru VirtualDub?

/Mats

[lingoguysw5]

I have solved it now. But to answer your question hogberg the original would have been out of synch on disc so to solve it I had to extract the .wav and use full processing, unlike direct stream as I did the first time lol, and that way I was able to merge the audio and video and save as an avi file.

[mats.hogberg]

So the prob with the original is that your player doesn't like AVIs with VBR audio?

/Mats

[lingoguysw5]

It would seem so mats.hogberg. But it does warn you that some audio files might end up askew. To be quite honest I really don't understand what VBR is. Ibelieve my audio was MP3 Frauenhofer, well that is what the virtualdub info indicated. I actually converted the .wav audio with besweet to reduce the audio size which after FP reached over 1GB. Anyway we are all happy now.