Annoying Desynchronisation Problems

[bedev]

OK i am runing into annoying problems when burning DVD.
I am using Ulead DVD MF2. According to MF2, the files are DVD COMPLIANT, and DON'T require any conversion before they burn.

specs are:

MPEG-2 Video
352x576 @ 25FPS @ 1600VBR Bitrate
MP2 audio @ 160KB/s

Now when i burn the files, it plays them ok, but as the movie goes further along, the audio gets further out of sync with the video.

I find this unusual, because it happens to all files i use, and ALL these files are playing PERFECTLY in sync on the computer, however after burning them with MF2 and playing them on a standalone, they are coming out totally out of sync. Burner is an A05, and player is a DV535K, media is Pioneer DVD-RW.

Obviously it seems that some problem is occuring during the AUDIO/VIDEO MULTIPLEXING stage of MF2.


Can someone refer me to another program that can do animated menu's and chapters, because i am running into continued problems with MF2.

Any ideas??

[bedev]

ANYONE?

[Findail]

I don't have any help to offer on this, but am experiencing the same problem using Ulead MF2 Demo trying to put some VCDs of tv shows onto a DVD. Every single one of them goes out of sync.

All of my clips are fine when played in WinDVD, but after DVD is burned all start in sync and gradually go out of sync.

I'm using a Pioneer A05 burner as well, P4 2.4, 512 ram, WinXP Pro.

All the clips are Mpeg1 352x240 1150kbps, with the audio already converted to 48khz 16bit stereo at 224kbps, and I've selected "Don't convert compliant Mpeg files" in MF2.

[D-Ran]

I can help you. the probem is the files you have are mpeg-2, but aren't trully dvd format. they're svcds. mf2 wants to reconvert it to dvd format which is 720x480 and a bitrate between 2000kbps and 8000 kbps and it sucks at converting files. What you need to do is go to the tools section and find TMPGEnc and download the free demo.TMPGEnc is one of the best decoders around if not the best. when you use tmpgenc, set it up with layer 2 audio and then just set it up with a resolution of 720x480 and the highest bitrate you can get while keeping the file under 4.2 gigs.also , if you are converting a downlaoded movie that is wide-screen, you'll need to set the video arange methode to KEEP ASPECT RATIO under expert settings.now remember the bitrate you selected to convert at because under mf2 , you'll need to setup a template under template manager that has the exact same bitrate as you used to convert the movie.mf2 shouldn't try to convert the movie now and will nove on to audio/video mutiplexing and burning and it will have no skips so long as the converted file has no skips(and i wont with tmpgenc).now tmpgenc does take a long time to convert movies but the wait is worth it in the quality you will get. just start converting those really big movies before you go to sleep and let it run over night. hope this was helpfull to you.reply if you have any questions.

[A1Rockhound]

I've got another question for anyone who can help !

I'm trying to put a downloaded AVI file on to DVD-R, I've converted it with TMPGenc to MPEG1 as D-Ran mentioned in his guide but however MF2 somehow takes a 743mb file and takes it 4.7gb on a bitrate setting of 4000kbps and 2500kbps i've tried them both and the results are the same is there anyway possible to get these files to go on a DVD-R?

If so can someone please tell me the settings for them?

[Specialist]

A1Rockhound,

Have you really converted your source .AVI to MPEG-1?

Why not convert to a DVD standard format such as MPEG-2?

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[ecguevarra]

I have was having many problems with this as well. One thing that I discovered was that if there is any spots in the original avi file where the video freezes and the audio continues or vice versa you will always get a non-synced result even if you de-multiplex and re-encode before converting to DVD format with MF2. When I watch the entire file first to check for errors then use tmpgenc to de-multiplex to m2v+m2 files and input these files into mf2 it always works and turns out with good quality.

[A1Rockhound]

Thx guys, I've will try your suggestions and see what happens with it, it's probably something stupid that I'm missing.