audio out of sync but didn't use to be!!! not a newbie ques

15th Aug 2003 09:30 #1

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Ok... WHY NOW!!??!?!? I'm going nutz here!

I've got the whole convert to dvd from avi/mpg thing down pretty good. I've done quite a few conversions using TMPGEnc for the video and extracting the audio with Goldwave and converting with Besweet to AC3 (use to have sound quality issue converting but got that fixed).... and everything has worked out perfectly. I do most of the conversions at half D1 (352x480) and again all the audio converted into wav then into AC3.

Everything has worked great.... DVD's play all the way through with audio 100% in sync from beginning to end... UNTIL now.

My main drive crashed so I had to reload WinXP Pro. Since then things are going haywire. I've gotten the codecs I need and no extras... or rather did have just the ones I need... I thought it could be a codec issue so I removed all installed Codecs then installed Gordian Knot system pack. Before and after I did that I get video that plays with a sold blue tint when played in Winamp.. the video looks fine in Media Player BUT before the video plays MP tries to download a codec and fails... the file is a MPEG2 file so why is MP trying to DL a codec?

Ok back to the big problem.... half through everything I do now the audio gets out of sync seriously.. from 30 secs to 1 min. I'm using the same software.. the same settings. I can play back the original MPEG's after converting to SVCD fine with no problem.

And like always the audio is converted to 48k, the video is NTSC (and was NTSC from the source) done at 29.76 fps. I've ripped the audio as a wav with Goldwave like dozens of times before.

What could be missing on my system that is causing it to want to install codecs for MPEG2 files but then go ahead and play them with no problem? I have PowerDVD full version and removed and reinstalled it so the MPEG2 codec should be fine there like before my system crashed.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.