DivX Capture - Boggling!

I am having the strangest problem. I captured some VHS footage using DivX 5.0.5 and VirtualDub's capture. When I play the capture, everything is great. I wanted to convert it into a VCD, though.

First I tried to convert the file straightaway using TMPGEnc. The audio gradually slipped out of sync, such that the video cut off about 5 seconds of the ending audio. So...

Next I tried to separate the audio from the video using VirtualDub. Check out the lengths of both...identical. Then used TMPGEnc. Same result.

Something told me that I should check the audio file, so I did. The recording was the same length as the video. I went to the end of the recording. It was missing the same 5 seconds!

How can I be saving the WAV from a fully functional video and VirtualDub cuts the end of it off like TMPGEnc would?!?

As a solution, I can open the audio, manual record the missing part, paste the two together, resample it at like 44.2 kHz, then encode it. What a mess though!

Can anyone think of a simpler way of fixing this problem, or better yet correcting the problem at the source so the audio isn't cut off?

Thanks!

[mats.hogberg]

Could it be that the VCD (template?) you're trying to create has a frame rate different from the captured AVI?

/Mats

I wouldn't think so. I captured at 29.97 (or whatever the NTSC VCD standard is). Still that shouldn't have any effect on the VirtualDub - Save to WAV function.

[whatever]

Maybe you should try to cutoff the last 5 seconds of the avi in virtual dub?

[mats.hogberg]

OK! I didn't see that - the audio is off in the AVI too. What happens if you capture in another format (like huffyuv)? Real time DivX capture/encoding seems like requiring a pretty hot box, and it may be that your system can't handle the load?

/Mats

I thought about that. It can't be my computer (2.66GHz P4 with GeForce). I don't have any experience with other codecs, simply because I haven't had a need to use anything but DivX and MPEG. I will give that a shot though. I am pretty sure I have it on my computer.

I was able to get a copy of Sound Forge 6 and it is fantastic at resampling and time fitting. So if I can't figure it out, I will use it as a back-up.