Sound Problem ***PLEASE HELP!!****

[SHIMONEMF]

I recently got 'the good the bad and the ugly.avi' and twice now have attempted to encode it for vcd use.

The first time I used Tmpgec to encode to a single file (ended up around 860mb) to vcd standard (PAL) without ripping sound with another program, I also had 'motion search precision' set to high quality. The picture on the resulting MPG was fine but from the start the sound is a bit out of sync and by the second half its lagging way behind the picture

On My second attempt, I first used Virtual Dub to rip the sound to a Wave file and loaded it up in tmpeg for encoding. I noticed in 'file information' at the frame size box it stated 29,970fps so in tmpgec I loaded the VCD NTSC templete. Still after all that (and another 3 hours!!!) no joy atall

The AVI itself is fine with no problems, ive no idea why this is happening, is there a name for it?

Thanks for taking the time to read, Im really puzzled with this one as im a bit of a newbie to this, any helpwould be brilliant

[mujahid7ia]

put the AVI thru g-spot codec info app. and state the specs...

try toolame for audio encoding, after DL-ing it, in tmpgenc go to options> audio engine and for mpeg layer 2 encoding external decoder point to toolame.exe

dont worry about the wave fps, it will be re-encoded anyway

hope this helps

[SHIMONEMF]

Used AVIcodec to get specs which are as follows:-

File : 667 MB (667 MB), duration: 1:24:33, type: AVI, 1 audio stream(s), quality: 62 %

Video : 589 MB, 975 Kbps, 29.970 fps, 624*272 (2.21:1), DIV3 = DivX v3 MPEG-4 (Low-Motion), Supported

Audio : 77 MB, 127 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = MPEG Layer-3, Supported


Im away to try what you said and if these specs help you know what the prob is even better! thanks for your help

[mujahid7ia]

Well, I'm not all that knowledgeable on this stuff...

The avi is fine, so it's probably TMPGEnc's built in MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoder that is causing problems. It is known to cause problems. A forum search will show you some of those probs. 8)
Toolame can probably do it faster + smaller audio filesize + maybe get rid of sync problem.

It's kind of weird how it started lagging a lot more in the second half of the movie (attempt 1), if the audio was just out of sync, i would think that it would be the same 'out of sync' (xx ms) the whole time...

if anyone else knows about this....

[honorarybrutha]

scan for and remove bad frames from the .avi file first with vdub mp3 freeze before you try to encode. guide for doing this is to your left on this page.

[ZippyP.]

scan for and remove bad frames from the .avi file first with vdub mp3 freeze before you try to encode. guide for doing this is to your left on this page.

Or in my sig.