DIVX audio fine, SVCD audio out of sync

[oswald57]

Hi,

I am trying to convert a DIVX movie into a SVCD. I used TMPGENC for the converting, VirtualDub for the sound extraction, VCDImageGUI for the bin/cue creation, and Nero for the burning. The DIVX avi was done with DIVX 5.05 and the Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 audio codec according to the properties of that file and the movie runs fine.

In VirtualDub, when I open the file, I get that vbr warning but I continued on. After extracting the audio, I assigned that audio file in TMPGENC as the audio file to merge. Since the movie was more than 80 minutes, I split it. Then I set the output screen to Full Screen - aspect ration 1:1 so I can keep the widescreen format and I created the MPG file. When I played the MPG file, the audio was out of sync. I don't know exactly where it starts to go out of sync because I didin't catch this on the first CD but on the second. I played the first CD for a few minutes and there wasn't anything wrong with it. Last night, I checked the end of the first CD and that's when I found out it was out of sync on the first one.

So here are my questions:

Is it something that I did wrong? Was it that vbr warning from VirtualDub because it said to decompress it which I thought I did so I can use it for TMPGENC? Is there a relatively painless way to fix it? Is the method I used a good way of converting Divx to SVCD?

Any answers/suggestions/recommendations would be appreciated.

Windows 98SE
1.6 Ghz Pentium 5
512 MB of RAM
ATI Radeon 8500
Creative SB Audigy
Yamaha CRW2100SZ burner

Thanks.

Jim

[ZippyP.]

Extract your audio from the avi with Goldwave, just load it and save. Start Vdub, load the avi then under audio>wav audio and select your new wav file. Play the file in Vdub, move the slider around and check it in different parts for sync. If the audio is out by a fixed amount it can be adjusted in Vdub under audio>interleaving>adjust audio delay. If you made any audio adjustment then set audio and video to direct stream copy and save avi. Use the new avi as your source for TMPGEnc. If it's OK and you don't need to make any adjustments then just quit vdub and proceed like usual.

Oh...and be sure to scan for bad frames first, see below.

[oswald57]

That seemed to do the trick and there weren't any bad frames.

Thanks.