Divx to SVCD (sync problems...)

[Dwight]

I've tried converting a DIVX avi to SVCD with very little success.

The scan for bad frames on VDUB says 0 bad frames + zero
good frames but undecodable ?? I have tried saving
a new AVi in VDUB, I have tried frameserving, I have tried
saving WAV first , but STILL the encoded file becomes
around 5 secodns longer and the 5 seconds are gradual sync
errors in the video, which cannot be fixed easily...if I fix
the sync of the first 5 minutes...the next 5 will still be off sync
and the next 5 will be off sync and so forth. This is really tricky..
I have also tried DIVXFix and so forth..no luck. I could not figure
a clear pattern to how the file goes off sync...but it really really
is way off sync at the end...like 5 seconds..and I don't notice anything wrong with the video and so forth.

The file plays normally as DIVX and is 100% in sync.
Any ideas or methods left to try after having done
pretty much EVERYTHING to get it right and failed :S

Or should I divide the DIVX into sections of 5 minutes (chapters) ?
is this really a good idea though and then encode and fix if necessary.

[ZippyP.]

What type of audio is in the avi? What's the frames per second of the avi, is it standard? Not sure, check with Vdub, gspot or avicodec.

You can try extracting a wav file with Goldwave (load the avi then save) or avi2wav. If necessary, Goldwave can stretch the audio of the wav file to fit by using the time warp function.

Total frames / frames per second = total video length in seconds

Plug that into time warp to stretch the audio.

[Dwight]

Thanks, that does the trick and the audio is in sync, but
I tested the file with GWave and Cool Edit and
the stretching introduces quite an annoying distortion
type of sound to the highs of the audio.