Hello all: I am trying to create an svcd and I am having serious sync issues. I run Linux, and have captured using dvgrab, converted using transcode and now I am trying to combine the streams for burning using mplex. Everything is fine, except that I can not adjust the time difference between the audio and video using the -O option like the manpage states. Here is the command I am using as well as the output:

mplex -f 5 -b 230 -O 200 -o test1.mpg test.m2v test.mpa
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.1 ($Date: 2002/02/04 19:06:14 $)
INFO: [mplex] File test.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [mplex] File test.mpa looks like an MPEG Audio stream.
INFO: [mplex] Found 1 video streams 1 MPEG audio streams and 0 AC3 streams
INFO: [mplex] Selecting SVCD output profile
INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (test.m2v)
INFO: [mplex] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [mplex] Frame width : 480
INFO: [mplex] Frame height : 480
INFO: [mplex] Aspect ratio : 4:3 display
INFO: [mplex] Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 2500000 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [mplex] CSPF : 0
INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Audio stream c0 (test.mpa)
INFO: [mplex] AUDIO STREAM:
INFO: [mplex] Audio version : 1.0
INFO: [mplex] Layer : 3
INFO: [mplex] CRC checksums : no
INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 16384 bytes/sec (128 kbit/sec)
INFO: [mplex] Frequency : 44100 Hz
INFO: [mplex] Mode : 0 stereo
INFO: [mplex] Mode extension : 0
INFO: [mplex] Copyright bit : 0 no copyright
INFO: [mplex] Original/Copy : 0 copy
INFO: [mplex] Emphasis : 0 none
INFO: [mplex] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [mplex] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 2680400
INFO: [mplex] Setting best-guess data rate.
INFO: [mplex] Sectors = 78 Video delay = 52376 Audio delay = 48692
INFO: [mplex] New sequence commences...
INFO: [mplex] Video e0: buf= 235520 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [mplex] Audio c0: buf= 4096 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [mplex] Scanned to end AU 62130
INFO: [mplex] STREAM e0 completed @ 62130.
INFO: [mplex] STREAM c0 completed @ 79360.
INFO: [mplex] Multiplex completion at SCR=186608425.
INFO: [mplex] Video e0: buf= 158764 frame=062130 sector=00275517
INFO: [mplex] Audio c0: buf= 753 frame=079360 sector=00014447
INFO: [mplex] VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
INFO: [mplex] Video Stream length: 78693456 bytes
INFO: [mplex] Sequence headers: 3485
INFO: [mplex] Sequence ends : 1
INFO: [mplex] No. Pictures : 62131
INFO: [mplex] No. Groups : 3485
INFO: [mplex] No. I Frames : 3485 avg. size 18287 bytes
INFO: [mplex] No. P Frames : 17259 avg. size 10660 bytes
INFO: [mplex] No. B Frames : 41387 avg. size 9225 bytes
INFO: [mplex] No. D Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
INFO: [mplex] Average bit-rate : 2429200 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] Peak bit-rate : 2750400 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 118252
INFO: [mplex] AUDIO_STATISTICS: c0
INFO: [mplex] Audio stream length 33169659 bytes.
INFO: [mplex] Syncwords : 79361
INFO: [mplex] Frames : 3239 padded
INFO: [mplex] Frames : 76122 unpadded
INFO: [mplex] BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 432
INFO: [mplex]
INFO: [mplex] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.

Everything seems fine to me, however there is no difference in the mplexed signal than if I didn't try to change the syncronization at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks

Shane