Sync problems with TMPEG!

[davidian]

Hey, I've got a problem, that I've never had before. Tmpegenc has always worked perfectly, until now. I recently bought a concert on DVD, Dream Theater - Metropolis pt 2 (great concert and I want to convert it to VCD.

I've done this many times before, both to VCD and SVCD.

Well the problem is that after ~35-40 minutes into the VCD file (which looks great apart from that) the audio becomes out of sync. Since it's a concert, you notice it very clearly (cymbal crashes etc!)

The specs I can give:

Source: PAL DVD
Programs used: CladMdec, DVD2AVI and Tmpegenc.

(I don't think my computer specs are important here, are they?)

The only settings I've made in Tmpeg is that I loaded the VCD template (PAL) and then I chose deinterlace as a filter, and chose motion search highest quality.

Hmm is there anything I could've done wrong?

[poopyhead]

hrm..since the audio is not outta sync by the same length throughout the rip...

perhaps it's a framerate problem....maybe you're losing frames and that's wut's causing your rip to be slowly outta sync...

[davidian]

Well it's probably out of sync all the way, but only enought to notice after 35 minutes?

/Johan

[sayeesreedhar]

Hi,
If you want to solve the Sync Problem just use this great software ACID PRO 3.0 from Sonic Foundry.You can download the Demo Version from their site.

Bye.

[poopyhead]

well...if the audio is outta sync for exactly the same time length for the entire movie..u can fix it during the actual encode...

in tmpgenc, there is a source range filter..under it..there is an audio skew option where u can tell tmpgenc to add the audio milliseconds before or after the video so u can get your audio 'N Sync..