AVI to VCD, I need a little help.

[alexjs77]

I frequently burn AVI's to VCD's but I almost always get sync problems. I usually do it through the VCD encoder in toast and this is usually how I get the problems. I don't have problem with bin/cue files though. What is the best way, for example, to go from a AVI with AC3 audio to a burned VCD? Thanks for all the help! If it helps, I'm running Tiger with a 1.25ghz G4 and 768MB of RAM. Thanks again!

[terryj]

The Rules of Mac apply Here:

Q.R.E.A.M.
( Quicktime Rules Everything on A Mac)

Toast uses QT to encode to MPEG-1.
QT has to like the flavor of the .avi,
and almost with out fail has issues
with DIVX flavored avis.

What I've done in the past was to get
the AVI's over to a QT .mov file, either through
using Divx Doctor II ( which is kinda obsolete now)
or by using ffmpegx.

If you use ffmpegx, you can also re-encode the audio
at the same time to generic AIFF or MPEG audio, which will
help in the muxing to MPEG-1 in Toast.

[alexjs77]

Well it's AC3, so Divx Doctor is out of the question, I'll try using FFmpegX though on the VCD preset with decode with mplayer instead of QT. Will this work?

[terryj]

Which was why I was saying its kinda obsolete now....


yes, the ffmpegx settings should work.