I learned about (S)VCD a few weeks ago. I have more
then 20 years of home video recordings on VHS/8mm tape
and I think VCD is ideal for making compilations. So
I bought a DVD player (Philips DVD711) and started
collecting info, mainly from vcdhelp.com.

Burned my first VCD from parts of a 18 year old VHS
tape, length about 50 min. Picture quality surprises
me but sound drifts out of sync towards the end.
Result is unusable.

Tools used: Capture with Matrox Marvel G200 to
352x288 MJPEG AVI. Put the parts on timeline with
Premiere 5.1 on NT4. Exported with Avisynth to
TMPGEnc 2.0, std PAL VCD template. Chapters/image
with TSCV/vcdimager. Burned with cdrdao.

Audio sync in source is ok. For test I exported same
project with evaluation version Panasonic plugin to
VCD MPEG and that result was ok, so this seems an
issue with TMPGEnc. The Panasonic encoder is to
expensive for me, besides this I would love to use the
SeVCD/SxVCD templates to put 90 min on a cdr.

Already tried SxVCD but audio sync problem also here.

I know that many people use TMPGEnc so I think there
must be a workaround for these audio sync problems.
Can anybody give me a hint or tip in the right
direction? Thanks!

B.t.w., can TSCV/vcdimager be used for SeVCD/SxVCD
created MPEG files?


Jaap van Geels