Sound keeps getting delayed when capturing/ripping/encoding/burning play...

[pbuscher]

Ok, I didn't know specifically where to put this question, so I posted it here in the newbie section.

What I did was I recorded a couple of cartoons for my kid using my stand-alone DVD recorder (Pioneer DVR-RT500). I wanted to edit out the commercials, so I put the DVD in my computer and ran VOB2MPG to convert all the VOBs into one big MPG file. I then ran TMPGEnc 3.0 Xpress and cut out all the commercials. I then noticed that the MPG file did not contain audio in the TMPGEnc 3.0 Xpress program to edit (I think because the MPG file had digital AC3 audio and TMPGEnc 3.0 Xpress does not edit that), so I took the one big unedited MPG file and opened it in VirtualDubMod. In VirtualDubMod, I changed the video to Direct Stream Copy, and under Stream/Stream List, I right clicked the audio stream, and selected Full Processing. Then I clicked Save WAV. I put that WAV file in TMPGEnc 3.0 Xpress with the one big MPG file with commercials deleted. Then I went and encoded it into one big DVD MPG file. Once that was done, I then ran TMPGEnc DVD Author and authored it to a DVD and burned it.

Ok, so that is step by step what I did. I thought everything was good until I popped it in my standalone DVD to play it. When it played, it played fine. But after a few minutes, the audio slowly got more and more delayed. About quarter or halfway into it, the audio was about 1 second off making the voices not matching up to the characters lips. Minutes later, the audio got about 2 seconds delayed making it even worse.

What am I doing wrong that is causing this? Why does the audio slowly start getting delayed?

Thanks.

[towerblocks]

Try using videoredo to cut out any commercials, Much better, it will keep audio sync, cut out the commercials and save the file to MPG, Now i've came accross a few posts in my time were people have had audio sync issue's with TMPGEnc DVD Author, So also try another authoring program, 2 things for you to try .

[pbuscher]

Thanks! All I've ever used was TMPGEnc DVD Author. Could you recommend a good authoring program?

[towerblocks]

Try ifoedit its freeware, Here's a guide on how to do it.

Also DVDAuthorGui is freeware, Here's a guide for that.

Both are dead easy to use.

[mats.hogberg]

All you need is actually TDA. I used to cut commercials with Womble mpg VCR, but lately, I've gotten lazy and just use the cut feature of TDA to remove commercials. Never a sync loss so far.

/Mats

[pbuscher]

All you need is actually TDA. I used to cut commercials with Womble mpg VCR, but lately, I've gotten lazy and just use the cut feature of TDA to remove commercials. Never a sync loss so far.

/Mats

Oh man.... Duh! That did the trick! Geez... Why did I ever run TMPGEnc XPress AND TMPGEnc DVD Author?!?! Using TMPGEnc DVD Author to edit out the commercials and authorize works very good! No sound problems! Yay!