Help with Nero and burning avi's

[maggi]

Hi to Everyone
Wonder if anyone could help me please
I am new to Nero and I am having problems. When I burn avi movies in vcd format, they play ok for a while then the sound goes out of sync with the video.
I have a cyber drive cd burner and use Nero 5.5 burning software
What can I do to correct this problem
any help would be great
Thanks
Maggi

[siaododo]

Are you using Nero to convert the AVI's to mpg? Nero does not do a good job converting, in fact, it sucks. Suggest you download Tmpgenc & use it to convert your AVI file to mpg first, then burn it with Nero. read the Guides posted on this site, they give more detailed infos.

[maggi]

Hi to everyone
Thank you siadodo for replying to my last query
I went to the tmpgenc vcd site and downloaded it,
I have printed off all the relevant info
Can you hep me with one more thing
When tempenc has finished encoding what do i do next, to be able to burn it onto cd using nero
I know I am really green about all this
If anyone can help it would be great
Thanks Maggi

[siaododo]

After converting your avi file to mpg, it is ready to be burned to a CDR. Remember in order to make a VCD, your file must be mpg-1. To make a SVCD, your file must be mpg-2.

You can use Nero or VCDEasy to burn, I find them to be the easiest.

When you converted your file to mpg with Tmpgenc, if you had used the VCD template that comes with the program, you should have a VCD compliant mpg file. If you didn't, Nero will probably tell you that your file is non-compliant, simply turned off the compliancy check, and continue to burn the VCD.

Suggest you read Sefy's guide for newbies, it is quite good & helpful.

[maggi]

Hi Siaododo

Thanks for all your help, Vcd burned succesfully,

The first of many I hope

Regards
Maggi

[Darr1960]

Oh Maggi,

Also try and keep your MPG files that you convert to VCD as close to the
VCD standard as possible.. This is important if :D :D you plan on sharing you homemade VCD with Family and friends..Some of your family members
may have DVD players that won't play Non-Compliant VCD....