aligning sound w/ picture in AVI>SVCD(mpeg2) conversion

[cdpixton]

When I encode directly from AVI to MPEG2 (using MGI Videowave4) the picture comes significantly after the sound. Using TEMPEG Enc I can supposedly adjust the alignment of sound and video but the sound quality is for some reason terrible, and I haven't changed the standard audio bitrate setting or anything (from 224). Can somebody help me? Thank you so much.

Clayton

[cdpixton]

...may I add that I would extract the audio in VDub, but it says my AVI file is a DV Type 1 file and it is not capable of extracting the audio. Is there another application that will...?

Clayton

[MaDmiZe]

I've only had this problem when I encode someone elses DivX(avi) movie to MPEG1 for VCD...Sometimes the DivX audio does not go through the uncompression recompression without losing sync (sometimes its off in the original avi and gets worse)...I have found that if I rip the AVi audio off with VirtDub as a uncompressed wav ...then use that as the audio source and orig avi as video source for TPMG during encoding...the sync always lines up.

Hey you predicted what I was goig to say: so heres another==>
I have also done a De-multiplex in TMPG (under mpeg tools)which gives you a seperate audio and video file....then I cut off part of the video (2min 12 sec- itimed the difference in audio and video) and re multiplexed...... It was spot on with sync then...
Also the part I lost was only opening credits ...not actual movie...so solution seemed right