Newbie sound/video sync question

[bryguy500]

I'm new to this whole VCD thing, but my first two attempts have been very successful thanks to VCDhelp's wonderful guides. My question is pretty simple.

I've been burning anime episodes that I've downloaded off IRC, and been able to fit 3 eps per VCD. Everything works great, except that sometimes it appears the animation slows down for a split second, and then speeds up real quick as if its trying to catch up with itself. The sound also appears to be perfect, as far as sounds effects, but sometimes the animtion seems a bit ahead of the voices, and then sometimes it seems dead on.

The files I used were .avi's which I encoded to .mpg with TMPGenc, and then burned with VCDeasy. I saw mentions of a program called Virualdub to use for DivX movies to sync the audio/video, and I was wondering if that is something that would help the situation I am having or not. Its not a constant mis-match of sound and video, its just noticable sometimes, and only with speech not sound effects. So, would Virtualdub help, or is it basically just how the original .avi was encoded.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[JIM E]

If it is the origional avi's that are unsync, then yes. VirtualDub would be able to help. But if it's unsync once it is encoded to mpg, then maybe you should get a better MPEG-2 decoder.