The best TMPGEnc settings for this?

[banjazzer]

Ideally you would add the subtitles when you convert from DivX to SVCD, but this would probably mean frameserving with VirtualDub, or a similar procedure. This adds a whole new level of complexity. All I can say is, Good Luck! Let us know how you get on. What I would add is, don't spend umpteen hours doing the whole thing. Do a short test encode first to make sure you are getting the result you want!

[ejp]

Ah, so I guess I'll just add these subtitles to the MPEG.

Frameserving and I really don't go well with eachother. Hehe. The method I'm using isn't using frameserving at all, that's why I chose it.

I'll see if I can get this to work. I really have good feelings about it.

Oh, and of course, I'll only encode a few minutes, and I'll preview that.

Anyway, another problem with the subtitling is that with the method I'm using, at http://forum.vcdhelp.com/userguides/87065.php#5 , is offsync. The subtitles are late by a good 10-20 seconds. I'll try to look for other posts on this. But if anyone can help, go right ahead and suggest.

Thanks in advance.

[ejp]

OK, well the encoding took SO long. But it finished about a half hour ago, WITH the black bars.

But about 7 seconds into MPEG-2, there is a beep. I haven't watched the whole thing, but I really don't like that beep. I still have the original .wav file. So maybe I can multiplex the video of the MPEG-2 with the original .wav file.

The thing is, Toolame won't be involved. So would I have to re-encode just the audio by itself with Toolame? If so, then I can mulitplex that with the video of the MPEG-1.

Anyway, I heard that s/vcds with AC3 audio become off sync. I was watching my MPEG-2, and i skipped far near the end. Indeed, it was off sync. But I haven't tried it on my stand-alone VCD player yet. So I'll try that, and I'll post back.

Oh, and I haven't even tried working with the subtitles yet.

[ejp]

WOW, alright. I viewed the first few minutes, and everything was excellent quality. It seemed the beeps weren't there. Wierd.

Anyway, I'm going to watch the whole movie and see if there is off synching.

Then I'll see what I can do with the subtitles.

[ejp]

Alright, this is what I expected to happen. The video is perfect.

The audio is out of sync. It seems to be gradually becoming out of sync. You hear the words before the actors say it. I've read a few other posts about this problem, and I've gotten a couple of answers/suggestions.

So maybe, just maybe, one more time, you, banjazzer, can come through for me again! I know you've been following my problem since the beginning, and you probably know more about it than any other person.

But if anyone can direct me to another topic, or reply to me, then that would be great!

Oh, and in the middle of the movie, there seems to be a lot of going in and out of "slow motion". Everything runs smoothly one second, and the next, it's not as smooth. Then it becomes smooth again. It does this for a good minute or two. It doesn't bother me a whole lot, but it's noticeable.

If you want to know more about how the encoding was done, read the first few posts.

Thanks in advance.

[banjazzer]

What are you playing your encoded SVCD on? To give it a fair chance you should really try it on a standalone DVD player, or at the very least a competent SVCD player like WinDVD or PowerDVD.

If the problems still show up then check your extracted wav file has come out exactly the same length as your avi. If they are then something strange has happened, because you would have expected to have sync problems in the original avi.

[ejp]

Yes, I was playing my SVCD on my stand-alone DVD player.

Alright, I found out the length of the video and the audio. I thought there was something TERRIBLY wrong, but I found out why there was a mismatch.

Length of AVI Video : 01:53:43.721
Length of AVI Audio : 01:53:07

Length of MPEG Video : 01:53:42.62
Length of MPEG Audio : 01:53:07

I didn't know how to find more accurate Audio Lengths. I got them when I played it on Windows Media Player.

OK, so now you're wondering where those 36 seconds went at the end of the Audio. Well, in the last 36 seconds of the video, they just play 36 seconds worth of DTS stuff. But during that time, there is absolutely NO audio. So that's why there are 36 seconds missing.

[banjazzer]

Well, obviously wav and avi have to be the same length to avoid sync problems. 8) You find the avi length in Virtualdub, and for the exact length of a wav you will probably need something like CoolEdit or Soundforge. Winamp will give you the length to the nearest second.

[ejp]

Oh, and I forgot to mention. I viewed the avi again. And there doesn't seem to be anything offsync.

But then I viewed the mpeg. And yes, it becomes offsync. It never get's drasitcally offsync. So I really don't know if it's gradual.

I watched the SVCD again. It looks like it's offsync within the first minute. It might even be offsync right from the start. And I don't know if it becomes even more offsync gradually, or if it stays constant. It SEEMS like it stays constant.