Memorex MVD2027 audio sync problems?

[wesmoc]

Here's the scoop. I have a Pioneer PV-DV434 which has worked wonderfully. I recently purchased a (cheap) Memorex MVD2027 for use with another television.

98% of the items I have burned work just fine in the Memorex. The remaining 2% are the confusing pieces of this puzzle. I have two discs (the last two home video discs I have burned) which contain, obviously, home videos shot with my DV cam.

Anyhow, I've burned a total of 6 of these so far. I've burned other things too, but those all seem happy in both DVD players. Out of the six discs, two play with the audio out of sync by 1-3 seconds only on the Memorex. It appears to sync back up later on at other chapters in the discs, but there are distinct parts where the audio is horribly out of sync.

I mean, the initial scene is of my kids talking about their birthday and how excited they are, and you get to watch their mouths move but the sound follows as if you are 100 miles away.

You take those same discs and walk them over to my Pioneer DV434, and they work beautifully..

These two discs were created in the same way that the others were created.. I mean, I went through the exact same steps (Rip from the camera into Premier, output audio as a WAV, output video as a raw AVI, push the AVI through TMPGEnc to give me an Mpeg2 stream, push the audio through DVDit! to give me the AC3 file, use SpruceUp to build the menus, chapter marks, and build the DVD, and burn the disc using Primo)..

The only difference is the media.. The last two discs are from a recent batch I got from MeritLine.com. BUT, I have burned other things (non home movies. ) on to these same discs and they work fine in both players...

Argh.. it is frustrating to say the least. Anyone have any ideas before I march this player right back to the store to get another brand to test...

[wesmoc]

I should also point out that these DVDs work fine in the DVD players in both my computer (the one that burned it) and another computer, as well as working in a high end SONY that a friend has..

I'm perplexed.. I even copied the disk to a DVD-RW just to see if it made a difference, which it didn't. Last step is to use smartripper to demux the audio and video, then re-author the DVD..

Other than that, I have no other tests to try.. I have no good reason why these two discs are not sync'ed on one player, but happily play on another player.

[wesmoc]

No responses, but no big deal.

I just took the rotten player back. Actually, it's a great player aside from the sync problem. Looked sharp and played all of the DVD's and DVD-R's just fine. For some reason, it just didn't like the 2-Channel AC3 audio on the DVD-R's that contained home movies.

So, I picked up the Panasonic DVD-RV32 and it worked wonderfully right out of the box! And this player plays even more formats that I will never use.