MPEG to VCD and now the aud and vid are out of sync ? Help.

[Bernie Lomax]

I have the MPEGs and they are fine on the PC. When I put them into Nero, it "re-encodes" them. I play the new VCD and the aud is not synced to the vid. Off about 2-3 seconds. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

[DJRumpy]

Your MPEG is not standard for VCD. It probably has an unusual frame rate. Nero is 'helping' you by re-encoding the MPEG to the standard, and probably screwing things up in the process.

Depending on what your source files look like, in regards to frame rate, and audio frequency, try using the standard VCD template in TMPGenc to 'fix' your MPEG's. Did Nero complain when you imported the files that they were non-compliant?

[Bernie Lomax]

Yes, it did, so I let it re encode. Should I use TMPGenc to encode and Nero to burn?

[Treebeard]

Never use nero to encode a mpeg, its gonna be ugly.

use tmpgenc or cce to encode to a mpeg1. then use nero to burn it as a vcd

[Bernie Lomax]

Okay, now we're getting there. So one more question. TMPGenc is going to take my MPEG and make an output file called the same thing? Then that file is ready to be burned as a VCD?

Thanks guys!

[Treebeard]

Well, do you know if your mpeg is an mpeg1 file?

if it is then you can burn that and see if it plays.
nero could be telling you its not compliant b/c bitrate is not at the standard 1150 rate. If you want to test your existing mpeg try this.

Run nero - new VCD -- drag your mpeg over -- click burn -- If it says it is a non compliant format or something like that tell it to turn off compliance and make non compliant cd. when its finished burning test it in your player. This will actually be a XVCD since its not a "compliant" or "standard" VCD.

If you re-encode with tmpgenc it will give you a compliant mpeg1 file as long as you dont change the bitrate settings.

[Bernie Lomax]

Great, I'll try it, thanks!