Is speed an issue?

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I was able to get past most of the problems I've been having by doing different methods I've seen in help guides. Bad thing is I still get the sometimes stalls, or the video goes faster than the sound and vice versa.
So I was wondering since you can change the burners speed would help lessen the errors by lowering or highering the speed?

[MaDmiZe]

It has been my observation that the slower the burning speed the fewer errors.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Unfortunately, you may find that you're limited in how much you can reduce the speed. A lot of modern CD burner's can't burn lower than 8x for CD-R's. It depends on the burner's chipset.

[wulf109]

The burner your using is probably causing the errors. I had a Sony 4x drive that always errored at end of the disk. I changed to a Cyber-Drive 16x and have no problems. I don't burning speed is the problem,it's the burner. Out of synch audio is not a burning problem. It's caused by how you encode the file.

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Well I did was the guide said and extracted the .wav from the avi with virtual dub and the problem still happened. So I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

[DJRumpy]

Simply extracting the file doesn't necessarily mean all of your woes go away. You still may have to work on the audio to fix any errors.

I'm assuming you extracted the file via VirtualDub, and renamed it back to the correct extension (e.g. AC3,MP2,MP3, etc). These can still have errors in them that will cause sync problems. The same is true for the video stream. Look in the tools section for various fixes. Often, converting audio from one format to another will remove frame errors. This is NOT the case with the SAVE AS WAVE function. You basically get a copy of the audio, errors and all.

Do a little homework.

A few suggestions. If your audio is AC3, use AC3Fix to fix it (search on Google to find it).
If your audio is MP2, MP3, WAV, use BeSweet Gui. Download the other apps that can be used in the Gui (TooLame, SSRC, BeSweet). With those three you can fix just about any problem in those formats.

Last but not least, for Video problems, you can scan it for errors. I use VCDGear ( Mpeg --> Mpeg ), with the Fix Errors option to remove most simple video errors (this assumes your source file is MPEG). If it's a DIVX file, go to www.doom9.org, and look in the AVI section (click on show me more to see a full list). There are repair utilities there as well.

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Thanks man, that really helped me understand everything a little better. Now I think I can probably move forward and check guides and this board less for help.