enable stream processing.ac3 w/ SmartRipper Quick Question

[defense]

For some reason when using DVD2SVCD to encode and get a movie to fit on one DVD-R, once in a while I get my audio and video out of synch. It's been out of synch anywhere between 10 and 20 seconds. I even tried DVD2DVDR yesterday, and it did everything perfect as far as video goes, but once again my audio was out of synch by some 20 seconds. Both programs use DVD2AVI. I was told to just use smartrippers enable "streaming" function and get that to output the .AC3 track and just import that into Maestro. Just when I was thinking I would try that, I was searching for another issue on this sites search option when I saw someone asking the similar question and they said to extract the audio stream with smartripper as well, but then they said once they did that, the .AC3 file would have a "delay" in the title and then I would have to use AC3 corrector and run the file in a program like BeSweet. That makes this more confusing now. Would someone be able to just tell me if I can use smartripper to extract the .AC3 file and just add that file to Maestro "as is?" Thanks in advance

[Joex444]

Personally, I think DVD Decrypter is better. Here's why:

When you rip a DVD, it outputs the .VOB files and .IFO files just like everything else, but it adds a .txt file. It tells you the AC3 delays. Why this is useful, I'm not sure. I haven't found a use for it yet. Plus, I've had better luck with DVD Decrypter. It will use SPTI access, if you have W2K/XP. Smartripper keeps giving me no ASPI errors. I don't know how I couldn't have an ASPI...

Anyways, even if you don't demux the .AC3 audio on rip, you can still get it out of the .VOB files using a program like XMPEG or FlaskMPEG (haven't used it but I assume it has the same features as XMPEG, since X is based on Flask). (In XMPEG, open the .IFO file [4.3 Alpha, or 4.5 with the IFO reader installed] or the first .VOB file [and hope it finds the rest], and then go Run -> Extract Audio -> Direct Stream Copy).

I tend to use Stream Processing just to remove the french languages, and director's commentary, so I have a gig or so free.

I don't have a DVD recorder, and haven't made any .VOB files from re-encoded MPEG-2 streams & AC3 streams, but I just can't figure out how you can possibly even get a delay from a DVD rip. If your DVD movie (the 9gb disc) had 200,000 frames (roughly 140 minutes), then your re-encoded MPEG-2 stream will have to have 200,000 frames. It can't invent frames. Then if you just use the same AC3 file, there's no way mathematically to even get a delay. The delays from the 9gb DVD would have to be found, and used in creating the new .VOBs. If you do that, there shouldn't be any way to get any delays.