Weird audio sync problem Any ideas ?

[scottb721]

I was doing a music video DVD ,The Essential Eighties.
At the start of each song the audio sync is fine but gets progressively worse, to the point where the audio lags by 1 second and the playback stops , it flashes a black screen and then resumes were it left off but with correct sync.

I noticed something different to a normal DVD rip earlier in the process.
I normally select decode to wav but during DVD2AVI the audio format box showed "MPEG Audio" instead of the normal DD 3/2 display so the result was that at the end I didn't have a WAV file of the audio.
I had to use Demux in DVD2AVI to get an audio file.

In TMPGE I loaded the d2v of the video and the MPEG of the audio and did the encode which worked fine.
I tried using the -80ms that was in the audio file name on the TMPGE range source screen but this didn't fix it.

The sync problem doesn't happen on the PC, just my Philips standalone.

Never had this before, but all of my previous DVD's have had a wav file for the audio.

Any takers? Thanks

[scottb721]

Well, finally found the fix. I reencoded at 2450 instead ot 2520 and now my Philips DVD718 plays the disc back fine.
For some reason my Philips stand-alone can't handle SVCD's at max bitrate.
For the smart people, any ideas why ?

The problem showed up in Stuart Little 2, because the movie fits onto 2 discs at max bitrate, and I somehow came up with the idea to turn down the bitrate a touch. All my other encodes have been sub-max so no problems have showed up.

[rqtball]

I might be wrong but I think that the max bitrate includes the audio also..



The reason I think that is because the same thing happened to me..My Pioneer goes to I believe its 2500 but if I do 2400 then audio at over 128..I get problems. Once I lowered the audio it was good to go...

Scott

[scottb721]

I think TMPG does the audio for my SVCDs at 224, add that to 2520 and you get 2744.
I think is over the total bitrate for Vid and Aud, is it 2720 or something?

My Camcorder transfers were all done at 2520 but I think what saved them was the audio wasn't at 224(I think).