Xvid to VCD an impossibility!!!!!

[toto691]

I have a VERY high quality movie that i have tried for a week to encode to VCD............but its STILL out of sync!!!

I have ripped the audio to an UNcompressed .wav file with no problems, I have checked for frame errors which there are NONE, I have used seperate video & audio files, and also tried frameserving it into TMPGEnc to no joy.

Now......when i rip the audio, it is 7 seconds shorter than the video (for some unknown reason?) yet have stretched it in SoundForge to the EXACT length to match the video. I have tried BOTH the files and they BOTH have sync problems at the same point.

I have even burned ALL the VCD's i have tried to make and tried them on my dvd player just in case they differed to that on my pC, but NO!!!!!

I have followed all guides i can find on here, yet its STILL out of sync!!!

Why dont people just encode it straight to VCD with all this crap with Xvid......... is there a GUARANTEED method of encoding it, or is Xvid NOT an exact science............just trial and error?!!!!!

I am beginning to believe that sync problems are part'n'parcel with an Xvid encoded movie!!!!!

(Oh.......i have also AVIc to change the file to Divx, or at least make the pc think its Divx)

Somebody somewhere has the key!!!!!!!

[Gazorgan]

Hmmmm. Never meet an XviD I couldn't convert to SVCD. The fact that the audio is 7 seconds out of sync indicates VBR audio? Did it indeed rip to WAV? I mean it wasn't AC3 audio? Try direct stream copy, rename the file to mp3, then run it through your favorite audio app and convert it to an mp2. See if the time-length is correct.

The sync problems are part and parcel with VBR audio, not XviD ( happens with DivX just as often ). The reason people use VBR audio is to confound people that try and re-encode their work.

Try AVI2WAV. Where does the sync break? Is it a gradual thing, or is it abrupt?

[antoniosgubba]

Hmmm...wonder if its the same movie that I've just succesfully converted?..that had 7 seconds shorter audio too. ( Mr Affleck perhaps?).

Some movies do indeed have a shorter audio length than video length....but timestretching the audio to match the video will only worsen the prolem in this case!

I solved mine by leaving the audio as it was, but inserting a 7 second silence at the beginning of the audio and then by trial and error adjusted this silence until the sync was spot on.

I still cannot work out what the heck was going on with this movie, because as I said, the audio was 7 seconds shorter than the video...but the beginning and end of the audio track exactly matched the beginning and end of the video track....and there were NO audio glitches in the middle either....VERY weird!...it worked after I inserted the silence though, so thats all that matters.

[Bravoxena]

Make sure you are using the same frame rate as your source file!!!

I had a file that gradually went out of sync, but I then tried using the same frame rate as the source and having the audio and video from the SAME file, and it worked out!

Even though you may feel experienced in this area, sometimes going back to the newbie guides slove your problems!

[Cecilio]

Make sure you are using the same frame rate as your source file!!!

I had a file that gradually went out of sync, but I then tried using the same frame rate as the source and having the audio and video from the SAME file, and it worked out!

Even though you may feel experienced in this area, sometimes going back to the newbie guides slove your problems!

Hey well ok what movie is it cause really XVID arent as hard to convert to any other format. it is kind of hard when its AC3 i mean its a longer proccess but yea its pretty easy. so what movie is it and maybe i have done it and i can help you out

[toto691]

the film is actually, well, think 'Ghost' and 'Ship'!!!

Its so crisp a copy, i am really p***ed off that i cant do anything with it!!!

i will try the MP2 thing.........stay tuned, no doubt i will be back to SCREEEAM!!!!!!

[antoniosgubba]

Oh oh....I doubt this post will be sticking around for long now!

I've heard lots of reports about that movie being VERY difficult to encode properly though...maybe its one to just give up on.

[Cecilio]

Oh oh....I doubt this post will be sticking around for long now!

I've heard lots of reports about that movie being VERY difficult to encode properly though...maybe its one to just give up on.

oh my god i have done this movie and yes at first i found it super super difficult to encode but i did it ok you know when you download an xvid codec it comes with something called AVIC Four CC Change ok now open this up and you need to have DIVX 5.03 ok now there are 2 windows and they both say XVID now change them both to DIVX and this will do it. now all you do is encode it and it will all come out perfect. believe me it sounds short but i also gave up on this movie and i kept trying and it worked. is it the same one where it has some screens in black and white.

[antoniosgubba]

Oh yes...thats the one....went black and white every 20 mins or so. I watched it via an svideo cable to my TV in the end so I didn't bother trying to encode it.

There is another good reason why I wouldn't bother trying to encode this movie..........its SHITE!