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Rat
28th November 2003, 05:11 PM
Apologies for treating this forum as free tech support, but I know we have some clever people here.;)

Anyway, I am experimenting with my new DVD burner still, and have hit another problem. I have an avi movie that I want to burn to DVD. When it's finished, I watch it and find that the audio is about a second out of sync. It is not out on the original avi.

I am using NeroVision Express. Is this any good? Have I made some sort of fundamental error? There are not that many audio-related settings to change in Nero, so I can't do much there. Can anyone recommend (if it will help) some other DVD burning software, prefererably free or cheap.

I have W2K, so Adobe Encore is not an option, as it only runs on XP:(

Cheers,
Rat.
teddygrahams
28th November 2003, 08:38 PM
Rule #1: Never Burn directly to DVD.... make a folder or image on your hard drive until you get good results. You can drag .VOB files to PowerDVD to play directly, or simply rename them to .MPG or .AVI to play them with some other app.

I use MyDVD to encode to mpg... many people use TMPGENC (shareware, free trial) to encode to mpg. There is probably a setting to correct audio-video offset on tmpgenc.
ceptimus
29th November 2003, 04:02 AM
I normally rip the video and sound to separate files, then recombine them with tmpgenc. If the sound is off, I tweak it in sound forge by padding or chopping from the start, and stretching or squashing the length.

Different video formats have different sound sample rates, but with sound forge, you can resample (say at the standard .wav file 44.1kHz) and then adjust the length to exactly match the video length.
ShowMe
29th November 2003, 06:13 AM
http://www.vcdhelp.com


Probably more than you ever needed to know about copy DVD's, VCD's, ripping, combining, lathering rinsing & repeating.
teddygrahams
29th November 2003, 09:31 AM
It's:

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/
thrombus29
29th November 2003, 06:07 PM
If you want to go automatic, the new NERO 6.x.x will re encode slowly and surely.

Do it yourself you can do things like put subs in and whatnot.

2 good sites/guides:

http://www.movieking.co.uk/index.php
(The new home of the King John FAQ's)

http://www.doom9.org/