Sync Problems with Pirates of the Carribean

[PaulG]

Hi. Wonder if anyone can help with a sync problem encountered with Pirates of the Caribbean?

I've used DVD2SVCD for some time and the only other time I've experienced a similar sync problem was with The Time Machine. It's not hugely out - about a second - and comes in right from the beginning. I've a feeling that this has to do with trailers at the beginning of the movie - something Disney have a tendancy to do - and somewhere a while ago I'm sure I saw a thread relating to this! Somehow the trailers upset things and cause sync issues. I ripped using vstrip and TMPGenc with more or less standard settings throughout. Tried it twice and both times the same results.

My other thought was to look at editing the IFO file to take out the trailer reference in the program chain, but I'm not sure if this will upset DVD2SVCD's operation. I've no idea how to do this but have seen seen some threads on this and there's 2Cools's guides which look good.

many thanks

[Nick]

Hi Paul
Welcome to the forum.

Couple of thinks to start with...
Is there a good reason why you're ripping with vStrip - Internal routines have some advantages.

For example if you use the internal ripping routines you can select which chapters you want to rip with a dropdown box (Conversion tab - click the end of the Movie Length box). This will more than likely allow you to skip the trailers anyway (assuming the start of the movie itself is a chapter stop - it probably will be). If not, the frame selection feature certinly will. If converting to SVCD there are certainly better ways to use your limited bits than encoding trailers!

Secondly is the sync problem on a standalone DVD player, on your PC or both?. If you still have the files from the conversion is the bbMPEG muxed file in the Movie folder in sync?

If none of this helps post back. Be sure to read the stickies as well - espacially the Mandatory Read sticky in the Sticky index. It tells you what info is helpful for problem posts.

Good luck
Nick

[PaulG]

Thanks for replying Nick.

Actually,I only started using vStrip as somewhere I read it helped to prevent sync problems! I much prefer Smartripper for normal rips. I confess I've never tried using the internal routines. Think I will start experimenting with it from now on tho.

Unfortuntaely, the problem exists on all players, and when I tried a second time the muxed files also were out of sync. Think I still have the logfile from that one if that will help. I still have the orignal rip on my HD - but do you think I should rip again but using internal routines? The rip has no trailers and i was reading the recent thread from Scruffyman and wondered if my sync probs might also be similarly related perhaps to besweet (altho this is starting to get out of my depth here!) in which case perhaps I can still use this rip.

Many thanks

Paul

[Nick]

The first thing I would do is rip with internal routines, reconvert and see what happens. If it all goes wrong post back tomorrow with logfiles etc.

If you are making SVCD not DVDR, your problem is unlikely to be linked to scruffyman's