Bad sync success story ..

[Bob01605]

I recently encoded the movie "10 Things I Hate About You" - It said on the cover that it was a 97 minute movie but after loading into DVD2SVCD the time came up as 107 minutes - 10 minutes longer ?? Oh well, maybe a mistake on the cover. I do the encode. Besweet shows 1 hr and 47 min of transcoding the sound. I check the mpg file after the encode and the sync is off by maybe 2 seconds ?? OK - plan B - I use Smartripper - Hey - Smartripper shows a 97 min movie - I rip the movie with Smartripper and pipe it through internal routines and do the encode. BeSweet again shows 107 minutes of sound transcoding and the movie doesn't sync again! What the hell ! Ok - I use Vstrip to rip - this time and BeSweet shows 97 min of sound transcoding - Yay ! But the movie STILL doesn't sync !!
Ok - I save the Vstrip rip because at least the TIME is right. I load the VOB's ripped by Vstrip again into internal routines but this time I look at the chapters in the movie length dropdown - Chapter 1 has a 00:00:00 time. What ?? Why a first chapter with a ZERO time ?? On a hunch I DESELECT chapter 1 and do the encode - a nice encode with PERFECT sync !
Anybody ever run into this situation - a ZERO time first chapter ??

Bob

[DDogg]

I'm Curious, was this a 4:3 with a "edited to fit your screen" placard? These always bite me. I never thought to check the chapter drop down for anything. I'll check next time.

[Bob01605]

Yes - It came up as a 4:3 in DVD2SVCD and shows I believe 1.85 to 1 aspect ratio on screen ..

Bob

[mrbass]

I was gonna say...why not do a chapter first. Which, of course, wouldn't have isolated the problem. I believe swordfish had a zero-byte vob file and that bugfix was corrected. I see zero length chapters all the time near the end of dvds all the time. Never at the beginning. Thanks for the tip...I'll have to remember this. I did "Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer Island of the Misfits" and audio was 45 seconds late. I'll have to check into if that was indeed the cause.

[chainsaw135]

@Bob01605 man if more people did half of what you did to figure out the solution it would make life much easyer...I myself even with swordfish, when i did the back up months ago Didn't have synch problems...tho now when i do have a synch issue i'll make sure to check the chapter lengths and so forth...thanks bob01605 well done i think.

[DDogg]

moved to basic so more people would see.