Ben Hur Side B is giving me fits!

[rbergero]

Ripped (internal routines) and processed Ben Hur Side A and B. Side A was perfect but created 4 bin/cue files with the 4th file only containing a 10 second Intermission notice.

The audio on Side B is ahead by about 1/2 a second but when I try to change the settings in bbMPEG and redo the muxing and cutting, it seems that the audio gets more and more ahead, sometimes by 3-4 seconds!

I searched the forum and the original post someone had for Ben Hur problems has dropped off.

Does anyone remember the Audio delay time they used in bbMPEG to sync up the audio and video?

Thanks!

[gerti67]

Hi rbergero,

if the audio is ahead by about half a second then I would assume you have to delay the audio stream by 500ms. So this would be 680ms for the audio delay then as 180ms is the default value. Leave the video delay at 180ms.

HTH,
Gerti

[rbergero]

Thanks for the reply Gerti. I tried 680ms on the Audio delay earlier and used the Recover at the point of Muxing and Cutting and it actually caused the audio delay to be about 4 seconds behind (weird).

I had the same problem with another movie and it did something similar (originaly had a 8 1/2 second a/v symc issue). I tried it several times without success, then one time I tried it, it finally worked.

I'm going to try to recover with the default settings to get back to the original state, then try the 680ms delay again to see what happens.

[markrb]

If you still have the DVD or the VOB files look to see if the first chapter of the second side/disc has a "0" value. That there is no time mentioned. If this is the case rip the files again, but uncheck that first chapter.

Are you trying to use the method to encode a 2 sided or double DVD as one encode? If so there is a known issue with DVD2AVI that can cause the A/V to unsink on the second part. If this happens you really have no choice, but to treat each disc/side as a seperate encode.

Mark

[rbergero]

Oh My! I checked the VOB files and it has 61 Chapters but the first 39 are zero!

The longer I made the audio delay in bbMPEG, the more the audio got out of sync. What was weird about it was the fact that the audio kept getting more and more ahead of the video even as I added more time in the audio delay.

Oh well, I ripped just the non-zero chapters and will process it again tonight.

BTW - I knew about the DVD2AVI issue so I was already treating the 2 sides as 2 separate DVDs.

Thanks for the help guys!!!

[rbergero]

Processed Side B minus the 0 length chapters and the audio was in sync with the video!

[dvd2svcd]

Would you mind mailing me the ifo file from side B ?

[rbergero]

Sure thing - I don't have it at the moment (friend has it) but I will get it back in the next day or so and I will shoot it over to you.

[dvd2svcd]

thanks :)