PowervcrII MPG1 video plays 2X faster than audio when burned

[caliburn]

Good day everyone.

I have Dell Dimension 450 Mhz, 256 MB RAM, ATI A-I-W 7500 and two hard drives - a 13 Gig and 80 Gig.

I have captured via s-video cable a significant amount of MPG1 video (30 Gigs of Cartoon Network's "June Bugs" from satellite source) using the default PowervcrII "MPEG1 Excellent" setting -
720x480 (Full screen)
3000 bitrate
audio bitrate @ 384

The resulting files play fine in the ATI File Player, audio and video are synchronized throughout. But, when the file is burned to disc using Nero 5.5's VCD setting, the audio and video are horribly out of sync, with the video playing at what apears to be twice the speed of the audio.

I have read quite a bit in this forum, vcdhelp, and dvd-digest (Nicky's guide for fixing audio sunchronization problems) and the problem appears to be "stretched video".
I have read of a couple of different suggestions - re-encoding with TMPGEnc and/or VirtulDub appear to hold the most promise.

Has anyone had success solving a similar issue?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Caliburn

[dilbert]

Have you tried a real softplayer like PowerDVD-XP or Win-DVD latest versions.
After I enode an MPEG-file fore SVCD, the sound always get out of sync when beeing played i Windows Media Player. Bur when i use PowerDVD-XP the sync is gone.

dilbert

[caliburn]

Hi there.
Thanks for the reply.
It plays OK on the computer, but is speeded up when burned and played on my Apex AD 1500 DVD player.
I'll have to play around some more to perfect the settings.
I captured all of Cartoon Networks "June Bugs", but have too many frame drops.
Didn't install my capture card in my computer in enough advance time to tinker with it to find suitable settings.
35 hours of classic Bugs Bunny wasted.

Caliburn

[dilbert]

Hi caliburn
have you tried to demux the mpeg-file, mux it with bbMPEG,
then use VCDEasy to burn.

dogbert

[caliburn]

Hi dibert.
I really haven't tried anything. The files are just sitting on my hard drive, sort of like being cryogenically frozen until someone discovers a "cure" for this problem.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it over the next few days and report back with my results.

Caliburn

[dilbert]

Hi caliburn
I was surfing around and stumbeld over this FAQ from:

http://www.thepixel.net/workaround.php


Q: The Audio is twice as fast as the video (high pitch).

A: BeSweet currently (1.2) does not support mono audio input. If your source is mono i.e. from a divX the resulting file will turn out the half size it should be and plays twice as fast. A workaround for this is using a tool called "EXACT AUDIO COPY" then ->Tools->Decompress the ripped audio to wav. A stereo .wav-file should be written (about 1,2 GB for a 2h movie). Now pick the Besweet parameters from your DVD2SVCD log and run on commandline.

If it to som help.

dilbert

[caliburn]

Hi dilbert.
Thank you for looking into this on my behalf, I certainly appreciate it.
I solved the problem, sort of.
I reinstalled Windows XP on my system, and had a few problems, and ended up having to erase the contents of my second hard drive in order to correct the problem. All my video was on that drive.
Therefore all my video capture files are gone, ergo, problem gone.
Thanks again though.

Caliburn