DVD-9 to DVD-5 - Audio problems

[christopherpm]

Hi,

I'm very new to this, but have been following Doom's DVD-9 to DVD-5 Full Copy guide. Two films I have tried so far:-

A Beautiful Mind
Scorpion King

When I come to compile these films in DVD Maestro, the audio is very much out of sync.

What is the most likely cause of this problem? The AC3 track has no Delay on it...

Thanks

[auenf]

are you dropping the audio file onto the timeline, or creating a sync audio track?

Enf...

[christopherpm]

I'm dropping the AC3 audio file into the audio timeline.

What I have noticed is this:-

The audio stream is 1:27:38:18 long.
The video stream is 1:49:30:21 long.

Playing back the film in PowerDVD, it really IS 1:27:38:18 long - the same as the audio stream. The only thing I can think of is something going wrong with the encoding of the video. I have to use pulldown to set the framerate to 25 - it appears to be the only way I can get the video to import into Maestro without the "Illegal Video Resolution" error.

Just for info, the DVD (Scorpion King) is a PAL DVD not NTSC.

[auenf]

try create sync audio track.

Enf...

[jradams]

This is the same problem im having :( Except my audio file is about 3 min off from the video. I did try just dropping the .ac3 file on the time line and that didnt work and they i tried to resynch and it still didnt work? What are we missing in that guide? I'm trying to rip swordfish.

[dannyv]

Originally posted by auenf
try create sync audio track.

Enf...

I to drop my audio on the timeline but my problem is a little different. My audio starts out ok but gradually goes out of sync. By the end of the movie the audio is out by almost a full second. How do you create an audio sync track? and will that correct my problem. The audio is ahead of the video so I'm suspecting that I'm dropping video frames in tmpgenc. my process is as follows and all software is the latest.

dvd-decryptor - rip
dvd2avi - demux
tmpgenc - compress
dvd meastro - author

dan

[christopherpm]

I've actually resolved my problem now. I was going to far with the instructions. I was using Pulldown, BUT all of my films that I am ripping are PAL!!! <doh> So I now don't use Pulldown, and the audio and video are in sync properly....