Divx Encoding

[xzibit3180]

I've been encoding this Friends Season 4 DVD too many times and it always comes out the same. The audio becomes out of sync with the video. I've tried every possible settings I could thing of that is causing the problems. All the episode is all bunch together but after the 2 episode, (3rd) it's start to lose it. If anyone has any suggestion I am willing to listen. thank you

[manono]

Hi-

If anyone has any suggestion I am willing to listen.

Encode the episodes separately?

[sh03z]

you could encode the episodes seperatly, but that's a little silly...

Why don't you read up on the Virtual dub FAQ's, or use another program...

What I would use for TV episodes is not virtual dub, but Ulead Video Studio. The input picture is about 6 times clearer, and it will encode the audio at the same time...

You could first encode it to uncompressed avi (make sure you have about 2-3 gigs free), and then convert it to mpeg with CCE...

Don't get me wrong, Virtual Dub is a great program, it's just not the best Video Capture program out there...it's awesome for resizing, effects, frameserving, and other stuff that's necassary...

[manono]

Hey sh03z-

I don't mind getting bashed if your alternative suggestion is a better one. In this case, though, it's not only not better, but it's completely off topic, and makes no sense at all in the context of xzibit3180's original question. Look up top, and you'll see that this is the DivX Encoding Forum. So just how do MPEG/CCE/Capturing/Video Studio have anything at all to do with this thread, when the original poster clearly said that he's backing up a DVD?

I think I know what xzibit3180's problem is, and while my suggestion may or may not be the most efficient way to solve his problem, it's anything but silly.

[sh03z]

Thanks for bringing that to my attention...

I totally misread that question.

It had nothing to do with TV-capture, so Ulead is irrelevant.

I agree do the episodes seperatly, which would make matching the audio with the video 10 times easier...you can do that in virtual dub...

[xzibit3180]

So, if I had to encode the episodes separately, because the vob files are just bunch together, I should use virtual dub manually?. I can't use Gorndian Knot.

[manono]

Hi-

First make sure that you ripped using DVDDecrypter in IFO Mode (and not in File Mode). File Mode will always give you one big set of VOBs, but often IFO Mode will have the different episodes split up.

If they are still one big set of VOBs, then use the [ and ] keys of DVD2AVI to split them up when creating the .d2vs. And create a new folder for each episode. Then you can still use GKnot. You may want to put 2 episodes on each CD, so one way to do it is to make each episode for 350 MB.

Or you may try and split your already finished .avi into the separate episodes, and then adjust the Delay of the audio for the 3rd and 4th episodes. But that doesn't always work, if there's no keyframe at the end of each episode on which to split.

[xzibit3180]

Thanks for the tip. I will check if my DVDcrypter is ripping at info instead of file mode. I'm not sure about that. and I will do the dvd2avi [] thing to set it for each episode. Let's see if that will work. thanks for the suggestion and help.

[jggimi]

In ifo parsing mode, DVD Decrypter (or R4R, if you're using it) will select the longest program chain (PGC) by default. But if each episode is in separate PGCs, you should run separate rips selecting each episode-PGC individually.