audio/subtitles resyncing

[spud1980]

How do you guys resolve audio/subtitles resyncing issues in AutoGK after you have processed everything? Given that you know exactly how much delay or advance there is.

For subtitles, I run the preview and after it has generated the idx file I manually edit the idx before reprocessing a 2nd time, i.e. the first processing I found out there were sync-ing issues and determined the delay/advance.

Any suggestion for "editing" audio delay? Before letting AutoGK do the processing again?

Cheers.

[Mnl]

Hi spud1980-

Have a look at this thread:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72201

[spud1980]

I've got the audio thingy kinda sorted out...

However the subs are still out of sync.

After processing and getting the final output I find that the audio and subtitles are out of sync. By approximate 8 secs. I figured the problem was the company's logo which last for 8 secs at the begining of every disc that made everything else out of sync. What I did was I re-ripped the ifos from the dvd but I unchecked the first chapter which was exactly 8 secs, hence the new set of ifos did not contain the company logo.

I re-processed everything again, this time viola the audio was in sync with the anime but the subtitles was still 8 secs too slow. Hence the audio delay without chapter one (the one i omitted) was 0 sec but somehow the subtitle is still being indexed as if the starting company in existence. I know the duration of the delay but I just cannot figure out how to set it in the idx file.

At first I tried running a preview, as you know an idx will be created during the preview process. I edited the idx, setting -8000 ms (assuming my setting is correct, 8000 ms - 8 secs, a minus advances the subtitle), after which I added job and started the processing, however it seems that the subs are reindex a 2nd time when you actually start processing and the values which I set before earlier.

I'm not sure if I make any sense to you, but I really hope you can help me out here. I've re-encoded it for 8 times over already but I'm still not getting the right result and there isn't much help in the forums about resync-ing permanent subs.

Basically,

i) is there another way to resync permanent subs already embedded in the final avi file? if so, how and using what?

ii) assuming there is no way to resync permanently embedded subs, meaning i have to redo the whole thing whenever there is a out of sync for either audio or subs, how do i manually interfere with the autogk settings prior to actual processing?

iii) in this case it so just happens that the audio becomes in sync after i deleted the (8 secs company logo), however in the situation where the audio is out of sync without a "intervening chapter" how do i resync the audio?

[Mnl]

I don't know about question ii), but the answer to your first question is no, you cannot resync permanent subs. The answer to your third question, I think, is in the thread i posted above.

Just a quick question: Are you using the most recent version of DVD Decrypter in IFO mode (as explained in the guide (http://len0xmirror1.serveftp.net/~len0x/tutorial/AutoGK.html)) to rip your DVD's? Because if not this may be the cause of your subtitles problems.

hth, mnl

[spud1980]

Yes I'm using 3.2.1.0 I belive that is the latest?

I'm trying to encode the file without the subtitles embedded this time, using vobsub to extra the subs from the ifos manually, then I'm gonna try muxing them after adjustment. It seems that I can't "intervene" in between AutoGk's mechanism once I've clicked the start button.

Wish me luck.

[spud1980]

Can someone give me some direction as to how to mux subs into the avi post processing?

Can you resync subs like you do with audio in vdub?

Cheers.