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My main complaints about DVDFlick were: long encoding time, limited number of files supported, and audio/video sync issues.
The majority of the audio/video sync issues are resolved by marking the radio button to 'ignore avi offsets'. An AVI is not a file, it's a wrapper, and they all have offset times set in ms in there. While the file works for playback as an AVI just fine, when encoded the encoder will try to 'live by' those offsets and they result in an out of sync finished product on DVD.
It took me a coaster to find out about ignoring offsets, it fixed most of the issues. As I give this tip around the net on forums I find many people have their issues resolved. When you have... say an AVI loaded in DVDFlick, choose 'edit title' in the upper right, click on 'audio tracks'. then highlight the track or tracks one by one and choose 'edit' to the right. Put a check in the box for 'Ignore audio delay for this track' on each and every audio track. That tells DVDFlick to ignore the AVI offsets and sync the video/audio up on it's own terms. This resolves most if not all of the problems.
So try that. Hope that helps.
My question about the long encoding time is if you are getting a better final product, meaning multiple passes(that option has been removed in latest version though so I suspect a constant bit rate now), or the open source engine simply takes longer than something like ConvertXtoDVD, which does a good job with a single pass. When you move to TMPGEnc Plus or the like you get much longer multiple pass encoding times that may well go for 12 hours. But the output quality is better by a sometimes noticeable margin, other times little difference except how much you can customize menus and whatnot.
Anyone know that stuff well and can answer?
The majority of the audio/video sync issues are resolved by marking the radio button to 'ignore avi offsets'. An AVI is not a file, it's a wrapper, and they all have offset times set in ms in there. While the file works for playback as an AVI just fine, when encoded the encoder will try to 'live by' those offsets and they result in an out of sync finished product on DVD.
It took me a coaster to find out about ignoring offsets, it fixed most of the issues. As I give this tip around the net on forums I find many people have their issues resolved. When you have... say an AVI loaded in DVDFlick, choose 'edit title' in the upper right, click on 'audio tracks'. then highlight the track or tracks one by one and choose 'edit' to the right. Put a check in the box for 'Ignore audio delay for this track' on each and every audio track. That tells DVDFlick to ignore the AVI offsets and sync the video/audio up on it's own terms. This resolves most if not all of the problems.
So try that. Hope that helps.
My question about the long encoding time is if you are getting a better final product, meaning multiple passes(that option has been removed in latest version though so I suspect a constant bit rate now), or the open source engine simply takes longer than something like ConvertXtoDVD, which does a good job with a single pass. When you move to TMPGEnc Plus or the like you get much longer multiple pass encoding times that may well go for 12 hours. But the output quality is better by a sometimes noticeable margin, other times little difference except how much you can customize menus and whatnot.
Anyone know that stuff well and can answer?
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