Convertion DivX to SVCD Problem

[mvrk]

Hi i've got some DivXs with the audio track encoded in MP3 but with variable bit rate instead of a constant bit rate, and when i try to convert it to SVCD with TMPGEnc the resulting movie gets desynched with the audio.
I've tryied to extract the audio from the .avi with some progs and then encode video and audio separatly but i get the same result video and audio not synch.
When i try to open the .avi in VirtualDub it says that is going to decode it to a CBR and that it could add some skew up to 6000ms.

Anyone know a way to resolve this problem???

[setarip]

Converting .AVIs with VBR-MP3 Audio

Simply use VirtualDub to save the audio stream as an Uncompressed PCM (WAV) file as follows:
Load your original .AVI into VirtualDub
From the "File" dropdown menu, select "Save WAV" (Enter a new filename with a ".WAV" extender).Click on "OK"
Then set "Video" to "Direct Stream Copying"
Then save the .AVI as a silent .AVI (set "Audio" to "No audio" after you've saved the WAV file).

Then close VirtualDub and restart it
Set "Audio" to "No audio"
Load your silent .AVI
Set "Video" to "Direct Stream Copying"
Under "Audio" click on "WAV Audio" and load your .WAV
Set "Audio" to "Full Processing Mode"
From the "Audio" dropdown menu, select "Compression" and choose the appropriate .MP3 settings. Click on "OK"
From the "File" dropdown menu, select "Save as AVI" and save your file with a new filename.

[DrinkOrDie]

OK, fine. nice and clear answer but what is the "appropriate setting" when I want the output movie to be SVCD ready? everything was clear until you said "appropriate ...setting"

It's like telling someone to "send me a screenshot" to someone who has no clue how to do it. (I do, just making an analogy)

So what are the "appropriate audio settings" nothing in the choices refers to SVCD

[DrinkOrDie]

set the audio to "appropriate settings" none of the choices have are the correct bitrate for any friggen thing. I always thought wav was uncompressed, PCM, whatever, and I see the point of turning it to a wav to elimate the bitrate variable in the original avi. personally I think it's the dumbest thing on earth to use a variable bit rate. I have never used it on MP3 simply because of the implications.

But nothing tells me what to set the audio to in virtual dub. set the bitrate to match the source wav? (can't) set to PCM? when you say set audio, do I set it to match PCM, match what windows says the bitrate of the wav is, or what? 'cmon. there are 3 different bitrates I'm dealing with (1. the original. 2. the bitrate that the wav plays back as 3. the bitrate I need the target to be for SVCD, another I've forgotten?)and you just say "appropriate setting"

SHEEEAT! You were doing great, then decided to get vague. By the time you clear it up, I'll probably have it figured out by just guessing and encoding another (but finally successful?) SVCD mpeg-2. Thus far, I have yet to create a satisfactory SVCD conversion but I'm getting closer with each good guess and each wasted hour.

So close, then I had to guess again.

[DrinkOrDie]

awww. forget it. even if I did figure out the "appropriate audio setting" the friggen output of the silent video ends up being over a gig after processing just a few seconds of video. I doubt that a 250 gig HD would be enough to hold the entire "silent AVI" let alone have room to process it all.

You've been help at all. Useless info. terrible results.

[pieroxy]

Well, I'll try to answer your questions, ene though shouting at and insulting people is not really the best way to get help.

From setarip

Set "Video" to "Direct Stream Copying"

I guess you forgot that step, that is why you have a huge video. This setting tells VD to copy the video stream without re-encoding it, so it should be the same size as the original one.

A wav file was originally containing only PCM audio. WAV is now a container format (like AVI) where you can fit pretty much any audio you want, as soon as you have the right codec.

Appropriate setting for a is MPEG1-layer2, 44.1kHz, under 384kbps. Of course here he was not talking about that but talking about getting an AVI file that will work right TMPGEnc. So I guess the "Appropriate Setting" is the highest bitrate your codec can do. I would even recommend PCM audio... that would get a huge file (like around 600MB/hour for the soundtrack) but at least you will have no quality loss and you can feed the beast to TMPGEnc the same. After all, it is a temporary AVI file that you will use to feed TMPGEnc and delete after...