Re: [dvd::rip] SVCD split problem // audio sync update

[Jan Hördt <jan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

sorry for my kind of monologue - only once interupted by Jörn. I hope that 
these mails are at least interesting for someone else.

For the audio sync issue: I found out that this was specific to that movie 
I was encoding - other movies work fine.

For the mpeg2enc & mplex options: Using the "dvd::rip default" settings (5 
with mpeg2enc, 4 with mplex) I recieve mpeg files which nearly have the 
same size - as selected via "Target media". Using both "4" with mpeg2enc & 
mplex I get the same amount of files, but the last one is not of the same 
size as the former ones.

I assume that this has to do with a kind of vbr, but I didn't find any 
information on the net which describes the (technical) difference between 
the "user SVCD" and "standard SVCD" and the impact on the disk size/amount 
yet. Only found some discussions regarding this topic here on the mailing 
list...

Cheers,

  Jan (again)

Jan Hördt wrote:
> UPDATE: Now I listened to my happily generated and finally correct 
> splitted mpegs, and there is a big audio sync issue (about one second 
> delay) I didn't encounter with any VCD yet.
>
> Right now I'm encoding with the "4" option both in mpeg2enc and mplex. 
> If that doesn't help I'll play around with transcode's -M/-D options. 
> And if that doesn't help I'm switching back to VCD :-(
>
> Frustrated,
>
>   Jan
>
> Jan Hördt wrote:
>
> > Hi Jörn,
> >
> > many thanks for your reply.
> >
> >  > Good question. I need to crawl through CVS (and my mail archives) -
> >  > probably I find some hints why I decided to do it this way (the
> >
> > The only thing I found is a message from you stating that this seems 
> > to be a bug and will be fixed in the "next release":
> >
> >   http://www.exit1.org/archive/dvdrip-users/2003-02/msg00122.html
> >
> > Either you forgot to change this or you changed it back (or didn't 
> > change it in the first place) for a good reason.
> >
> > I think that mplex-ing with -f 4 is always a good thing when demanding 
> > a "Standard SVCD", but I can't find any reason why not encoding with 
> > -F 4. Maybe I'll encode one movie both ways and do some testing with 
> > various stand-alone players... ...next week there will be cheap 
> > SVCD-capable DVD players at Aldi ;-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >   Jan