Really need help! Sound skips continously.......AVI to DVD using TMGPEnc, VirtualDub, & IFOEdit.

Hope I'm posting in the right place.

I've never had luck converting AVI video to DVD format. I've recently added TMPGEnc Software Suite 2005 to my computer and have a quick question on it.

Which program do I use to convert AVI and/or mpeg files to DVD format? I can get the files to convert to mpeg-2 but this format never seems to play on my DVD player. Can I convert it to .VOB format?

There's six programs in this package to use. I'm GUESSING the 3rd or 5th option.

TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress v3.0.4.24
TMPGEnc DVD Author v1.6.34.89
TMPGEnc DVD Source Creator v2.1.3.8
TMPGEnc MPEG Editor v1.0.1.59
TMPGEnc Plus v2.524.63.181
TMPGEnc Sound Plug-in AC-3 v1.30

 

The process consists in 2 phases:

1) AVI (or whatever) --> M2V + audio
2) authoring

You seem to miss step 2. Try the good (and free IFOEdit). Just get it and do DVD Author__Author a new DVD.
It will ask to have a M2V, the an audio stream(s) to load and the subtitle(s) stream, if you want to.
Atrer loading it, click [OK] and you'll create a VOB set + IFO + BUP which will be the video_ts directory of your DVD.

 

sounds great. Thanks for your help.

One last question.....does the audio & video need to be in two parts first before using IFOEdit?

 

Yes. Most of the authoring tools need to have the audio and the video streams separated. If you don't have them in two parts, I think you can simply demultiplex the MPG. But it sounds strange, to me. Usually TMPGenc 2.5 (I don't know if also TMPGenc Suite does the same) creates video and audio separately (output: Movie.[M2V+WAV]).
Ah, if you have a good sound encoder, you can create the audio stream by your own and add it during authoring. TMPGenc wasn't a great sound encoder, from my memories.

 

I'll give it a shot. Thanks again!

 

Ok, so I used TMPGEnc to encode the AVI to DVD-MPEG and split the audio & video. From there I used IFOEdit, clicked on Author DVD and selected the video and audio files. Converted to .VOB format and opened in Nero. Burned to DVD+R media and tested on DVD player.

Picture looks GREAT!

BUT>>>>>>>>>>> There's no sound. Any ideas why???????????

 

Ok, figured out the sound issue, kinda.

I used VirtualDub-MPEG2 to get the audio saved then took the video and audio files and ran them through IFOEdit. I now HAVE sound with the video and it plays on my DVD player BUT now the sound "Shakes" for lack of a better term.

I audio plays but has miny-freezes every second it plays. Kinda like the dvd player isn't reading the audio fast enough to keep up with the video so it freezes & skips continuosly.

How do I fix this??????