I have burned off 2 different dvds using dvdSanta. They were both avi files that the program encoded. Here's the problem. On both of them, about half way through, the audio starts to fall out of sync with the video. At first I thought the avi file might be corrupt, but I checked it and it was fine. After having the same problem with another file, I'm deducing it to the fact that dvdSanta might not work as well as I had hoped. The only other consideration is the file size. Both of them were approx. 700MB. Would that make a difference? Does anyone know how to fix this? Or should I just get another conversion program? Any recommendations?
I had the same problem when capturing SVHS tape to my hard disk using Turtle Beach's Video advantage PCI card. They have two different software programs to capture - one is called "PowerDirector" and this one gave me the same synch problems you speak of but it was capturing to a .mpg file. The other software included with the card is called AD FullCap and it has a setting to 'sync using stream offset'. This solved my problems with out of sync. I don't know what hardware / software you used to capture, but you probably need to find a way to do something similar. This probably isn't much help, but it's the best I can tell you. I'm a newbie at this myself! Good luck, /mike
DVD Santa has always worked for me but you could try Vso DivxToDVD. You can download this from this site
Thanks for the suggestions. I bought a canopus ADVC 110 and now life is better. The only problem I had was with Windows 2K not recognizing the device, or should I say the "Let's Capture" software that comes with the ADVC 110 would not see the device. According to the website, you should be able to get away with using W2K SP3. I loaded up SP3 (was at SP2), and then SP4 when that didn't work. I could capture with the device and W2K using main actor and other software - AVI_IO and others, but I still had some minor A/V sync problems. I finally broke down and bought and installed a copy of Windows XP. Now I can use Let's capture that came with the ADVC 110 and it works pretty good. Thanks for the ideas. /mike
ive tried both dvd santa and divx to dvd and ive burned some avi and mpg tv shows some of them are perfect but the others in the middle will suddenly get out of synch im gna try dvd santa one more time if anyone has any other ideas please tell me soon this is driving me crazy aim sn:videogamer248 OK i just tried again and now audio is out of sync thoughout the whole show this is a mpg of csi so someone please please help me soon ill be on aim right now so if anyone wnts to im me to help me id really appreciate tht aim sn is videogamer248 ok heres another update to my problem i just opened the video_ts files i converted and put em in dvd shrink u can preview on tht and its out of sync so is it a problem with the conversion?? please help soon and now again another update i realized most of the ones tht have worked perfectly were avi files and so far only one mpg file worked perfect does this mean anythin??OK now another thing has happened to make this problem even wierder to me i had an avi movie i decompressed the sound and used dvd santa and it was in synch so does this mean only avi files i can burn or is there something to decompress mpg sound or something like tht someone help soon so i can fully understand this soon thanks alot in advance to whoever is nice enough to help me with this
