Well, you could go to the other suggestion I mention which was to extract the audio and convert it yourself. Then with this new stream you can mux the .mpg video (which works for you) and the re-encoded audio together into a new file that will be in sync.
Well, the DivX option won't work. It used 6GB for the first 3 minutes; this is a 2-hour concert. Any other suggestions to convert WMV to a DVD? Thanks, Aiko
Jigen: I don't get how separating the audio from the video before converting is going to keep it in sync. I would expect that I would have to resync the audio manually. Could you please either point me to a good guide on how to do this or explain it in greater detail? Thanks, Aiko
Ok, you are getting frustrated, but I assure you that you are on the right path. 6gb for 3 minutes is really large, but we are saving as AVI and so the size isn't unexpected, but you have control over how big it gets. Also, once you use TMPGEnc or whatever you will use to convert to MPG this size will be greatly reduced. I am going out for awhile, but I will be back later and would be glad to post further info when I return.
Ok, the way you control the size is to pick what codec Stoik uses to encode with. You selected divx, but what codec? From the output profiles tab in Stoik, where is says compressor, that is where you choose the codec. Uncompressed produces huge files, but excellent quality can be retained. Other codecs like MS MPEG-4 v2 will give ok quality with much, much smaller file sizes. The codec I personally use is PICVideo MJPEG. Not free, but an excellent codec that treads the line between good quality with massive file size and smaller files with good quality. Also remember that when you encode to MPG for the final step before burning authoring and burning, your file size will be greatly reduced. For instance a 24-26GB avi of a 2hr show will produce around a 2-3gb file when compressed to a 2hr DVD by a program like TMPGEnc.
Go here, http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Mega_Codec_Pack.htm and get the new "K-Lite Mega Pack 1.51" and install it on your system, then configure. Run your file through G-Spot or other codecs and it should fix the audio (out of sync). Good luck!!
Jigen: you said a large AVI would be compressed down. The few AVI to DVD I have done, I used Nero Vision 4 (From Nero 7 Ultra), and it expanded the AVI some three-fold. I guess I am doing it wrong. Most of what i get is already DVD compliant, but when I get the odd AVI or this WMV, I am somewhat lost. And this out-of-sync is my bane. Thanks for your patient feedback, Aiko
Well when you go from avi to mpeg2 you are going to enlarge the output file considerably as you are changing the file properties but making it dvd compliant
Taking a Divx encoded avi (like most DLd material) and encoding it as Mpeg DOES increase it's size, but usually it's the other way around. I used to capture TV to avi all the time, and a 44 minute show would yield an 18gb avi file using the MJPEG codec. After using TMPGEnc to encode it though it was reduced to 1.8gb.
Look, we're getting completely off the subject. He's not working with a 700mb divx he's got a WMV that he want's to convert to DVD. If he already had an AVI we could go right to conversion to MPG and not even use Stoik at all! I will say again, that if you use a codec that doesn't compress as much as divx (like HuffYUV or MJPEG) for making the interim AVI (keeping as much quality as possible this way) then you end up with a MASSIVE AVI file made from the WMV, and that's totally expected and normal. THEN when you use TMPGEnc to ADD compression it will SHRINK the MASSIVE nearly UNCOMPRESSED AVI down to a manageable size. Usually the resulting MPG (that is then used to author into video_ts) is 10x SMALLER than the AVI you started with. I've done it 100's of times and have 100's of discs done this way, so take that as you will.
"He's not working with a 700mb divx he's got a WMV that he want's to convert to DVD. If he already had an AVI we could go right to conversion to MPG and not even use Stoik at all!" Well, actually, I created an AVI, but that was out of sync, so I need to either convert WMV to DVD compliant, or create an AVI that is not out of sync that I can then author to DVD. I will defer to the experts in this forum as to the best way to achieve my desired end result. I looked at the various codec options in Stoik, and I had no lue which to use. As far as running the file through k lite to correct the out-of-sync problem, I have not tried that yet, though I would appreciate a little more detail (i.e.: Do I run the file through before or after converting to AVI?) Thanks for everyone's continued feedback, Aiko
