weird problem with burning a vcd using nero

Hi everyone,

I'm a newbie, so hopefully this is the right place to put this thread...

I had an .avi file and converted to mpeg1 using TMPGEnc. I play the file and everything looks great. I then split the file into 2 pieces using TMPGEnc again. I burn the first file to vcd using Nero and it plays perfectly. However, when i burn the second file, I then play the vcd and there seems to be a 1 millescond delay between audio and video. Also, there are times where the frame pauses a bit. I'm not sure what's the problem. I try playing the 2nd file in Nero (before I burn it), and there doesn't seem to be any choppiness in video or delay between video and sound. Until i burn it. I'm using Nero 5.5. What really confuses me is that burning the first file was okay but the second one seems to be messed up.

Can someone please help me with this problem? I don't know if there's a problem until after I burn the cd, so at this rate, I think I'll run out of a spindle soon.

THank you

Rico

 

The Problems you are Haveing are caused from different things..I think the Sync problem is caused by useing Tmpgenc to To Split the File in Two..The "merge & cut" Function has a tendancy to Not cut the audio and Video on the same Frames so you can get sync problems on some Cut files...I would suggest useing a different Editor to cuz your files ,Idealy if you can get ahold of a program called "Mpeg2VCR" to edit your files then they should not go out of Sync ,But if you can get it you can try useing the editor that is here :
http://www.marumo.ne.jp/mpeg2/m2v_vfp-0.6.47.lzh
In the Folder is a files named "mme.exe" this is the editor ,But a very important thing to remember use the setting to make All of your Cuts on an I Frame...
The Problem you are getting with the Choppy playback sounds like your are getting "Bitrate spikes" which is common with files encoded by Tmpgenc ,What happens is the Bitrate in the Files will suddenly Jump really High and your DVD Player can not spin the CD-R fast enough to read the Increased Data rate so you get Choppy Playback from your DVD Player trying to catch up ,You can also get Simular problems if you Burn your SVCD"s at too High of a Speed ...You should Burn your Movies at the lowest speed You can ,Like 4X or 8X max...When I used to use Tmpgenc I had all of the problems you are describeing and was only able to overcome these problems by switching to a different encoder..MainConcept encoder is a Good one to switch to as it Produces simular Quality files but it is MUCH faster than Tmpgenc when it comes to encodeing speed and it doesn"t have the Bitrate controll Problems that Tmpgenc has and it has a setting were you can set the Mux file size and it will split the Files as soon as it gets to the max file size...Cheers