Audio out of sync with video

[jeralph]

Just burned my first DVD after capturing from an old VHS. The audio is lagging behing the video by about 2 seconds. I captured the video using DVD Maker, and I thought I captured as DVD format, but the files are MPEG.

Does the video capture option in MovieMaker work as advertised? Would I be better off using it for capture?

[sjj1805]

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[jeralph]

Forgot that:

Source file was MPEG, about 2.2 hours so...maybe 4GB

Kworld PCI card using DVD Maker PCI, PVR software
Input: Composite from a standard NTSC VCR
Output: DVD format

Disc plays in an Apex DVD or on the PC, but sound is lagging by ~2 sec

[td0804]

you don't mention how you captured audio- i've hada lot of problems with audigy cards and replaced them with turtle beach and eliminated the lg

[heinz-oz]

Forgot that:

Source file was MPEG, about 2.2 hours so...maybe 4GB

Kworld PCI card using DVD Maker PCI, PVR software
Input: Composite from a standard NTSC VCR
Output: DVD format

Disc plays in an Apex DVD or on the PC, but sound is lagging by ~2 sec

If you managed to squeeze 2.2 hours into 4GB file size, what were the capture settings? Also, for your information DVD file format is mpeg2.

[maddrummer3301]

>>you don't mention how you captured audio- i've hada lot of problems with audigy cards and replaced them with turtle beach and eliminated the lg

The Audigy cards use a common hardware bus. This bus is called "What you hear" and can be selected for recording (mixing all the inputs).
Also, creative feature of "Monitor while recording" conflicts" with recording software.
The 2 second delay is probably caused by the software programs audio recording the wrong selected channel.
It depends on how the software is accessing the soundcard.

On one of my Audigy cards the sound lags by 2 seconds selecting the wrong inputs in the audigy mixer.
If the captured audio in coming in on "Auxillary" or "Line In" then the following settings are used.
Recording Channel set to "Line In".
"Line In" must be MUTED (go figure).
Monitor while recording is OFF.
Playback of the correct audio is redirected to the "Wav Out" channel
and that is how you will monitor/listen to the recording.
It's because of the hardware chips audio outputs are connected to a common bus on the card and that is the "What you hear" feature.
This also depends on the software program your using to record.

I also depends on the analog capturing device.
Like said above if having problems replace it. They are hard to get the settings correct and are different for the capturing device and recording software.

My favorite soundcards are made by M-Audio. 24bit/96khz low latency.

Hope this helps,

MD