coolhand

ive been playing with my orginal settings, i cant get the audio to sync up at all...allways about a second off after the first few min...back to mono i guess....

coolhand

ive got Lame installed, and the band of brothers episode im using as a test set to encode with 3 different audio settings...getting this sorted once and for all....now i just have to walk away from the computer for 6 hours or so while it spits out 3 divx files...

red-i

coolhand, are you using landscape or portrait? in portrait mode i have no sync issues (well at least for a 24min avi, which is the longest i've watched on the axim). i'm using 218kbit video, 2 pass, and 56kbit 22khz stereo sound using the standard fraunhoffer codec (if your original audio is 44khz don't forget to convert it to 22khz as well). oh and i'm using full framerate for the encodes

coolhand

portrait, 180/220 video-half/full frame rate, various audio settings...44, 22, stereo, mono....etc...like others i had been watching shorter vids, while encoding and testing longer vids for dropped frames etc, but not actually watching them...now ive discovered that the videos ive encoded, while they play great with only a couple droped frames, the audio is starting in sync, and going out of synch by a second or so for most of the movie....of course they play in perfict synch on the desktop, and aviinfo shows everything is ok...so, theres obviously more to this then preventing dropped frames...

ive got the same vid being encoded portrait, 220k, high, med and low audio settings.....will know in a few hours which one works best...

coolhand

i just cant get this to sync up properly with any settings.......wonder if divx 5.05 pro is causeing the probs...

red-i

i have no idea why you're getting problems. do you have alot running on your axim? I've got my 300 overclocked to 400 but even at 300 i can play stuff fine. i'm also using divx 5.05 pro

coolhand

im just puzzled now....im going to try an older version of divx and see whats going on....ive allready tried different mp3 codecs, two different versions of vdub...only other component is divx....

i cant see it being the axe, though i may try another version of pmvp....the axe will play everything from low quality half frame rate mono sound video to a high bitrate, full framerate, 128k stereo audio video with not a hickup....it just cant seem to get it together sync wise...

lsout

try windows movie maker and see if you get any sync problems there

red-i

i doubt you'd get any syncing issues with wmv.. Even at high res, even though I get dropped frames, the video/audio stays perfectly in sync.

coolhand, yo'ure sure you're not getting any sync issues when playing on your desktop? do you have anything else running while you're doing the encode?

coolhand

ive got some stuff running when i do the encodes, but ive got a 2ghz 512 meg rdram system, a few small utilities running shouldent matter....

as for windows media encoder, i cant get it to convert a divx file to wmv...

lsout

try and download windows movie maker 2.0 from microsoft i think that handles divx

Talyn

Movie Maker 2 only outputs .wmv files for Pocket PC.

Kinda sounds like coolhand is having about the same problem I had, which is why this thread exists to start with, although it also sounds like he's having problems in either viewing mode.

Near as I could tell, the whole issue I was having was getting two codecs together (along with the viewing window size and framerate) that would use roughly the same CPU resources, keeping the audio/video in sync. The problem I had with the 22Khz mono with almost any DivX bitrate was the video took more CPU so on the PPC the audio would play ~ 1 second before it should have, but the desktop was perfectly synched. In portrait view, those settings are fine, and with the Fraunhofer codec, but for landscape (so far at least) I have had to use the Lame codec, and stereo, to get the audio to stay synched.