I have used Bradish's tutorial to encode many videos for playback on my x50v with much success. The movie "Click" I could not copy at all for some reason. But I'm now trying to encode "Pirates - Dead Man's Chest" and all seems to work great but when I play it - either with my pda or computer, the audio is about a second and a half ahead of the video. I'm using TCPMP on my pda and regular windows media player on my computer.

Am I doing something wrong or is the video protected in some way to keep me from encoding it this way.

Thanks in advance.

well.... If you do a 2-pass encoding, sometimes this is just an automatic thing. However.... If the file is huge (like 700 to 1+ GB) then the media player will have a hard time keeping track of everything. What I tend to do for larger files is first open your media player. Then with the media player open, double click the video to start it playing. Right away hit the stop/pause button. Move the slider through the movie (Middle, then end) and then back to the very begining (0:00)...Then hit play. This way, it has somewhat buffered the movie, and does not have to "think" as hard to see ahead.... This may help

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What software did you use to rip it? Have you watched the DVD rip? Is the audio off there?
Can you provide more general information on how you riped and encoded it?

Thanks for the input.

I tried letting my computer and my pda load the movie - ran it thru and back to the beginning - to try and get the movie catch up with the audio but nothing worked. It's very consistent - about 1 1/2 second between the audio and video - with the vidio being behind the audio.

I followed Bradish's tutorial using DVD Decrypter, AutoGordianKnot and TCPMP.
I used all of the parameters in the tutorial, even the 475 mb output file size. All of the other movies I've ripped work great - this is the first on with the lag.

Thanks

Try to establish if it was the rip or the encode. Look a the original rip and see if all is ok there.

You could try this piece of software. http://yaai.sourceforge.net/ takes some geting used to, but works quite well. You select a portion of the film, to loop through, and then sync the audio.
There is also a good tutorial using virtual dub on the virtual dub website about this.