can anyone tell me what the best settings are for pocket mvp to get the smoothest video? occasionally, i've noticed that some videos sound will be slightly behind the characters mouths. i've also noticed that playing around with drop tolerance and filtering can change this, but i'm not sure whats the best. can anyone explaine what these two options do? thanks

poppaj

PS - this dosent happen with I play the file on my laptop with Windows Media player, so it has to be the PPC

PPS- perhaps the audio on this video didnt get encoded right. i remember getting a message on V Dub when i opened it saying something about it compressing it differently, and if this was unacceptable to recompress it again afterword. i have to check into it

poppaj

What type of source are you using to compress your .avi? Was it in sync to start with? What was the exact message in VirtualDub? What codecs and settings are you encoding at?

As for the audio sync when playing back on the Pocket PC - I had the same thing, only the opposite of what you're getting, when using the normal Fraunhofer MP3 codec in mono. Now I only use the Lame MP3 codec, and everything always stays in sync.

In VirtualDub's Framerate dialog, if the 'Change so video and audio durations match' option is enabled, that's a clue that the source video is slighly out-of-sync to begin with, and may get progressively worse as you re-encode it.

yes, it was in sync to start with, its funny too, because its totally in sync when i play it on my laptop with windows media player. i do however now think it has something to do with the dubbing.

the 'change so video and audio durations match' option is not checked. i've been using divix to encode, with MPEG Layer 3 audio, just like the guide suggested. i've basically been following the guide to a T, but am now going to start experimenting. I want to start encodein at a 144 bitrate, instead of the suggested 128. and I was thinking about playing around with that audio skew option in interleaving. how do you encode with the Lame MP3 codec? i dont see it on the list

as for the origional error message, when i get home back to the file, i will pull it up again and post it, and the origional source codec was either divx or xvid, not sure. thanks!

poppaj