VirtualDubMod, BeSweet and Bitrate Questions

[Kero777]

Thanks for your response.

Well, I'm working off the assumption that it isn't XviD itself that's causing the problems, but rather the hacks needed to store XviD (more specifically, when used with B-frames) in AVI that are the source of the desync.

I guess a simpler way of testing this would be to just disable B-frames entirely when you encode to AVI and see if that fixes it. If it does, you know the desync is the fault of the hacks needed to store B-frames in AVI. You'll take an efficiency hit, but if it's just that causing the problem, using MP4 or MKV should take care of it.

Nope: didn't seem to fix it. Maybe I have something checked off that's not supposed to be checked or something...?

The options for YAMB and MKVMerge that I outlined are meant to store the video stream the way it's supposed to be, which means no hacks, and hence there shouldn't be desync unless something else is wrong. It involves specifically analyzing the video and placing the frames correctly rather than trying to pack them together or do other wonky things with them.

I see. I'm still not quite sure how I'd convert the video before putting it through YAMB or MKVMerge. Every way I do it seems to make it off-sync.

With zarx264gui, that's not even XviD you're dealing with - it's H.264. And no, AAC shouldn't cause more or less desync problems than MP3. As H.264 is more hardware-intensive, though, maybe that was simply a result of your computer's processor not keeping up with how fast it needs to go to decode the content smoothly.

I do not think that is the case. I just bought a brand new computer and besides this problem, it seems to run very fast and smooth. *Sigh* I can't really disregard any possibilities though, because at this rate it could be any tiny little thing.

I also do not think it's my export from Vegas like Post-it suggested (like an error in a transition) because every video I export, transitions or not are off-sync after converting. Also, the lagarith and huffyuv exports play back 100% in-sync, but I can't be distributing those huge files.

*Sighs again* I'm going to try YAMB again in a few minutes. I bet it's going to be the tiniest little thing that I'm forgetting to do, someone will suggest it and I will feel like a complete idiot.