remuxing after encoding with CCE

Hi After pulling my hair out tring to get rempeg2 to work,it won't play very good on my stand alone, it kept freezing and strobing. So I decieded to give CCE a whirl,I was suppised at the short time it took encode and by the size of my M2V file (1.5gb) I tried remuxing with IFOEDIT, but sound was miles out of sync. I tried playing it through IFOEDIT and Win DVD and the picture was very slow, although the picture plays fine and looks good quality through windows media player.Where have I gone wrong, is it the remuxing? and will the picture play on a stand alone even if it would n't play on win dvd?

you cannot remux cce encoded files with ifoedit (it has to do with gop structures in your m2v file). only rempeg2 encoded files will do. you have to reauthor the whole thing. see the guides section : ifoedit and cce guide. the reauthoring should not scare you since it is quite easy with software like spruceup (one audio only) or dvdmaestro (multiple audios, subtitles, and so on) besided the amount of time required is still far less than time taken by the rempeg2 re encoding. and quality is just great ... good luck, erwan

C., I've just recently started using CCE, but I've had a similar problem to yours. My audio is out of synch by a few seconds (my video looks great though). The reason for the audio problem is that more than likely your m2v file is too short. At least that's what happens in my case. The m2v produced by my CCE cuts out the last 30 seconds or so of video and that in turn asynchs my audio. I'm currently working on figuring this out, but I dont even know where to start. If there's one thing you need to do is descrive your method in greater detail, that ususally helps people help you.

Thanks for the help, I have managed to get a fully working spruce up v1.1, it does look quite impressive so I will give it a go.

Figuring that out will take a long time i guess (i agree with Erwan). Because, again, it has to do with the GOP structure. When u use rempeg you'll see that it will analyze the GOP structure of the complete mpeg-stream. Then it will encode according to that analyzing. So finally you end up with a m2v file which has the EXACT same GOP structure. CCE cannot do this, so the resulting mpeg file is totally different than the original file, and will give you sync probs. For tmpgEnc there can be a template created in IfoEdit, but this is not a very good solution, and works from time to time. So if using CCE you really have to re-author the thing again. I don't think anybody has solved this problem with IfoEdit, and i don't think Derrow will be able to do this too (although i think Derrow is one of the best), because the problem is with CCE and not with IfoEdit. Afterall: CCE is not developed to re-mpeg DVD streams, like Rempeg. As for using Spruce (which is GREAT for home movies), i don't think it handles subtitles and AC3, but i can be wrong.

ac3 and spruceup 

it does handles AC3. but not subtitles :( so dvdmaestro is the next step ... erwan

Spruce Up and Audio Delay 

2 answer for ya: #1: Spruce up cannot handle 16:9 letterbox (or pan/scan) it does 4:3 peroid. So if you take a 16:9 off a dvd and re-encode in CCE then remaster with spruce-up it will come back as a very ugly 4:3. For 16:9 you need Maestro/Scenarist which are a little bit more complicated to use: Second for delayed audio. If you use DVD2AVI to extract the project/audio files you probably noticed the audio file name contains the delay. There is a great little utility called "Ac3 Delay Corrector" that will read this file and adjust it as specified automatically. HOWEVER if there are VOB ids (particularly at the start of the movie) that contain no audio (such as some logo, etc.) the audio will still be off. The best way, IMO, to get rid of this is to use IFOEdit and VOBRaptor to remove those VOB IDs. Good luck!

about spruce up not being able to handle 16:9, it is not a problem. you only have to correct it with ifoedit before you burn it. i did so for a number of dvd and never had to complain. erwan