DVD Maker sound & picture out of snyc

[Guest]

I don't know if anyone else had had this problem, but I somewhat successfully
burned movies to DVD using the Windows DVD Maker. Only problem is the sound
and picture are out of sync. I hear the sound first, then the picture to
match is about 2-3 seconds delayed. Anyone else had and/or solved this issue?

I've already wasted 3 DVDs thanks to the wonderful "help" at HP. Vista was
preloaded on my notebook so I don't think I can get support from Microsoft &
HP doesn't really have any knowledge about Windows products. Any help would
be much appreciated!

 

[John Barnes]

I had the same problem when I had a slower cpu. What are you recording
from?

 

[Guest]

Directly from files on my hardrive. And this is a new computer so it's not
slow, though I have managed to already use 94% of the system storage. I
converted a dvr-ms file into mpg then tried to burn it to dvd. Essentially
I'm trying to get the files off my computer to free up my hardrive. Plus
it's nice to be able to play the movies anywhere on DVD.

 

[John Barnes]

Have you tried playing your mpg file to see if it has the problem. Your
conversion file may be the source of the problem. Many new computers have
slow cpu's and also almost all programs will run on only one core of a dual
core system and are only as fast as one core runs, many times slower than a
fast single core.

 

[Guest]

That's what I did first. I checked the files and they played perfectly. And
thanks for the rest of the info on the single vs dual core system. Any more
thoughts of anything I might check?

 

[Guest]

So I just tried to burn the same files using Roxio and the DVD came out fine.
The sound & picture matched right up as it should. There's just something
wrong in the Windows DVD Maker software that causes this issue. I like the
menu options on the Windows software much more than the Roxio software so I'd
really like to figure out some way to make it work.

 

[John Barnes]

You might try posting in the newsgroup for the DVD Maker maybe the
microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video

 

[Guest]

Anyone else?

 

[AnthonyR.]

Anyone else?

well I had sound out of syn when playing dvd's in media player, I had
corrupted mpg decoders, but vista has no easy way to fix that, no easy way
to assign codecs used and make registry changes for you. I tried so many
things until I corrupted my registry enough that I had to do a clean install
of vista.

The good news is the dvd players great now, not out of sync.
The bad news is, Vista says my cd key is already in use and won't activate
automatically online so I need to call soon and spend 20 minutes playing the
recite the number game with some human to re-activate a legal copy that I
just reloaded to fix a problem that the OS shouldn't have developed to begin
with.

Ah technology, don't you just love it?

AnthonyR.