Synching-up sound and video on ReplayTV?

[CTC Command]

I have a friend with a ReplayTV (I'm not "the friend"--I have a dish player 500) and he has been taping movies on it then trying to copy them onto dvd. When he pulls them onto his computer he has been experiencing a problem when he tries to edit out the commercials--the audio loses synchronization with the video towards the end of the movie. So he has to manually split the audio and video and slightly extend the sound over the course of the movie then splice them back together. He already has Womble to fix the encoding, but it won't do audio stretching--so he has been converting the mpeg2 audio file to a wav using a winamp plugin, then stretching the audio and reconverting back to mpeg2 and reassemble. Is there a program out there that can easily re-synch the two aspects of the recording?

[DigitalJunkie]

Couple of days ago, I saw a guy on Screensaver at TechTV showing how to transfer taped show to his computer using Replay with some utilities. You should go to Screensavers.com & check their show archive, it may help.

[CCSDUDE]

Well a long drawn out way would be...

1) Hook the DVCR (tivo or whatever) to your videocards input...
2) Capture to mpeg2 and pause/FFW at commercials then restart a few seconds before the commercial ends...
3) Edit out those 1-5 second bursts of crap and splice it all together in a mpeg2 capable editor like Tmpeg.

He could also try Tmpeg on whatever streams he's pulling right now. Don't think I ever had a problem with syncing on Tmpeg.

Also..he does have a DVDRW drive, correct? I suppose if he does he's using their 'kiddie' editing software. I tried that and did get some lag on the audio once the editing was finished but never figured out how or why since it wasn't my system.

Lastly he could probably use Tmpeg on the last section thats unsynced and then combine all the cleaned up sections in Tmpeg then add chapters via his DVDRW authoring application.

Hope some of that makes sense or helps in a small way. :wings