Bad DVD or bad VHS-DVD conversion

[Paganec]

Hey all.

I'm in process of trading with a guy who has a lot of VHS and he gets them onto DVD. All his DVDs go with some kind of defect I can not describe properly. I made a sample you can download:
http://fear-factory.ru/video/VTS_01_1.VOB

As you can see video and audio are not synced, video is like running away from the audio track and goes choppy. My point is that he just doesn't know how to convert VHS to DVD while he claims that his VHS has this defect. Its like 4th shows with bad conversion. I'm not a big VHS expert but I doubt all VHS can have this kind a problem.

What do you guys think of it ? He just badly did conversion ?

[porcelmc]

get him to trade you his actual VHS copies and do the conversion yourself or have someone else do it. I have never seen a VHS tape with out of sync audio, but it could be possible I guess.

Maybe ask him what region the VHS tapes are (PAL/NTSC/SECAM) and what he is making the dvds. Converting a PAL VHS to NTSC DVD can be tricky, but at the same time it can be done.

[Sepu]

yeah maybe he converted NTSC to PAL or PAL to NTSC.
I bought a lot of hardware years ago to transfer VHS in DVD, I wanted to be able to do all the formats PAL/SECAM/NTSC but finally there are always problems...

[Paganec]

Thanks guys for responses

[porcelmc]

yeah maybe he converted NTSC to PAL or PAL to NTSC.
I bought a lot of hardware years ago to transfer VHS in DVD, I wanted to be able to do all the formats PAL/SECAM/NTSC but finally there are always problems...

Yeah dude I hear ya, it was a pain in the ass for me. I have a VCR, that I've had since 99, that reads all formats. But my conversion hardware was only rated for NTSC. I had to get the manufacturer to send me a PAL software patch to accept and convert PAL on my laptop. This was about 5 years ago but I remember I was able to do it. I converted a VHS I recorded from MTV2 in London that did a 20 Years of Rock special. Ended up coming out great, and I think I either torrented it or vined it at Metal Devastation. Now the only problem is I cant remember what I pushed it out as, PAL or NTSC. I know for sure it started out as PAL though.

[porcelmc]

Thanks guys for responses

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