OK, here's my situation. I have my PC set up to capture digital TV feeds into DVD-compliant mpegs. Recently, I tried to extract clips from the mpegs using VirtualDub, converting the video to XviD & keeping the audio as MPEG-2. Everything looked OK, but after about 10-15 seconds into any clip the audio begins to desync. Turns out VirtualDub is converting the MPEG-2 audio into PCM audio. Seems that's to blame for the a/v falling out of sync...plus it bloats the filesize up quite a bit. I was wondering if the .avi standard just can't handle mpeg2 audio, if it's a problem with VirtualDub, or maybe a solvable problem with my personal set-up. (The audio stream is CBR MPEG-2 Audio @ 224kbps) Thanks in advance for any help guys!
I don"t think you can use Mp2 audio in AVI files... You can use Tmpgenc to convert Mpeg-2 to AVI and you can use "DVD2AVI" and you can use Pretty Much any Video editing Program like Vegas Video or Adobe Premier or any video editing program.... There are so many programs that will do this that I am haveing a Hard time thinking of Converting/Editing programs that Can"t do it so i"m sure you will find something.... There is a free converting program called "Stoik Video Converter" that will convert from Mpeg-2 to AVI but you will need to have a Mp3 audio codec installed to encode the audio to Mp3 and a Direct show compatible Mpeg-2 decoder installed so the Program can read the Mpeg-2 file...... Cheers
Thanks for the reply. I'm not having any problems with the video, just the audio. (I have all the needed codecs and such installed) Well, I guess if avi can't handle mp2 audio at all...could someone recommend a program for converting from mpeg2 audio to mpeg3 audio? I just have video apps ATM. Thanks!
You don"t need anything to Convert the audio to Mp3 accept a MP3 codec...Virtual-Dub can encode the audio to Mp3 and so Can Tmpgenc and every other Program I mentioned as Long as you have an MP3 codec installed..... Cheers
