Posts Tagged ‘video conversion’

12.05.2009
very-funny-video-filters-and-glitches-in-audio

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Very funny: video filters and glitches in audio

I always keep a smaller divx or xvid encode of dvds on hand on external hard disks. Easier if I still want to watch something without taking out the dvd. At the end of the Diamond DVD I had trouble getting it ripped right. Every so-and-so seconds the audio would glitch. Perhaps it’s the program I used, but I don’t understand since it did the rest correctly. Extra protection? Who knows. I just did it in a different way now, by using DVD2AVI with Decode/ Dolby Surround Downmix as explained in this guide.

Before that I installed graphedit again, registered a couple of filters. After that my mpg’s wouldn’t play anymore so I had to unregister all filters. >.< Thankfully I noticed it now instead of a week later because I wouldn’t be able to trace it back to the filter installation.

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11.21.2009
ts-conversion

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TS conversion

I geeked and I found it. The primary reason why I wasn’t able to get the audio stream was because DVD2AVI is no longer developed and pretty old. It’s successor is: dgmpgdec156. To make a long story short I managed to get an AAC file from the project save done on this tool based on the old DVD2AVI. AAC can be played by my winamp and thus it can be written to disk as WAV. Hence, I could encode the two together in virtualdub as usual. I will make an attempt to write this down at Solstice Productions tutorials.

I also found a good tip for mp4 conversion (freeware): mp4cam2avi.

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11.21.2009
video-formats

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Video formats…

I’ve been out of this game for a long time, and I’m going to pay a high fine for this one. I just got in a few TS files (PIN on MS to be exact;). I love doing my own encodes but… utter fail. I only get image on BSplayer (no sound) and the latest version of VideoLan stalls on Audio if converted to mpeg2 AND it holds the first frame of the video. Both these programs will play TS right (audio + video).

Not even a year old, but it fails this method. Besides that, VideoLan has had a pretty big makeover so I have to find every button again. I don’t think I’ve set anything wrong in the new version, but I am only getting sound on the TS on all programs. I’ve *** around with all kinds of programs and codecs. Installed AC3 anew, FFdshow, the works. There’s probably tons of programs that are paid, but I could do this zero-paid by merely using videolan before… so this kind of sucks and I know some of you hax0r out there know how it’s done without paying a penny (yah, unless I have to shakes the intarwebs down).

May the fourCC be with you.

All this codec crap just got worse, for sure.

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03.05.2009
so-i-encoded-my-own-version

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So I encoded my own version

Alright, so I’m an anal perfectionist. Something nobody would have thought about me, I’m sure. I just had to re-encode the VOB I just found of the new Arashi PV. I downloaded like 3 or 4 versions of it and the quality drove me nuts. Had one version, which was letterboxed (black edges). I hate letterboxed. Then there was a version slightly acceptable if it weren’t for the crappy quality (blocky). Another version had a wrong aspect ratio. I think it’s because general dvd ripping tools provide 720×480 by default. Establishing the correct aspect ratio is a lot more work and requires more skill.

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I converted the VOB with what little I have installed on this pc, which caused me a problem somehow. It had major sync issues. Despite I’m a little slow in the head today, I managed to fix it. I timed it according to Sho’s rap, which gives you the best indication. Johnny’s are so lazy with lip-sync, I have a hard time ironing out the files. Sometimes I think they do it on purpose “Feles, try ironing that one out!”. Boys, I see worse at work every day. lol.

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