AVI Converter

[k2gremlin]

Hey guys wondering if anyone knows a decent AVI to MPEG converter that doesnt mess the sound up ?

 

[4Ryan6]

I use Xilisoft

 

[k2gremlin]

how long does the trial last.. 30 days or 5 megs or what??

 

[k2gremlin]

Ohhh boy did I smell that one coming.. trial version only converts first 5 minutes!!! GRRRR.. I wanna be able to actually test the program before I dump 30 bucks on it 5 minutes doesnt tell me if the sound starts to trail off the actual video 45 mins into the video..

Can anyone confirm if thes programs works good or not?

 

[4Ryan6]

Can anyone confirm if thes programs works good or not?

I thought thats what I was doing, it works good enough for me to invest in the full version, and the good thing about the product is just how much converting its capable of doing it not only converts AVI to MPEG but to any format its capable of converting to, it will also convert ASF files in the pro mode not the wizard mode.

Did it successfully convert the first 5min of what you were after converting? If it did? Why wouldn't it be able to convert the whole thing? Just curious?

Any of the conversion programs really are dependent on available system memory even though they may specwise not claim to, at least 1g of system memory should be a safe zone for any converting processes, most everyone today with WinXP has at least that much onboard memory.

The more onboard memory you have the less page filing the program will have to do to complete the job, if sound corruption has been happening to you in the past what conversion program were you using? Sometimes sound corruption occurs because the file you're converting has what I call a website spike in it, a very short website ID that unless you playback in frame by frame replay you don't even know its there, and if you do a multiple file convert the sound gets off, I don't know what files you're converting but some porn sites are notorious for that.

Best way around that is to use a program that will allow you to cut out the spike section completely and the problem disappears, most capture modes of TV or Camera, capture in MPEG2 to start with because its the prefered format to convert to DVD. Converting AVI to MPEG2 is a process that you need to pre shutdown all background active programs such as Anti-Virus, AV trying to run in the background will cause sound corruption, and once the initial sound corruption has corrupted the conversion, that corruption tends to go to the end, but shutting down all background running programs should eliminate that completely.

Theres always DivX if you're familiar with that and most setop DVD players today are DivX playback capable, but DivX isn't free either at least the converter part isn't, but its trial version has more leeway if my memory serves me correctly. Hope this helps.

 

[4Ryan6]

Memory amount isn't your problem, but have you used a file joiner to merge multiple segments into a single file? If there are no website spikes in the original files to be merged then there shouldn't be a problem but thats not always so, sometimes its best if your intentions are to convert to MPEG2 for DVD writing not to merge the individual files, but let the DVD program handle them individually, cause when it plays back it will progressively go from one file to the next.

If you get sound corruption merged into the full file somewher in the middle it can throw off the end result, its like throwing a wrench in the process, and lastly the AVI file you're converting may playback seemingly error free in Windows Media Player but contain enough corruption to throw off a converter.

 

[The_OGS]

Easy - Nero!
NeroVision Express works great, but keep in mind that making a DVD video from AVI is like making orange juice from powder. It will have all the large filesize of DVD but only the quality of the much smaller AVI file.
It is very similar to making an audio CD from MP3s...
Regards

 

[k2gremlin]

Ok I dropped the bucks on this program and converted the file I wanted to convert and low and behold the farther into the movie it got the farther the sound was off.. like you would see the on screen action.. that 5 seconds later you hear the sound.. almost as if the sound was stretching off the file..

 

[NotAPimecone]

You might want to try virtualdub or something to decode the audio to an uncompressed wav, and save a version of the avi with that audio instead.

 

[Gah]

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