Ok I am at my wits end here. I have some Anime that I downloaded. Its the first season of Initial D. I have all 26 episodes in English, however the uploader of these clearly went mad and half way through at episode 15 changed over the compression and such he was using. Up until episode 15 he used OGM files. I had no trouble taking the OGM files apart and putting them back togather as a AVI using VirtualDub Mod. Now when he switched over he went with MKV files. I was able to take those apart as well resulting in 2 files. A Avi video which is fine, and the Audio file which is AAC format (OMG I HATE IT) I have tryed to convert the AAC file with Foobar but it keeps spitting out a error code and wont work. SO i used wavepad to save it as a MP3 which worked well But when I use VirtualDub mod to put the MP3 and AVI togather there is a audio lag. As far as I can tell this is because the AAC is Variable Bit Rate and the MP3 isnt? I have no idea how to fix this. Can anyone please help me out? Thanks :flamethrower:
Use this converter http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html It's not the most polished program but it works well and gives you lots of options. Or, just use VLC.
Virtual Dub is pretty poor with MP3 audio. I used to get out of sync problems all the time. I stick with PCM until the final edit thenthen convert the audio only. Yakumo
Learn how to use mencoder (mplayer "spinoff"), never have to worry about something like this again. (Unless maybe you want WMV encoding for some reason.)
A variable bitrate shouldn't affect the length or placement of the audio. That said, I'd echo what others have said about VirtualDub Mod - if you're having problems with it (and you wouldn't be the first) get a different program to remux.
The best converter I've used for videos is Kigo Video Converter, I'm sure that SUPER thing will work too, just never used it. What I really hate is when you're trying to find an audio/video converter and you just get a billion sites trying to scam you into buying one :banghead:
This is what I am thinking. Why do you need to convert the files to begin with? .MKV files are great! & VLC plays everything like butter.
Sorry about the delay in getting back here, had to work all day. I am in aware I can watch them on my PC and thats all good. But I have a 60" Projection Big Screen from 1998 that I use for old games and anime and stuff like that I am making them into nice DVDs with menus and music and cool stuff so I can keep them in my DVD collection. I was able to fix the problem finally. I used the official DivX converter to convert the mkv files into .divx files. VirtualDub mod can read divx files so I just open them now and save as a AVI file and BAM! perfectly done Thanks for all the help guys!
I don't know about that. As long as you remove outdated codecs you should never have a problem. Both my laptop and desktop have the latest k-lite packs and have no issues playing anything (with mediaplayer classic) or encoding anything in any format. Just like anything in windows, make sure to remove old unused crap before installing new versions
The k-lite codec pack was only ever stable if you used it to install individual codecs as required (based on the 4CC), not the whole lot. It might work for you, but it's a problem waiting to happen (caveat here being that there are a near infinite number of releases and versions of k-lite, most of them problematic, but some of which apparently have a much more limited/sensible approach to codec inclusion; nobody really needs Angel Potion V1 from a decade ago). I've heard CCCP is better. Personally I'd rather use something that forgoes Windows' wrecked codec implementation altogether in favour of its own solution. The most obvious being VLC. On reflection I should admit that it's been a while since codecs etc really mattered for what I was doing, so I guess whoever maintains modern k-lite releases could've got their act together.
I have used Klites codec packs for years, even since it was an offspring of Kazaa lite (yes I have mentioned it before, but it still holds water) K-lite started out as kazaa Lite Codec pack, and has ONLY gotten better with every release, and the name change has not done it worse. I use k-lite, when VLC acts up like a little bitch. But I also use their quicktime alternative, that has changed its name over the years, and with k-lite mega codec pack you get real alternative too. Instead of an addware infected piece of shit, that the "real player" is. I have used CCCP too, and some old giant (big) codec pack, but I have always gone back to K-lite, cause it is stable, and does not fuck around, if you read the instructions.
