First this seemed to be the only logical forum to put my problem so if its not I apologise ...I have just got an avi file (700mb) but its got a Russian commentary over an English one....I thought it might be worth while looking at the audio track file in case the Russian could be removed ...So I used Virtual Dub(no good)then TMPGenc to save wav file ..imagine my surprise when it was 4.1GB.....Finally I used AVIcodec to find out what sort of file I was actually dealing with... well its DIVX v5 with a Mpeg Layer 3 audio.....So can anybody advise me on a program to use to save the audio from it.....Thanks HoneHeke NZ.
Thanks Jim for your prompt reply...I now have the wav from the divx5 video and realise I cannot do anything about the dubbing on it...So I loaded the video into TMPGEnc and set for video only mpg 1 / 320x240 / 25fps ...and intended to put the wav file on in one further step....
I now see that the complete Mpg1 video file looks like its going to be round 3 and a 1/2 GB when finished which indicates to me that something I am doing is wrong.
I would appreciate any comment.
Thanks HoneHeke
Load the .wav as the audio source.
Click on the Audio tab, and set it to 224kbps, mpeg 1, layer II audio.
BTW, why are you making a VCD?
What is the running time (length) of the movie (not filesize).
Jim..its a guitar video clip..for transcribing and I hate DivX cause they always are out of sync...plus I use Full Motion Video Viewer for playing as I can use the speed and loop features it has ..and it accepts mpg's better than anything ....The original DivX clip is 716mb/length 1 hour 3 minutes... and this is the first one I have had this type of problem with....I have got the audio in a wav file and its a comfortable size of 237mb ....I fully expected a 320 x 240 25fps video only encode on TMPGEnc would not explode out to over 3gb (which it was doing ) so I aborted.....I wonder now if I should try some other method to get the video ....Thanks Hone Heke
Jim.. Further to my message just sent ...I now believe the video clip is jamming in both Virtual Dub and TMPGEnc and that is why its being blown out to the huge size I am experiencing....At a point just after the beginning Its just dubbing the same frame over and over...I have always used VDub and TMPGEnc in my video work so I have no experience of any other program...HoneHeke.
It sounds like there's a problem with the video stream...an error causing the same frame to be looped.
Try encoding to SVCD mpeg-2 instead, then adjust bitrate so it fits on one disk. Mpeg-1 is too limiting, if you actually want it to play in a standalone, you'll have to set bitrate to 1150kbps, and it won't fit on one disk (max is 80 minutes per disk at mpeg-1/VCD).
