I thought I had this whole resizing thing down with AVIdemux but I'm wondering if I've come up against file that is just too small to resize.
I opened up AVIdemux, imported the video file, which I should add is only 288 x 224! The quality of it's not so great either. I set Video to MPEG-4 ASP Xvid and left the Audio at Copy. I picked my resize setting, which I do admit was rather large, at 640 x 360, saved it and added .avi to the extension.
It was only an hour long video anyway, so it only took about 5 minutes to resize. When it was through I opened up the file in WMP and it didn't look too bad, but there was no sound, and the sound was there in the file before it was edited.
I ran it in GSpot and it said the audio codec was MPEG MP1/MP2, so I set everything up again and and set the Audio to MP2 (TwoLAME), but it had no efect, still no sound.
So my question is: If a file is very small like mine was, does something like audio get messed up in the transformation process? OR did I miss a step?
You almost certainly did something wrong.
The re-encode only took 5 minutes? What CPU do you have?
In general, the re-encoded, resized avi is likely to be a little fuzzy.
It always happens when you enlarge the image. No rules against it,
you can pretty much do what you like (if you know what you're doing).
I'm not an Avidemux expert, perhaps attar or some others will chip in.
