asynch question

[johnt]

Hi,

I have ripped a two-hour movie from DVD as three separate AVI files (DivX5, MPEG-3 audio; three files because of low hard disk space!)). Individually, audio and video synch perfectly in the three files.

Jowever, when I join any two of the files together in either VirtualDub or NanDub (Append AVI), the latter part of the new files has a synch problem.

My question is, is there a way of joining these files without getting this problem, or will I have to join the files, then manually resynch them, as described in the guides on synching problems?

Thanks for your help.

[Swede]

Do you still have the original ac3? Then convert this to just one .mp3, append the video-segments in Nandub and apply this .mp3.

[johnt]

Thanks for your reply. Should I extract an ac3 file from each of the avi files, join the three ac3 files and convert to an mp3, then apply that, or would I have a better chance of success if I extracted the single ac3 file from the DVD, converted that to mp3and then added it to the combined avi files?

[aleksander]

You'd better extract one file from DVD and convert it to mp3 and then join with the appended video segments.
That should work like charm!

take care

[johnt]

Thanks, I was just looking for an appropriate tool for that; would BeStrip be suitable? As I can't fit all of the VOB files on my hard drive, it would have to be something that would work directly from the DVD.

[aleksander]

Hmmm. Never tried BeStrip - but it should work flawlessly. You can also use BeSweet since it has a function of direct ac3 (from DVD) to mp3 encoding. And you can always try SmartRipper and StreamProcessing and then BeSweet or HeadAc3he.

take care

[DSPguru]

yes, BeStrip is probably the best solution.
usage is easy :
- pick the vob/ifo files on "1 Input" form
- check demux on "3 output" form, check "mp3 output" and set output filename. (i would also suggest to enable the logfile option)
- "3 output" form - check "substreams" and select the desired one, probably, 0x80.

hit the run button !

BeStrip is a special edition of vStrip_gui that uses BeSweet.dll.
for more info on vStrip, read here :
http://doom9.org/vstrip.htm

@alex
may i suggest that you give BeStrip a try.. :) ?

[aleksander]

@Dg
Hmmmm...To be honest I've tried to download it yesterday, but the link on your web page is not working - I get an error of: Invalid thread specified
I guess I will have to use coffercufs' one step solution on how to use the search button to find it :D

take care

p.s.
Yeahhh..I have found it...Will try it later, when I'm back at home...

[DSPguru]

fixed now.
thank you :) !