Category Archives: Tutorials
Video and audio sync problems: a common cause
While trying to convert a TS to avi I’ve come across the problem that my end file is ‘out of sync’, meaning: for some reason my audio file was shorter than my video file. I used to convert the AAC … Continue reading
Windows 7 x64: virtualdub, frameserving and codecs
Since I got myself a new notebook, I encountered a lot of the problems people were complaining about in this post. So here’s my tutorial post on how to get your machine ready to convert with virtualdub, VFapi and x264/lame. … Continue reading
PID Delay
If you use dgmpgdec to strip aac audio from files you might have noticed it places a string in the filename called PID delay. Generally speaking, if that’s under 1 second you’re alright. If it goes over that, you’ll notice … Continue reading
Converting TS (AAC audio)
What are TS Files? TS files are basically HD video files (MPEG-2). It’s possible to convert them using HDTV2MPEG for further processing but dgMpegdec is able to open TS files directly. Required programs: dgMpegdec (successor of DVD2AVI) VirtualDub VFApi Winamp … Continue reading
The great “Countdown” re-encode
If you want to download the file, the links can be fetched from my personal blog here. Every year I re-encode Johnny’s Countdown 2008-2009 using HDTV footage to create a High Quality AVI. This entry will show you the process … Continue reading
How to convert HD video and MP4a audio
NOTICE: This tutorial was made by using VideoLan 0.x. Where to find the transcode / stream options in VideoLan has changed, the principle has remained the same. I personally can’t get the transcode options to work for me anymore with … Continue reading