amontalenti
04-17-2004, 07:02 PM
I just wanted to mention I bought VideoReDo per the reccomendation of someone at Snapstream BeyondTV's forums, and I couldn't believe how good it is.
This is the first program to single-handedly and quickly crush my audio sync problems with my ATI AIW 8500.
Basically, I've been recording shows for awhile with BeyondTV, but some recent combination of new drivers or new BeyondTV or maybe new video codecs resulted in my ATI AIW dropping a small % of frames during recording, despite the fact that my system is by no means strained (CPU usage levels at 20-30% during record-time).
So the last 16 shows I recorded all have this progressive audio sync problem. And since I've been weilding these "professional" tools for awhile (TMPGEnc, VirtualDub, etc.), I figured out a solution. Basically, I had to decode the MPG into VirtualDub, use VirtualDub's Framerate adjustment feature (make it so audio and video durations match), frameserve that back into TMPGEnc and have TMPGEnc make my MPEG-2 file.
I had to venture off into "uncharted waters" by running multiple instances of VirtualDubMod with multiple frameservers and multiple signpost files, and have TMPGEnc read in each signpost file one-at-a-time in Batch mode.
Each reencode process took 1.5 hours.
Then I download VideoReDo. Remuxed one of my files. And in 5 minutes, the problems were gone.
I was astonished. I was equally astonished by how well-designed VideoReDo is for editing commercials. Up to that point I was using the built-in editor in TMPGEnc DVD Author. But VideoReDo makes it SO much faster. Takes me about 45 seconds per file to get rid of commercials, and then 2-5 minutes to remux and get my sync-problem-free, perfect MPEG file, ready to burn.
What this also means is that now I get to use DVD Workshop 2, which, IMO, has a much better menu design system than TMPGEnc DVD Author. I had been unable to use DVD Workshop because I had no quick way to edit out commercials (Workshop's built-in editor sucks badly), until now.
Just wanted to say thanks to Dan and everyone who works on it. I'm proud to pay for your software. Being a Linux user in general (who only boots up Windows to do this PVR shit), I tend to like freeware better. But in the world of confusion that is TV recording software, VideoReDo is such a sane step forward that its author deserves a reward.
I can't wait to see what you come up with next.
This is the first program to single-handedly and quickly crush my audio sync problems with my ATI AIW 8500.
Basically, I've been recording shows for awhile with BeyondTV, but some recent combination of new drivers or new BeyondTV or maybe new video codecs resulted in my ATI AIW dropping a small % of frames during recording, despite the fact that my system is by no means strained (CPU usage levels at 20-30% during record-time).
So the last 16 shows I recorded all have this progressive audio sync problem. And since I've been weilding these "professional" tools for awhile (TMPGEnc, VirtualDub, etc.), I figured out a solution. Basically, I had to decode the MPG into VirtualDub, use VirtualDub's Framerate adjustment feature (make it so audio and video durations match), frameserve that back into TMPGEnc and have TMPGEnc make my MPEG-2 file.
I had to venture off into "uncharted waters" by running multiple instances of VirtualDubMod with multiple frameservers and multiple signpost files, and have TMPGEnc read in each signpost file one-at-a-time in Batch mode.
Each reencode process took 1.5 hours.
Then I download VideoReDo. Remuxed one of my files. And in 5 minutes, the problems were gone.
I was astonished. I was equally astonished by how well-designed VideoReDo is for editing commercials. Up to that point I was using the built-in editor in TMPGEnc DVD Author. But VideoReDo makes it SO much faster. Takes me about 45 seconds per file to get rid of commercials, and then 2-5 minutes to remux and get my sync-problem-free, perfect MPEG file, ready to burn.
What this also means is that now I get to use DVD Workshop 2, which, IMO, has a much better menu design system than TMPGEnc DVD Author. I had been unable to use DVD Workshop because I had no quick way to edit out commercials (Workshop's built-in editor sucks badly), until now.
Just wanted to say thanks to Dan and everyone who works on it. I'm proud to pay for your software. Being a Linux user in general (who only boots up Windows to do this PVR shit), I tend to like freeware better. But in the world of confusion that is TV recording software, VideoReDo is such a sane step forward that its author deserves a reward.
I can't wait to see what you come up with next.