Trying to use Virtualdub filters, getting choppy audio......

[DGinnetty]

I am brand new at this, so I may be missing something simple but,

I captured an old VHS tape (recorded off TV in 1975, if you can believe it)
using ATI MMC 8.5 on my ATI AIW 9800 Pro card. I captured to avi using the Huffyuv 2.2.0 codec.

I have a AMD XP 2000+ chip, 512Mb of ram, and a Asus A7V333 motherboard. My playback deck is a JVC Hr-S9800-->Datavideo TBC-1000-->ATI AIW 9800 Pro. Connections are made with high quality cables (Monster brand).

It captured the 90 minute show fine, with no dropped frames.

I want to run it through Virtualdub, applying some filters to help clean it up some before burning it to DVD.

After setting all the filters, I tried to run it, but the audio was choppy.

When I play the avi file through Windows media, and the ATI file player, it plays just fine.

Is there a way to run my avi file (47 Gigs) through virtualdub without having this choppy audio? I have heard great things about the filters, and really want to "restore" this footage before burning to DVD.

I searched the forums for this problem, but the matches didn't address my particular issue.

Should I have captured the VHS tape with the filters already in place using Virtualdub?

I was kinda hoping that I could "clean up" old VHS tapes with Virtualdub.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for reading

Dan Ginnetty
capturing newbie

[nelson133]

You may need to use virtualdub to remove the audio track and convert it into a wave file. Then, when encoding, you use your original video file and use the wave file for the audio. The information on how to do this is in the guides. Nyah Levi

[teegee420]

What I would do is apply the filters and re-encode with 'no audio" selected. You're going to have to decompress the original captured avi to PCM wav anyway. At least you should. Use the soundless cleaned up avi and the decompressed wav file as yoiur video and audio sources respectively for converting to mpeg-2. Bear in mind that this method won't work if you are doing any kind of cutting in Virtualdub.