Adding music to an mpg1 video clip possible ?

[susie]

HI all,
I recently borrowed a DivX movie from a friend and found out that the audio is screwed up. I can convert the DivX file with TMPGenc2.55 to VCD but the result video clip is without any audio. So I am wondering if I can add music(mp3 or wave) to the video clip and then burn them together as VCD ?

Thanks

[bugster]

As always there are several ways of doing this. First I would suggest loading the .avi file into virtualdub. Select Audio->No Audio, Video->Direct Stream copy then File_Save Avi and save out a new copy of the avi with all traces of audio removed.

Next select the audio file you want, try and match the length as closley as you can. (I would also suggest converting it to uncompressed wav format for best possible tool compatibilty.) You can then encode your video to VCD with TmpGenc, supplying you wav file as the audio input.

Hope this helps

[susie]

>As always there are several ways of doing this. First I >would suggest loading the .avi file into virtualdub. Select Audio->No >Audio, Video->Direct Stream copy then File_Save Avi and save out a >new copy of the avi with all traces of audio removed.

How long would Virtualdub take to create a new copy of the AVI file ?
The avi (movie)file is about 603 megs

>Next select the audio file you want, try and match the length as closley >as you can. (I would also suggest converting it to uncompressed wav >format for best possible tool compatibilty.) You can then encode your >video to VCD with TmpGenc, supplying you wav file as the audio input.

The movie is more than an hour in length....I don't think I have a audio file of that length.


>Hope this helps

[susie]

bugster, I just fixed the audio problem with VirtualDub 1.4

Thanks a lot for helping me out.

By the way, there was no quality loss during the fixing process. I guess Virtualdub just left the video portion alone and fixed the audio problem and hence no quality loss ?

[bugster]

It looks like you are saving it as an uncompressed avi. To save it with the existing compression, from the video menu make sure direct stream copy is selected. It should only take a few minutes to save a new copy of the file minus audio. If for some reason this doesnt seem to work, from the video menu select compression and select a codec to compress with, preferably the same divx codec as used by the original avi. Be warned tho this may cause a certain loss of quality.