VHS conversion problems

[flei]

Hi,

I'm very new to videos, but trying to understand things. I have videocapture card in my Ubuntu 13.04 machine and now I succesfully record avi's to hd from VHS recorder. Problem nr 1: when I cut these avi's (or ts format tv shows) with avidemux it always loses sound sync. It's very annoying. I tried also OpenShot, which does everything ok but it takes a long time to convert the file (I dont know why it's converting because I tried to put same details to output that was in input).

Can't I just record my vhs tapes to computer in the same format (mpeg) that dvd disk eats? I succesfully converted (transcode encode what it is), a avi to dvd but a) it takes a long time b) sound wasn't correct because of avidemux.
Mencoder works fine, so should I just manually find the cut parts (from beginning and end) and put them to mencoder and let in convert mpeg ready to burn to dvd?

Any advice? I appreciate any help =) I'm stuck under that pile of vhs'es to get burned (to dvd).

-Kim

[hech54]

I succesfully record avi's to hd from VHS recorder.

What kind of "avi"?
AVI is merely a container that can have several different kinds of video.
I'm guessing by your AviDemux problems that you are using xvid/divx video in that AVI?

[flei]

Nice to get quick answer =)

This is the line I'm using, just got it from somewhere and tried it and it worked (somehow). But I got a file I was happy until now.

mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:norm=PAL:width=720:height=576utfmt=uyvy:device=/dev/video0:input=3:fps=25:buffersize=64:alsa:amode=1:f orcechan=2:audiorate=48000:adevice=plughw.Intel:fo rceaudio:immediatemode=0 -msglevel all=9 -ovc lavc -ffourcc DX50 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:turbo:vbitrate=1300:keyint=15 -vf pp=lb -oac mp3lame -endpos "00:03:00" -o filename.avi

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[manono]

mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:norm=PAL:width=720:height=576utfmt=uyvy:device=/dev/video0:input=3:fps=25:buffersize=64:alsa:amode=1:f orcechan=2:audiorate=48000:adevice=plughw.Intel:fo rceaudio:immediatemode=0 -msglevel all=9 -ovc lavc -ffourcc DX50 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:turbo:vbitrate=1300:keyint=15 -vf pp=lb -oac mp3lame -endpos "00:03:00" -o filename.avi

DivX with MP3 audio? A very bad idea if what you really want is to make a DVD.

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[jman98]

Are you using VBR MP3 audio? That will very likely cause audio sync problems. Change that to CBR MP3 if you can. I cannot help you with this as I do not use mencoder and I don't use Linux for video capturing. Your options are going to be VERY limited under Linux.

And it would indeed be better to not capture DivX with MP3 audio if you want to make a DVD out of it. Capturing using MPEG-2 video and AC3 audio would be the best option if you can do it.