VBR audio stream detected... join avi...

[Salamence]

Hi there!

Im a newbie and need some serius help here

Well, lets see... this is what I want to do:

I have a series of AVI episodes of an ANIME/MANGA series, and I want to open these movies one by one in VirtualDub and then cut the theme beginning and end of each episode. When the themes are gone, I want to join all of these episodes into one!

I know how to do this - Video>Direct Stream Copy and then, simply open the episodes, "set selection start" and "set selection end", and then "save as avi". I will do this with all the episodes.

Here is when I encounter the first problem... When I open some of the movies I get a prompt saying "VBR audio stream detected". When I open it with the VirtualDub including MP3 freeze it works fine. Then I do the same as above, I select the part that I want from the episode and then save it as avi.

Now is the biggest problem. When I try to join the edited episodes I cant, becose I get a prompt saying "Cannot append segment... The audio streams have different sampling rates (16000.00000 vs 15680.00000).

How can I make this work?! Please help me, and please describe it so that it is easy to understand (im a newbie ).

[mats.hogberg]

Set audio to full processing, no compression (LPCM) before saving the AVIs. That will give you big AVIs, but they'll all have regular WAV audio. Then you can join them, set audio compression to whatever you like (mp3?) and save out the AVI with all episodes.

/Mats

[Salamence]

It didnt work... The sound got really bad, I dont know why

[mats.hogberg]

What MP3 bit rate did you try? Or do the AVIs with WAV audio sound bad?

/Mats

[Salamence]

Det var WAV ljudet som blev brusigt när jag hade sparat i AVI med audio>full processing mode. Det brusade till i början av filmen och sedan hördes inget ljud alls i resten av filmen (prövade två gånger dessutom).

[bugster]

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[Salamence]

You need to re-encode the VBR audio to CBR Mp3 and re-mux with the video part of the avi. You will need to do this before cutting in order to ensure you maintain Audio/Video sync.
/Moderator bugster

Would you mind explaning this "step-by-step"... Would be appreciated.

[mats.hogberg]

OK, demux audio: Audio -> Direct Stream copy, File -> Save WAV.
Rename ??? .wav to ???.mp3 (if the audio is in mp3 format in the original AVI)
Decode to WAV with GoldWave, or CDEx or... Make sure the wav sounds fine.
Load AVI back in. Select Audio -> WAV audio and your new wav.
Save out as AVI with new audio (File -> Save AVI)

/Mats

[Capmaster]

Det var WAV ljudet som blev brusigt när jag hade sparat i AVI med audio>full processing mode. Det brusade till i början av filmen och sedan hördes inget ljud alls i resten av filmen (prövade två gånger dessutom).

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