Adding WAV Source Audio And Making Changes to AVI

[Colorfinger]

I captured the video from VHS as an .AVI using VirtualDub and using the HuffYUV compressor.

What I need to do now is match up my alternate audio WAV (16bit 48kHz PCM WAV) and deinterlace the video. How do I save it on VirtualDub? If I save it again, should I save the AVI uncompressed? What should I do?

My overall goal is to convert it to mpeg2 using TMPGEnc but when I try doing that, it only lets me do an ES (Video+Audio) and saves it as a m2v and a seperate wav file when all I want is a joined mpeg file.

Any help is appreciated.

[guns1inger]

a) if your target is ultimately DVD, do not deinterlace. The quality is going to suffer if you do.

b) open the video file in virtualdubmod (because it's audio handling is easier to work with). Click on Streams -> Stream List. Click on Add and find your PCM wav file. Click OK. At this point I would open the frameserver and frameserve directly to tmpgenc. Tmpgenc can save program streams, so I suspect your problem at this point is user error. However if you cannot get a program stream out of tmpgenc, you can use muxman to put your audio and video back together.

[Colorfinger]

a) if your target is ultimately DVD, do not de-interlace. The quality is going to suffer if you do.

When I use de-interlace, it seems to get rid of the "liney-ness" of the video. I am concerned with the quality of the video however. Is there a way to remove the lines without reducing quality? When I de-interlace using the preset Virtual Dub Deinterlace filter it seems to remove that so I'm a little confused as to what to do!

b) open the video file in virtualdubmod (because it's audio handling is easier to work with). Click on Streams -> Stream List. Click on Add and find your PCM wav file. Click OK. At this point I would open the frameserver and frameserve directly to tmpgenc. Tmpgenc can save program streams, so I suspect your problem at this point is user error. However if you cannot get a program stream out of tmpgenc, you can use muxman to put your audio and video back together.

Excuse my lack of knowledge with VirtualDub/TMPGEnc, but what is frameserver, and how do I frameserve?

Also, how do I save program streams? Is the program stream, the audio and the video joined together? If so, that's what I want, and must not be doing it correctly!

Thanks again for all your help.