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Gotta ask this on behalf of a frustrated co-worker. He is currently using an application called DVD Santa to convert a number of VHS tapes to .wmv files. He's satisfied with the video quality but cannot seem to sync the audio and video. Video has never been my strongest suit so I haven't been able to assist him much. Your in put as always would greatly appreciated!

In a sentence, either redo the VHS -> computer, or split the WMV file so you have an audio and video file, and line them up and save the resulting file..

QUOTE(WAI @ Oct 11 2006, 07:24 PM) In a sentence, either redo the VHS -> computer, or split the WMV file so you have an audio and video file, and line them up and save the resulting file..

that is a good suggestion, processing video is a pretty cpu intensive task and is prone to hiccups and stutters.

The problems your friend is having is one of the biggest drawbacks to the "one click" solutions; you sacrifice flexibility for convenience and ease of use. If the standard, cookie-cutter settings the developers hard-coded do not fit your needs, you are SOL and now have a useless piece of $30 software you now realize sucks ass.

Microsoft has a wmv stream editor/encoder that is freely available from their site. This tool lets you specify the Audio/Video offset before you start encoding to prevent the Kung-Fu movie effect in your final productions. I also highly recommend your friend spend a saturday afternoon reading everything he can at www.doom9.org. This is the #1 location for all topics pertaining to A/V ripping/encoding/muxing/burning.

Good Luck

Fuck man, can I get a word in..? LoL...

Yeah NoS...what they said, lol...I do believe that the issue he is experiencing is more along the lines of not having a quite beasty enough computer, or as the dynamic duo mentioned, just better suited doing it seperately...

When I did my VHS rips, the only software that I used was my TV tuner card, which would simply record in format from input...Never had any issues...

I was using an ATI All In Wonder 9700, tho I'm sure you could find a cheaper variation to do it with, and is a sound investment if he wants to do a few more of these...

if you have troubles with a/v synch, export the audio to .wav then open the video only and replace the audio track with the wav file and choose only to process the audio (with the codec you want like mp3 or ac3) and the video in direct stream copy
the result is a video with the audio at its same rate ergo synchonized. (virtualdub is a perfect software to do this)

Not quite, Fapper, not quite..
But close.. lol

At least your suggestions aren't completely useless like Ruff's.. heh

Thanks for all the fine advice!

These guys are the best...

Has someone ever posted a problem that we didn't fix..? We're like the tech JLA, heh...