Posted by Bruce Esquibel on 05/05/06 19:11

William A. T. Clark <clark.31@nospamosu.edu> wrote:

: Yes, I tried Toast 7, but it spent a long time grinding through the
: conversion (it was quite a large file), but at the final stage it just
: spat it out and gave an error message.

Not sure if there is much to do with time problems, there is no magic bullet
to transcoding.

Have you looked at ffmpegx yet? (http://homepage.mac.com/major4/).

It's not my first tool in the arsenal but it has worked on avi's that toast
and others (well .mpg's via vcdgear) didn't help with.

Keep in mind there are alot of bad .avi's out there, everyone has their own
codec and settings they think are right and doesn't mean much for
compatability. Throw in pal format and 5.1 audio and it really gets messy.

Sometimes it's a really painful process, I've taken avi's and converted them
to DV format (at a cost of like 10GB per hour of video) then ran that back
through divx5 or whatever to get what I wanted. Generally is the only way to
do it especially with ones that transcode but like audio sync problems show
up.

You sure the avi is ok to being with?

-bruce
bje@ripco.com

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