Posted by William A. T. Clark on 05/08/06 19:42

In article <e3g81g$fql$1@e250.ripco.com>,
Bruce Esquibel <bje@e4500.ripco.com> wrote:

> 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

I finally got this solved. I converted the .avi to .mp4 in MPEG
Streamclip, and then put it in iMovie. There I will edit it, and put the
final version into iDVD and onto CD.

Probably not the most elegant solution, but at least one that appears to
work!

William Clark

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