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Audio sync when ripping DVDs
shmokes:
Is there anything worse than finishing ripping a couple of DVDs only to test them and find that the audio doesn't match the video?
No. There is not. :timebomb:
Samstag:
There are supposedly tools out there that will resynch the audio (as long as it's a constant offset) but I've never done it so I couldn't give you any names. It should be a pretty quick process.
shmokes:
It wouldn't be quite so bad if my computer wasn't three years old, but it takes a few hours to rip and encode a DVD into Divx. From what I understand, that can be done in less than ten minutes on new machines.
Samstag:
That was my main motivation for going for a quad-core processor this time around. It's not a 10-minute job, but video encoding is greatly improved on a multi-processor setup.
shmokes:
I seem to remember a Maximum PC Dream Machine article from a couple years ago (before quad-core processors even existed) and it seems like they used a two or four processor motherboard, each one filled with a dual-core processor, so they had either four or eight cores, and they used No. 1 DVD Ripper to rip and encode a feature-length DVD into a Divx file in something like 11 minutes. It was long enough ago that I figured that off-the-shelf mainstream consumer PCs would be putting in similar numbers by now.
At any rate, my single-core 3.6 Ghz P4 can still run most things pretty well, but I'll be damned if video encoding isn't the slowest thing on earth. So when the files end up with video and audio that don't sync up, it's just so irritating. When I get a little time I'll try and track down some syncing software. That would be pretty great if I could quickly get everything synced up rather than having to start the whole encoding process over again and hope that it gets it right this time.
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