Converting a lot of video - A/V sync

[mrcool]

I have a bunch of video I want to convert/compress. The original files are .WTV (Windows 7 Media Center video). It's recorded TV. I use Microsoft's WTVConverter to convert the WTV to DVR-MS since most programs don't support WTV yet. No problems there. However, I want to compress the DVR-MS and I'm running into problems. I used ATI AVIVO to convert a few files to Divx and MediaCoder to convert to XviD, 800KBs video and 128kb audio, default container. The problem I am having is the audio/video is horridly out of sync. What gives? Any ideas? I pretty much don't care what format/container I use, I just want it to be fast. The 800kbs XviD quality was good enough, compressing ~4GB file to ~400MB. Should I use a different format, different container, different program, etc? As I noted, I do have a lot of files to convert, so a batch/queue/convert folder option for the program would be nice. I'll poke around with it some more, but video isn't my thing so any input would be appreciated.

 

[crazyrockets]

If you download the windows live movie maker, you can use it to compress the video into wmv. I use it and it does a pretty good job of keeping the audio synced, but it freezes occasionally, so save you project before trying to convert it if you use the program.

 

[gothroach]

Personally, I use VirtualDub for most video converting. If you install the MPEG-2 plugin, it will be able to open the DVR-MS files and convert them to nearly any format that you have installed on your computer. I convert a lot of files to x264 or XVID using this program, and it has a number of tools that can fix issues like the desync'd audio you're experiencing. Both VirtualDub and its MPEG-2 plugin are free. VirtualDub is also batch scriptable.

 

[mrcool]

I ended up going with HandbrakeCLI and using PHP to create a batch file. Working nicely.

 

[-Jv-]

I ended up going with HandbrakeCLI and using PHP to create a batch file. Working nicely.

Oh I love doing things when you don't have the programs for it Great solution