Editing audio from a VCD

[ShreemadBhagavatam]

Thanks Coz. What's the best way I can convert this orignal VCDs to a better format such that I can improve the audio quality?

[kozikowski]

http://www.videohelp.com/
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections ... g-svcd-vcd

This forum used to be called "VCDHelp.com." They may be able to help you.

People in the Audacity forum tend to be heavy on audio and maybe a side of video...sometimes. I would be delighted to help you if you were on a Mac.

Koz

[Gale Andrews]

Thanks Coz. What's the best way I can convert this orignal VCDs to a better format such that I can improve the audio quality?

I'm not sure converting the .dat file is going to help much. Any conversion to another format will incur some quality losses unless you encode to a lossless video format like HUFFYUV. That will make the file size huge. Converting only the audio to WAV will also increase the file size considerably. So you may want to accept re-encoding the MP3 just once in Audacity, and keeping the smaller file size.

Synchronisation should not be a problem if you make all the edits you want to do to the length of the video in the video editor before you extract the audio from it for editing in Audacity. Then you just have to replace the audio in the video file with that you edited in Audacity. MPEGTools in TmpegEnc should let you do that by multiplexing the new MP3 audio stream with the old MPEG-1 video stream without re-encoding as a new video. If you want to replace the MP3 with WAV, you would I think have to re-encode the video. Re-encoding will reduce the video quality if you want to keep the same file size.



Gale