Messed up videos...

Littlefoot Fan · **on:** January 27, 2008, 12:38:49 AM

Ok this sucks and I really want to know if there's a way to fix this. I spent a whole day downloading some videos and when I played them, the audio is slightly pitched higher. It's definitely noticable, and I refuse to watch them like this, everything just sounds so dumb. Is there like any known way to fix this kind of problem, or is it just an error in the downloading process and the only way to repair it would be to download it again?

And this was my first time downloading this set of videos so I'm not sure if it is in fact a problem with the videos themselves, but I highly doubt it, as nobody has written a bad comment about it or anything.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #1 on:** January 27, 2008, 03:48:19 AM

The probability that it is an actual problem with the video file is unlikely. Have you checked your equalizer settings? A missing audio codec might also be responsible. Can you please give me all the technical information on the video clip? Just take a screenshot of the advanced properties menu of the video clip.

Petrie. · **Reply #2 on:** January 27, 2008, 10:19:07 AM

You probably have a PAL-encoded video. The specs of this video format has a 4% pitch speed-up. There's nothing that can be done about it. That's how Europeans watch their videos. ^^ Don't watch them then if it bothers you that much.

Littlefoot Fan · **Reply #3 on:** January 27, 2008, 01:37:44 PM

You mean this screen? I didn't see anything else that looked useful in the properties menu...

I don't really know how to check anything like equalizer settings...

Littlefoot Fan · **Reply #4 on:** January 27, 2008, 01:39:25 PM

Also Petrie, if that were the case, couldn't you just open up the video in an editing program and speed the audio up 4% or something?

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #5 on:** January 27, 2008, 01:50:16 PM

Try to recode the video in divx format. To do this, you'll need the divx codec, which can be downloaded by downloading the divx player. If you want, you can send me the file via driveway and I'll take a look at it. If all else fails, I'll slow down the clip a bit.

Littlefoot Fan · **Reply #6 on:** January 27, 2008, 01:56:26 PM

Well I'll ty recoding it, but eh, how do I do it?

I have DivX Player and Converter, do I use one of them?

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #7 on:** January 27, 2008, 01:58:24 PM

If the divx converter isn't a trial, then you can use that. Otherwise, you'll have to use another third party application.

Petrie. · **Reply #8 on:** January 27, 2008, 03:16:00 PM

You'd have to slow it down by 4% and it would sound "normal". There is no way to do this unless you physically edit the video, but doing that is going to cause sync issues because the video/audio are already synched perfectly in the PAL format. Like I said, there's nothing that can be done about that....nothing that's worth the hours worth of time you'd have to put into it.

Try to find an NTSC encoded video if the pitch increase really bothers you that much that you'd go through all this to fix it (which is a big fruitless waste of time).

Littlefoot Fan · **Reply #9 on:** January 27, 2008, 04:12:54 PM

Well I recoded it in divx and it's still pitched higher

I guess there isn't much I can do to fix it that won't take hours of hard work...

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #10 on:** January 27, 2008, 04:26:42 PM

In ulead multimedia studio pro, you can slow both the video AND the audio down by however many percent you want. If you give me the file, I'll do that for you, seeing how expensive that program is, I doubt you'll want to buy it to fix one clip.

I used this program to sync the video and audio in the Inuyasha episodes I downloaded. There was a 1.6 second gap in between speech and mouth movements.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #11 on:** January 27, 2008, 04:31:28 PM

I think many advanced video editting programs give you a lot of control over slowing/speeding video/audio, and it definitely comes in handy.

Petrie. · **Reply #12 on:** January 28, 2008, 09:29:46 AM

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In ulead multimedia studio pro, you can slow both the video AND the audio down by however many percent you want. If you give me the file, I'll do that for you, seeing how expensive that program is, I doubt you'll want to buy it to fix one clip.

*sigh*

Even the framerate of PAL is different from NTSC so your chances of getting it perfect are slim to none. Its not worth the time to try and get a PAL-encoded avi file down to NTSC specs because they're too different from each other and you'll likely create more trouble.

If its a free download you got LFFan be happy you were able to get it, and don't complain about the quality you get for what you paid for it.

Sorry if I sound sour, but I don't want you guys wasting two hours of your life you'll never get back trying to make this work. Quit while you're ahead.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #13 on:** January 28, 2008, 07:21:15 PM

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Even the framerate of PAL is different from NTSC so your chances of getting it perfect are slim to none.

From the technical information provided, I don't think the video is either PAL or NTSC format. I think it's MPEG-4 or MPEG-2.

Did you see the duration? If it were any of the DVD formats, it would undoubtedly be longer than 22 minutes.

Littlefoot Fan · **Reply #14 on:** January 29, 2008, 09:03:07 PM

Well I guess it doesn't matter. I'll just search for them some other place to download. I was just hoping there would be a simple easy way to fix it. I don't want to jump to unnecessary measures just to fix a few measly videos

Petrie. · **Reply #15 on:** January 30, 2008, 12:01:52 AM

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From the technical information provided, I don't think the video is either PAL or NTSC format. I think it's MPEG-4 or MPEG-2.

That's not quite what I was after. Mpeg 6000 or whatever wouldn't matter. I was more interested in knowing if it was a NTSC (Region 1) or PAL (Region 2, 4) dvd source to make the file.

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I don't want to jump to unnecessary measures just to fix a few measly videos

Best way to handle it.