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After a year of struggling with this program, I find myself avoiding it, when I really would like to use it. In theory, it is an outstanding video editor. Unfortunately, I frequently find that after editing a file that plays fine on either Windows Media Player or VLC (for example), when I edit the file with this, the resulting new file has totally lost audio synchronization.
As I understand it, some MPEG input files have anomalies in them which do not conform strictly to the MPEG specifications. But for some reason, players like VLC seem to be able to play those files in sync, but Avidemux can't edit them in sync. Lately, I've been running into similar problems with MP4 edits: Avidemux complains about some anomalies in the original MP4 file, and when I get done extracting commercials from the video stream, the saved file is hopelessly out of sync.
Since somebody at VLC knows how to overcome these synchronization anomalies, I wonder why Avidemux team doesn't just grab that code and add it in as an optional tool. I would say that providing some tools to clean up the audio would push my rating from a 5 to a 9. As it is, I'm reluctant to use the program because I can never be sure what I'm going to get out the other end, after the sometimes very lengthy conversion processes. |
