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Wallace · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 3:50 am Post subject: Video sound help

I've just converted a flv youtube video file to avi.

The sound is not matching, seems it is lagging a bit behind.

Would the problem be the bit rate for the sound is too slow??

Thanks for any help
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cam-steaman · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 8:25 am Post subject:

sorry dont know... but how did you get a YouTube file anyway?

Andy · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 8:40 am Post subject:

johnreid · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 10:54 am Post subject:

Real Player also lets you download YouTubes, lets be honest, the audio is cr@p on You Tubes as a rule, although they are now experimenting with a higher grade stereo sound, when the audio gets good, it will cost to download them I bet.
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cam-steaman · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:02 am Post subject:

how do you use real player to get videos from You Tube? i dont quite get it...

johnreid · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:04 am Post subject:

The newer version, including the free version have that built in, when I watch a YouTube a box appears above it saying Download Video all i do is click that and ity saves the video to my hard drive.
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cam-steaman · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:08 am Post subject:

where can i download it from?

johnreid · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:22 am Post subject:

www.real.com/
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Wallace · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:11 am Post subject:

Thanks for the help.

Will give vdownloader a go.

I was using Keepvid.com to download them, then SuperX to convert them to any format
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Mister Occlusion · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 3:11 pm Post subject:

oh man... I don't like realplayer (or quicktime for that matter).

If you don't want the player but need support for the format, go to the multimedia section of majorgeeks.com and look for (or just google it) "real alternative" and "quicktime alternative"

The standard or full version of the K-lite Codec Pack will also give you just about everything you need.

I used to use some website or other for downloading youtube videos, but when I was looking for a better download manager in general I found a free one called Orbit Downloader (at majorgeeks). It has a feature called Grabit, or sommmat, which is a window that stays open on your desktop while you browse. Just load a youtube page, watch the file name appear in grabit, and click download.

There is also a firefox extension that I ran across while I was trying some version of linux or other in the past few weeks, but I've forgotten the name of it. Tried it once and it seemed to work okay.
If I haven't blown away that install already (I install linux a lot and use it little, it seems) I'll see if I can find it.

As for the audio/video being out of sync... Dunno. Is it in sync in the original video?
I don't bother re-encoding flvs any more, since Zoomplayer supports the format natively (much better than those purpose-built flv players out there, which all seem to have one thing in common: being rubbish).

The one or two freeware converters I tried were poor performers and tossed many an error.
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johnreid · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject:

I admit that I used to HATE Real player, but this latest version seems to work quite well.
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GUTMACH · Newbie Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 41 Location: Arizona

Just FYI, I use tooble.app for pipping/converting YouTube video to run on my iPod Touch. I have a iMac G5.

Occulusion, it is funny you should mentioned Linux. I have a stack of the PowerPC version downloaded and burned, but run into trouble installing them due to the LCD monitor that the iMac uses. Also I wanted to install Linux on my external firewired hard drive and not the computer's.

The next version of Linux is sitting right in front me, waiting for install. It is Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop PowerPC.

Wayde