Sound Compression?

Hito · April 1st, 2003, 08:32 PM

Does anyone know a method for compressing sound with somthing like MP3 encoding?
Divx works great for compressing video but it dosent do any good when you have hundreds of megs of audio still.

April 2nd, 2003, 11:45 AM

I have noticed standard format for avi's IS divx with mp3 compression.

When I make a little video in 3dmax, I often end up compressing the video and audio smaller using virtualdub (freeware).

Hito · April 2nd, 2003, 12:11 PM

Yeah when i download stuff it is great with compressed audio.
But when i run stuff out from permier i can never figure out sound compression.

I will find and try Virtual Dub tho.

April 4th, 2003, 04:24 AM

wow cool to see this fourm up... I use divx and quicktime for compressing video...Well video for the web...I like quicktime because it can be use on both a mac and Pc. I will look for the name of the encorder I use for quicktime...I't come with quicktime.I don't use permier that much...I like vegas video..

April 4th, 2003, 04:59 PM

The name of the Software encorder for wuicktime is Sorenson Video There is another one with the same name but it has a 3 after it. You can do long quicktime videos at a very small size. Thats if I doing it for the web...but I'f I'm making a dvd I use mpeg2.

April 5th, 2003, 02:11 AM

Hito- When you get Virtualdub, you can reencode just the audio track which is extremely fast. Go to video and select "direct stream copy". And Then select audio>>>full processing and select your audio compression.

Hit "save as avi" and watch virtualdub go at mach speed. Its the fastest video processor I've ever seen!!

btw- as far as i know Apple still hasn't gotten rid of a compatibility error with mp3 as an audio codec. And for some reason they aren't in any hurry to fix it. You can play normal mp3s songs I believe, but not an video with mp3.

(And you thought only Microsoft did this kind of stuff :/: )

Hito · April 7th, 2003, 12:47 AM

I've tried what you said thomas but it dosent seem to be making a diffrence.
the file size dosent change.

April 7th, 2003, 01:52 PM

when you convert a movie in virtualdub it gives a readout as it runs of the size of the audio and video data. The audio data should be noticably smaller. If it isn't, then you didn't select the format correctly. (I think)

you need to go to Audio>>compression then select MPEG Layer-3 and select one of the choices on the right.

Hito · April 7th, 2003, 03:25 PM

Yeah
i tried that and even windows media compression.