Hypercube

[Darwinian]

Great stuff I'll give you a write up in the About box...

[Autumnlicious]

I have a good idea for this:

Current video players tend to do it "live", that is, if the audio is de-synced, you have to play the video and press certain keys in order to shift the audio to match the video. What I think would be better is if you allowed the user to select a portion of video (say, 10 seconds), and then have that play on a loop, with the user shifting the audio until it matched.

The benefit is that you could select someone saying a certain word, and then match up the audio for that word, rather than have to constantly match changing dialogue.

So, same old audio synch solution, except with a user interface that allows the user to lock a section of time down to sync in a repeatable fashion... Wow. That's sounds so intuitive, so user friendly?

WHY DOESN'T VLC DO THIS YET?!

Oh wait, I said user friendly. Should've known...

[Tiberius]

So, same old audio synch solution, except with a user interface that allows the user to lock a section of time down to sync in a repeatable fashion... Wow. That's sounds so intuitive, so user friendly?

WHY DOESN'T VLC DO THIS YET?!

Oh wait, I said user friendly. Should've known...

Yeah, I don't really think there are very many (easy) ways to improve the actual method of syncing audio. I like the fact that in VLC you just use two keys and can do it that way, but it's so bloody annoying when the video keeps on changing and you lose track of everything.

I end up just clicking back to a section and playing it again and again (albeit clicking the same position in the tracker each time). Hence, the idea for the simple loop. I honestly don't know why media players don't do this. I don't think my idea is unique, but I certainly haven't seen an implementation like it.

[Darwinian]

I have a good idea for this:

Current video players tend to do it "live", that is, if the audio is de-synced, you have to play the video and press certain keys in order to shift the audio to match the video. What I think would be better is if you allowed the user to select a portion of video (say, 10 seconds), and then have that play on a loop, with the user shifting the audio until it matched.

The benefit is that you could select someone saying a certain word, and then match up the audio for that word, rather than have to constantly match changing dialogue.

Just worked out a really clever way of doing just this. Might just call it 'Hayter Audio Sync'

[Tiberius]

I would be honoured, though as I said before, it probably isn't an original idea.

[everythingafter]

Just a little progress report for my media player project..
Phase one, design. So far..

Nice job so far. Wish I could do this. I was a computer science major for a few months before I realize that I sucked at it. lol

[Darwinian]

BTW: If anyone could point me towards a video file that is chronically out of sync with its audio that would be great

[Tiberius]

You can make them with ffmpeg ;-)

[Autumnlicious]

Nice job so far. Wish I could do this. I was a computer science major for a few months before I realize that I sucked at it. lol

I am not a CS major. I'm a physics major.

CS is not a requirement to do software development.

Much like being a doctor is not required to do bioinformatics analysis.

[Darwinian]

An interesting side effect from 'Hayter Audio Sync' is the ability to allow the user to watch previews of any file from the playlist editor while still watching the main video I really love programming!!!