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Does Podner Support MPEG Muxed Audio?

April 26, 2017audio MPEG muxed podner support

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Does Podner Support MPEG Muxed Audio?

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Yes. MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 are not fully supported by QuickTime, which can only export the video from source data in these formats. This presented a challenge to Podner, which is based on QuickTime. We’re pleased to say that by extracting the audio independently of QuickTime Podner does export both video and audio from most MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 sources. Audio and video synchronization for these files, however, is hit or miss. During our research we experienced successful audio and video synchronization in over 80% of our test files. The remaining tests resulted in synchronization issues, unpredictably ranging from slight to very noticeable. We repeated our tests with several leading video conversion tools and their results ranged from somewhat less successful to slightly more successful than our own success rate. Essentially this means that an MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 file that you plan to convert may export with excellent audio and video synchronization, but there is really no guarantee. Synchroniza