Note about NSV ZIPs

[Matt Wilson]

You can safely put more than one zipped NSV in a folder, as long as the encoding settings are exactly the same, which shouldn't be a problem if you've used the same profile to convert all of your videos.

The only problems I've noticed is that there is the possibility, at the end of a video, for the audio from the next video to start at least a second or two early. It's, of course, only prevalent in video files whose audio cuts out before the end. Like Digital Archive Project's encodes of Freakazoid (just providing an example, work with me here), which had, I think, 4 seconds of DAP credits at the end, with no audio. When running this episode (ON A PRIVATE STREAM), the audio from the next video (a bumper for the station) started playing over those DAP credits.

Just something to watch out for. I guess a solution to that problem is to open Virtualdub, save the WAV file of the AVI, and then insert silence (or something) at the end so that it fits the length of the video. Then save the AVI with that WAV audio (if you don't use full processing mode on the video, this process shouldn't take long).

[yoman]

After encoding the .nsv file play only the sound of the video..

The video is coded woth divx.
Anyone can help ?

[Inedible Bulk]

So you're telling me that you take winzip (or winrar) and put the files into a .zip archive, and if there's more than one of the same bitrate, you can put them all in one zip, and nsvscsrc (or whatever you're using to stream this with) can understand the zip file?

Because I have no idea what you mean by "NSV ZIPs" otherwise, unless of course you mean the nsv wrapper around the video, then it's an nsv wrapper, in no way does a wrapper compress the video itself, the codec for the video does that.



I say this whole "Zip" thing because I found out you can play mp3's in a rar file by playing the rarfile, and it works fine in winamp. Sometimes.

[ken52787]

It only works if the compression settings are set to "None" or "Store" for obvious reasons.

[Marsman2k]

I believe the NSV ZIP's he refers to is the process of adding .nsv files to a zip archive with no compression. After the files are added, changing the extention from .zip to .nsv will result in a playable file where the .nsv files will play in the order they were added to the zip archive.
I too have noticed sound sync problems in these type of files - especially if you seek forward across the boundries of the files. Not sure what the best solution for this problem is.

[slavas]

in such case binary join of nsv files with stripped headers (NSVf thing) would be better