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Offline InTheSand

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Re: mpeg audio editing
« on: August 24, 2008, 07:41:49 AM »
Hi,

Unless you can find a package that'll do this for you, you'll need to:
1. Demultiplex the audio and video
2. Load the audio into something like Audacity
3. Bleep out the bits required
4. Encode the audio back into MPEG format
5. Remultiplex the audio and video again

You could try mpgtx, though that doesn't appear to have been updated for a while.

For all-in-one solutions that may work, have a look at Kdenlive, Kino, LiVES and Cinelerra.

I must admit I usually "cheat" and drop back to Windoze for video-related work (mainly because I've paid for the editing software!), rather than doing it in Linux, but hopefully one of the above will be of use.

If I was in Windows doing this, I'd use TMPGEnc to demultiplex, then Audacity to bleep out, then TMPEGEnc to re-encode the audio, then TMPGEnc again to remultiplex.

Good luck!

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Re: mpeg audio editing
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2008, 11:50:00 AM »
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bloodline wrote:
Did I read that you have a MacMini in the house... Just use iMovie :)


Would iMovie do a full re-encode? Or would it be aware that only the audio part of the file had changed? May lose some video quality if a full encode takes place vs. the demux -> modify audio -> remux approach.

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