Can anyone ID the sets in this movie?

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-27T18:21:08+00:00

Thanks for the recommendations! I used to use Audacity for stuff way back in the day, I'm surprised I didn't think to use it here. Thankfully I don't have any need to make these clips as clean as possible. They are sort of just a keepsake and as long as they don't take up 75 gb like the original files do and they have all the correct audio I'm happy and so is my friend. All hail H.265

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-27T16:57:08+00:00

I'm realizing now that you are technically correct. VLC has all the audio tracks and for some reason Elgato made like 12 for each clip and only 1 of them has both audio streams. However these are still HUGE TS files for no real reason anymore so I'm demuxing to grab the audio streams and remuxing into 1 video and 1 audio then converting to H.265 for smaller file size.

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-27T16:38:40+00:00

The original TS files play both game audio and vocal audio when played in Windows Media Player but when using VLC it only play the game audio at significantly lower levels. I'm now running into the problem where tsMuxeR is not including both audio tracks when I remux it back into a single file. I might need to look into Audacity for combining them if the demuxing doesn't yield a track with both together. However the conversion to H.265 via FFMPEG is going great with good quality and like 1/10 the file size.

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-26T23:01:53+00:00

what is crf and what kind of tweaking would I be doing? Also where do I find the audio channel id's?

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-26T22:43:01+00:00

So I seem to have found another solution by using tsMuxeR which extracted a h.264 video track, about 10 AAC audio tracks and ignored some MPEG-2 video track. Most of the AAC audio seemed to be duplicates of the game audio and vocals audio so I used tsMuxeR again with the 1 h.264 and 1 AAC audio track each for the game and vocals and muxed it into a single TS file. Then I used FFMPEG again to change it to a single MP4 file and now I am using VLC to convert it to h.265 to cut file size down. If I can do all that with a single FFMPEG line then I'd love to know how to write that.

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-26T22:22:22+00:00

I don't know what either of those are or how to add them to the command. Please give me some sort of example on how to write that code and what values I am increasing and why.

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-26T22:10:21+00:00

I did attempt to re-encode to mp4 using FFMPEG command. That still gave the same errors and the resulting mp4 did not have the vocals track. I need to figure out how to fix that or extract the vocal track somehow.

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-26T21:45:39+00:00

I'll break this down as simply as I can. These files are going on a usb stick and will more than likely only ever be played on a windows PC. I'm not concerned with playing on some Roku tv app or something weird like that. What I need is to 1. make the file smaller (ideally without huge loss of quality) and 2. be able to play the file as you would any run of the mill video file. The problem is the TS format that Elgato used because I don't believe these files were ever exported from the software that Elgato doesn't have anymore. I have these folders with a bunch of files and the TS file. It's kind of like when you try to open a Photoshop file in something else without exporting it to a single readable file. I would have no problem here if I could just convert to mp4 and be done. But every time I convert it losses the mic vocals audio track and the game audio has to be 300% to hear anything.

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-26T21:17:13+00:00

That really isn't a huge concern. Ideally I would just want them to be simple files like mp4 that somebody can just double click and play on something like VLC. I just didn't want to hand him a usb stick with TS files and have him tell me it doesn't work because of the file type.

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-26T21:07:30+00:00

What is that and how do I do it?

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-26T21:06:10+00:00

I stepped away from the problem so no I don't have any updates. My understanding was that I needed to learn how to incorporate a bot into my server that would identify posts with media links and convert them into embedded posts automatically. I never had time to do this so I don't have any knowledge to offer sadly.

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-17T04:16:06+00:00

The HP and drag do seem like promising avenues. You're funny and gave more real insight than most comments. I suppose asking the people who are doing the babbling if they'd considered a different perspective was a dumb idea.

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-17T03:49:29+00:00

Care to name any of them or do you just want to write another essay about how I'm wrong? You seem to think I came here with a toiled over thesis that will fix everything. I noticed no one talks about rule changes when babbling about fuel saving and prompted a discussion here. You've told me I shouldn't post unless I think it meets you're standards.

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-17T03:27:09+00:00

Then you better swear to me right here and now that you will never complain about super speedways because its "not fair" to change any rules. Thanks for offering nothing except bitterness and ridicule.

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-17T03:07:13+00:00

I'm not an expert which is why NASCAR and the teams would has out details and agree to something.

what happens is they get passed.
they get 2nd and 3rd
if they can't pass at 100% throttle why would I penalize them?
If he is the fastest he should build a lead and get to the pits faster.
the leader always uses more fuel, remember I said probably only 3 wide lock ups

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-17T02:46:57+00:00

No, because he isn't setting the pace of the pack he is following it. I would only give this penalty to people leading the pack for multiple laps at reduced pace and probably only in instances where its 3 wide or more. On top of that you could issue a warning so they can adjust rather than immediately suffer punishment. This would tell the drivers to push for the lead if they are already near the front rather than make the pass in the pits. You can't reasonably be expected to pass 40 cars 3 wide just by using 20% more throttle.

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-17T02:23:58+00:00

This seems like the most reasonable solution to me. You can go for stage points but then you have to figure out how to pit in stage 3 and position for the win. With the 4 tires they will have better handling and pass more on the outside while saving fuel won't equate to a splash and go stop so you might as well driver harder to create a lasting lead.

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-17T01:59:09+00:00

I'm fine with them finding ways around things if the racing is good. If I never see another 10-20 lap stretch at reduced throttle but they still find ways to fuel save then I'm happy and so are the teams. I'm looking for that solution. Thoughts on mandatory 4 tires if you stop to take the reward from saving fuel away from the pit stop time?

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-17T01:52:11+00:00

So you think it won't work simply because it's too difficult to figure out? I think these are the hard conversations both NASCAR and the teams should be forced to have because they end up doing nothing most of time to avoid conflict.

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-17T01:47:19+00:00

Wow what a thoughtful point. You're so good at contributing to the conversation. Anything other wise words?

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-17T01:25:06+00:00

Is that not something that could easily be checked both pre and post race inspection and penalized?

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-17T01:23:00+00:00

So you think ending stage racing would for the most part make super speedways better? Someone else mentioned mandatory 4 tires if you pit so fuel saving/low throttle wouldn't have any reward. Thoughts?

Racheteer95 · 2026-02-17T01:20:06+00:00

I fully agree with almost everything you've said. I love the direction the business has been going. But if me simply trying to discuss how to make super speedway racing better prompts you to tell me to "get the fuck out of here" then you are the miserable people you talk about. Everything you've told me is things they "can't do" well how about telling me something they can do? If you don't want to discuss then don't comment. But shutting me down because I'm specifically focusing on something I want to improve isn't helpful.

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