Legacy VHS_AUDIO to Audio🎥🅥🅗🅢

This is a compatibility adapter that takes audio in VHS's old VHS_AUDIO format and converts it to ComfyUI's standard AUDIO type. It's the mirror image of the "Audio to legacy VHS_AUDIO" node, and you'll usually meet the two as a pair. If a fresh build never touches the legacy format, you'll never need this - it exists to keep older third-party nodes talking to the modern graph.

The backstory (it's the reason the node exists)

VHS used to carry audio around in its own internal VHS_AUDIO format, designed for performance rather than convenience. When ComfyUI introduced a proper standardized AUDIO type, VHS moved to that everywhere. Cleaner and more interoperable - but a handful of custom node packs external to both ComfyUI and VHS were written against the old VHS_AUDIO and never updated. So VHS keeps these two converter nodes around: one to feed those old nodes, and this one to take their output back into the modern format so the rest of your workflow can use it.

Why you'd reach for it

You've got some older external node that only emits VHS_AUDIO, and everything downstream - Video Combine, a save node, an audio processor - expects standard AUDIO. ComfyUI won't connect the mismatched types, so the wire won't take. Drop this converter in and the legacy audio comes out as standard AUDIO, ready to route anywhere.

In practice you often bracket an old node with both converters: Audio to legacy VHS_AUDIO going in, this node coming out.

How it works

No processing to configure - it reinterprets the audio from the legacy VHS_AUDIO container into ComfyUI's standard AUDIO container. One input, one output, no widgets.

Inputs and outputs

• vhs_audio (input, VHS_AUDIO) - legacy-format audio produced by an external node.
• audio (output, AUDIO) - the same audio in ComfyUI's standard format.

Installing it

comfy.icu ships VideoHelperSuite in the image, so the node's already available.

Locally: ComfyUI Manager → search ComfyUI-VideoHelperSuite → install → restart. Or clone it:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/Kosinkadink/ComfyUI-VideoHelperSuite

then restart ComfyUI.

Common issues

Know when you don't need it: if your audio is already standard AUDIO end to end, this converter is dead weight - just wire the audio straight through. The signal that you genuinely need it is an external node whose output is typed VHS_AUDIO and won't connect to your modern nodes.

If the node itself is missing from the menu, that's the pack-level failure rather than anything about this node. VideoHelperSuite failing to import - a NumPy version clash, or a broken ffmpeg reporting No valid ffmpeg found - takes all its nodes offline together. The ComfyUI startup log names the real cause; reinstall through Manager to bring them back.