normal audio cd from a dvd movie soundtrack

[hilario]

Hi all:

I'm trying to make a normal audio CD from a DVD movie soundtrack.
I have extracted the audio from the movie using PGdemux and I get an ac3 file.
The problem is that now I cannot burn this file to a CD.
How can I change this ac3 to mp3 ?? Of course I would prefer a free tool to make the convertion.
Tried many solutions but so far all the programs I've tried dont recognise the AC3 file !!!
Tks for yr sugestions.
hilfer.

[guns1inger]

You don't want to convert it to MP3 is you want to create a real audio CD. You want to convert it to a 44.1kHz Uncompressed WAV file. try Besweet, DaudioK or HeadAche.

[hilario]

Hi guns1inger:

Besweet is one of those I tried that dont recognise the ac3 file !!
With DaudioK i get always a run-time error "6" - overflow !!!


what am I doing wrong ??

hilfer.

[hilario]

Headache not working also.

There's always something missing !!!

[guns1inger]

Can you play the AC3 file ? If could be corrupt, depending on how you demuxed it, in which case you may need to run it through AC3fix. Or you you may just need to install something like AC3 ACM Decompressor to read it properly.

[AlanHK]

BeSplit is another little utility that can fix AC3 files.

[hilario]

Thank you both.
I'm trying all available solutions.

will be back with results a.s.a.p

[tinker]

I use BeSweet with BeLight (GUI), no problem with ac3 audio conversion.
Try to download ac3 filter at Doom9, maybe it will help.

[hilario]

Hi tinker:

I tried bsweet with bsweet gui, but for any strange reason I cannot select the imput file !!!

[tinker]

The way BeLight GUI works is strange. Just locate your ac3 file in upper window, it has browser, than click what you want to convert it to and Start.
It will place new file in same directory as original.

[hilario]

I cant do it with those programs Tinker !!!


Ok so now I have an ac3 file that I can play on my players but now my problem is I cant burn it to normal cd's !!!
Ashampoo recognizes the file but cannot work it out.!!!

Any ideas ??

EDIT: ok i can burn it with ashampoo selecting :"create a WMA cd that can be played on cd players with WMA support"

Does that means that a normal cd player can play it ??

[tinker]

All CD players will play wav file, that is normal audio CD format, some will play mp3.
Not sure about WMA.
What is your problem with BeSweet?
What version of BeSweet and BeLight do you have?
What is you operating system, WinXP or Vista?
You can try Audacity, I think that one can convert also.

[hilario]

Just doing it with audacity eh..eh.. waiting for final result.
tks.

[hilario]

I did it but after many convertions so I think result is not the best.
Steps were:

From dvd I extracted the audio using pgdemux
Then the audio ac3 was converted to wav using ac3tool, then I used audacity to make it a mp3 file (with lame).
Now I splited it in 2 parts so that I can burn the 2 final mp3 files on 2 cd's.

Probably this is not the best way to do it and before burning I will still try another way.

tks for yr help.

hilfer.

[tinker]

First part with PgcDemux is fine. Why do you use so many tools after?
ac3tool will convert to wav, just make sure the wav is at 44.1 kHz.
ac3 from DVD is at 48 kHz.
Audacity is OK for splitting to individual songs if that's what you want.

[AlanHK]

I did it but after many convertions so I think result is not the best.
Steps were:
From dvd I extracted the audio using pgdemux
Then the audio ac3 was converted to wav using ac3tool, then I used audacity to make it a mp3 file (with lame).
Now I splited it in 2 parts so that I can burn the 2 final mp3 files on 2 cd's.

How long (minutes) is this?

A CDR normally holds about 800 MB of data. If MP3, that's about 800 minutes at 128 rate; or if you use higher quality, say 224 kb, still over 200 minutes. You can't fit the MP3 on one CD?

(Anyway, Lame is an excellent MP3 encoder, though there are easier way to use it than in Audacity (eg, CDEx). But if it works, the result will be fine.)

But I thought you wanted a normal audio CD? (Which is about 80 minutes.)
If you're converting to AC3 to MP3, then WAVE, that's not a good idea, each conversion degrades the quality. Skip the MP3.

Once you have WAVE files, there are many ways to burn an audio CD.
Eg, with ImgBurn.

[hilario]

Ok I think I did it faster.

Extraction with pgdemux.
the extracted ac3 file converted with mediacoder audio.
And now to split musics and to seprarte them for 2 cds audacity !!!

What do you think ??

Now, is there a easy way to split the musics with audacity ?? I never did that !!!

you are all very helpfull thank you once again.

[tinker]

I do not use Audacity, I use Sound Forge, but it may be the same procedure.
Import complete file and highlight the song, copy/paste to new window, save as separate file.
You have to do this for every song, it will take a while.

[hilario]

Ok Thank you tinker.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Here's how I do it:
1.Use DVDDecrypter in IFO mode and split the files by chapter.
2.Use VOBEdit to demux.
3.Use AC3Tool to convert to 48kHz wav.
4.Use CDWave to convert to 44.1kHz wav.