CCE Pal to Ntsc conversion-NO AUDIO

[ranosb]

Trying to convert a PAL DVD9 to NTSC format using CCE and the following guide.
But for some reason the wav file produced by cce is silent, and when finished the movie has no audio as well!?
I did uncheck the "FOR DVD" box as well in CCE so it uses the avs script...
Any suggestions?
http://www.eggshellskull.com/pal2ntsc/

[Alex_ander]

Use the audio stream demuxed by DGIndex from original source for authoring your DVD. That guide mentions it in step 13. Usually delay value (if any) is written into audio file name.

[guns1inger]

If you followed that guide completely you would notice that the box for audio processing in CCE is not ticked, and CCE does not process any audio. That is a good thing. CCE's audio processing is not the best.

What the guide doesn't even seem to talk about is the audio. The process should produce a video that is the length as the original source, so what you need to do is demux the original audio using DGIndex, then use this and the new video elementary stream created after the DGPulldown step, to author your new disc. Aside from a throw away line in the last step that says author with audio (d'oh), it doesn't tell you how to get the audio, or what to use. All in all a pretty average guide.

[ranosb]

DGMPGDec, AKA DGIndex, is run again this time loading the .m2v extension file created from the DGPulldown and the audio is combined from there?

[Alex_ander]

When you are creating d2v project file using 'save project' in file menu of DGIndex, the audio is demuxed in the same process. Make sure you have 'demux all tracks' checked in audio menu.
If you have already encoded mpeg file (with silent wav), you'll need to demux elementary video stream m2v to be able to use it in DGPulldown. You can use DGIndex for this (save project and demux video option). After you apply DGPulldown, you'll have: a) elementary video stream from it and b) the audio stream from DGIndex. Use these 2 streams in your DVD authoring application like Muxman, GFD, DVDLab or what you planned to use. That is where and when the streams are combined.

[ranosb]

Okay, I don't think I quite follow you, first time at this.
I have these files produced from the guide, everything followed except the audio was not unchecked in CCE. Using CCE SP 2.70.02.12(different interface) so didn't notice that.

Now I run DVDFab or DVDLab and author and which files do I use, or was I supposed to do something additionally to the guide, loading the m2v file into DGMPGDec?
Thanks

[guns1inger]

You want to author with the default.mpv.pulldown.m2v file for video, and the HP_Goblet+of_Fire_T80.....AC3 file for audio. Use DVD Lab pro to author, and burn the results to a Verbatim +R DL disc with Imgburn.

[ranosb]

Thank you very much...
Im a nobbie at this so your patience and participation is much appreciated...

[sambat]

In defence of the guide, Step 5 says that the audio tracks are listed when 'F5' is pressed.
It mentions under 'Audio' to 'demux all tracks'.
And it says to use a software player to list and play the tracks to figure out which to keep - pretty reasonable suggestion.
Step 13 is explicit about using the pulldown(ed?) .m2v and the selected audio.
Although the guide ain't perfect - which one is - it does the job.

[ranosb]

Yes it does say to use the .m2v and audio to author, but I fiqured it was the wav file that was produced which was larger than the .ac3 files, and wondering why it was silent.
Yes demux all tracks is stated in the guide.

But to add;
-the "for dvd" box should be unchecked in cce to use the .avs script
-25 to 29 should be checked in DGPulldown, since this is selected in cce