Use to author from separate audio and video streams?

[MilesAhead]

I'm just wondering if there's a way to feed SVCD2DVD separate audio and video assets, and use it basically as an authoring app? I'm curious because I'm trying out HC Enc new 1 pass variable bitrate to get DVD video, and I can use AviDemux to save the audio stream from the source. If I could plug them into SVCD2DVD, do a menu, and author that could have big advantages over just using something like DVDAuthorGUI.

If this is possible is there a standard or best sequence or any tips tricks?
(Say for example I have an .m2v video file and an .ac3 audio track to make one title.)

[ChrissyBoy]

You could use the AVISynth script approach:

create a script like:

LoadPlugin("G:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\NicAudio.dll")
video=MPEG2Source("g:\Britney_Title01Chapter01.m2v")
audio=NicAC3Source("g:\Britney_Title01Chapter01 T01 2_0ch 192Kbps DELAY -34ms.ac3")
AudioDub(video,audio)

Obviuosly changing things to suit your setup... and then just use the script as an normal asset file.

[MilesAhead]

Thanks.

[MilesAhead]

I just have one more question, then I'll stop bugging you about this subject..

If I was to use a tool like TMPGEnc Plus mpeg mux to put the files together first, and added the .mpg as an asset, when I added a menu would that force stuff to be reencoded? Even though TMPGEnc without the plugin doesn't have ac3 support the muxer in MPeg Tools menu will happily join .m2v and .ac3 files and I'm familiar with using that technique already. (I hate learning curves.)

Thanks for your insights.

[MilesAhead]

Tried out the TMPGEnc muxing method and it seemed to work pretty well. I added a menu and the "processing" of the .mpg file in SVCD2DVD ran at @1200 fps and zipped through menu processing and authoring. Looks like a viable way of doing it esp. if there's only one source video.

[ChrissyBoy]

Nice one!