trying to extract audio from xvid (wav, ac3, or mp2??)

[budgirl357]

I am trying to encode an xvid and I am having major problems with the audio. I checked and it says mpeg-4 under the audio tab in vdub. I decided to used avi2wav to extract the wav, and after renaming to movie.ac3, I tried to load it into headac3e. Headac3e said "cannot load" or something along those lines. All the plug ins (lame, azid, etc.) were installed, and after opening the program everything on the right side of thepage looked good. So why won't it let me load my ac3 file under source file?

So I decided to go to besweet. I download the besweet and the gui, and opened the gui. the first instruction threw me off, and it didn't respond the way the instructions said it would, so I didnlt get that far. It seemed as though the instructions did not match the same program that I was working on! I did double check to make sure that I was using the latest programs and I see that I am.

What I am thinking is it may be acodec problem. I have klite codecs installed as well as giordan knot codec pack. Before installing them, I completely deleted all other (Nimo) codecs, because of a thread I saw here from a very well trusted, reputable person. Baldrick I think.

So I went back to vdub and direct streamed the audio and video and saved as a new avi. Then I extracted the wav with that. It gave me that same "detected" and re-encode with constant bit rate" message, but I just bypassed it. I plan on encoding the same way I usuallay do with tmpgenc. Lets see what happens. Now, I have encoded an xvid with vdub and tmpgenc before with no probs, not only did I see all this stuff with ac3 and xvid did I start trying all this new stuff and failing!

If anyone can tell me what they think the problem is, get to me. Maybe It has something to do with the codecs! I thought by unstalling all the other codecs from Nimo, I would be better off, and I could manually dl whatever I specifically needed. I'll be looking forward to hearing from you!

Budgirl357

[matneaves]

have you not tried to extract the audio using vdub

have you had this error before



if so the the avi nedds its audio decompressed

decompress 1st it creates another avi with _pcm.avi at end, then load into vdub and goto audio, select full processing mode, conversion to 44100, and click high quality, click compression and set to 0 (click pcm bit at top)

then goto file save wav and you have a uncompressed wav to use in your encoder