Converting AC3 Audio guides not working

[Cactusjack1999]

OK I'm trying to get this Xvid movie with AC3 audio to convert properly and for some reason , even after following all teh guides to the letter it won't convert.

It will just do teh vidoe and no audio, and even when I try the multiplexing it said "ILLEGAL MPEG ?????????" (I can't remember the third word)

How does this ACM thing work? Is it alot easier than the guides?

Please this takes atleast 6 hours to do and I really don't have the time ti keep screwing arround with it the way I have been.

[jimmalenko]

Please this takes atleast 6 hours to do and I really don't have the time ti keep screwing arround with it the way I have been.

LOL. You obviously haven't been doing video editing for long !

[Cactusjack1999]

1. I'm a Television production major at college, don't tell me what that I don't know how to edit.

2. The time to convert from the AVI to m1v in TMPGE for me is roughtly, you guessed it, 6 hours. Slow computer I know

3. I have followed these guides to the letter. I cannot figure out where the guide is going wrong that is making it not able to make a VCD compliant MPEG file

[teegee420]

Open your Xvid movie with Goldwave and save as wav. Use the wav as your audio source when making your mpeg. If you don't want to encode the video again, use FFMPEG to convert the wav file to a 224kbps 44100hz mp2 file that you can then multiplex with the mpeg that has no sound.

[Cactusjack1999]

well I checked it in VDub again

it's not Xvid. Regular Divx 5

this is really getting confusing...

[teegee420]

Why should that matter? I thought you were having problems encoding the audio.

[Cactusjack1999]

well here's the steps I've been doing.

1. Rip Audio from AVI using VDub
2. "Save as WAV", but save as .ac3 file as perscribed in guide
3. Send .ac3 file through BeSweet to convert to MP2
4. Open TMPGE.
5. MPEG Tools > Multiplexing

Now here's where it messes up.

The m1v file will load no problem when I add it to the multiplexing list

The MP2 won't load. Using the simple multiplexing it comes up with the Illegal MPEG error.

That is almost word for word from the guide and it doesn't work.

[Skynet107]

Are you sure the audio is ac3? Select File Information in VDub to verify the audio format.

[Cactusjack1999]

Yep it's AC3

it says:

AC-3 ACM Decompressor

Plus to play the audio in it, i had to download AC3Filter.

So yes I can safely say it's AC3 file format

[jimmalenko]

1. I'm a Television production major at college, don't tell me what that I don't know how to edit.

Looks like you're gonna fail !

There are many many people here who know shitloads more than you. Don't pull that college crap here !

Lesson over.

To be constructive, Have you tried using the project wizard or forcing TMPGEnc to mux in the main screen ?

[mats.hogberg]

Why not do as some has suggested - load the AVI in Goldwave and Save WAV. (Or extract as AC3 with VDub, run it thru AC3fix, then convert to wav with headac3he.) Then use this wav as audio source in TMPGEnc.´

/Mats

[Cactusjack1999]

1. I'm a Television production major at college, don't tell me what that I don't know how to edit.

Looks like you're gonna fail !

There are many many people here who know shitloads more than you. Don't pull that college crap here !

Lesson over.

To be constructive, Have you tried using the project wizard or forcing TMPGEnc to mux in the main screen ?

You know there are people like you in the world only because murder is illegal.

I have learned to edit using mostly physical VHS tape and on a program called Avid Express DV. So going from a $4000 editing suite to whatever I can download for free and get working on my computer is a pretty big jump

So please spare me your insults, I am simply looking for some help. If you think it's funny to put people down just because they haven't been arround this board as long as you have. Then you have some serious problems.

Anyways. Yes I have tried but it won't mux the audio when I encode or it locks TMPGe up completely

[jimmalenko]

Boxing match over. Sorry dude, beats me !

[Kolosus]

I have been building and repairing PC's since the mid 80's. I have used the best and worst out there when it comes to hardware and software.
From $50,000 CAD programs to freeware written by a 14 year old kid in his basement. The difference I have found over the years is simply the cost.
My point here is not to pick up the boxing match where it left off, but rather to add perspective. Don't see those programs as expensive or cheap. But simply as tools to get the job done.

These guys field questions for fun and for free. And yes, believe it or not, there are guys on here who have more experience and knowledge than you and I put together. But don't forget, troubleshooting problems over the internet as opposed to being there in person can be as frustrating for them as it has been for you so far. I have seen some of these guys go to great lengths to help find a problem and fix it for people they don't even know. Be patient and give them a chance. I think they can get you there.

If I can add my 2 cents to this problem though, it sounds as if the file is either corrupted, or there is something in the encoding that TMPGEnc just doesn't seem to like.

[bugster]

Open your Xvid movie with Goldwave and save as wav.

or

extract as AC3 with VDub, run it thru AC3fix, then convert to wav with headac3he.

Either of those should work. If not then it is likley a corrupted Ac3.

[just-me]

TRY THIS!! Instead of extracting the audio, run the whole file through TMPGEnc but, under Environmental Settings/ VFAPI PlugIn in TMPGEnc, lower the priority of BMP/PPM/TGA/JPG File reader to -2 and raise the priority of the DirectS, and all others to 0how Multimedia File Reader to +3, and all others to 0. TMPGEnc should be able to encode the audio then. TRY IT!!

[BJ_M]

1. I'm a Television production major at college, don't tell me what that I don't know how to edit.

Looks like you're gonna fail !

There are many many people here who know shitloads more than you. Don't pull that college crap here !

Lesson over.

To be constructive, Have you tried using the project wizard or forcing TMPGEnc to mux in the main screen ?

You know there are people like you in the world only because murder is illegal.

I have learned to edit using mostly physical VHS tape and on a program called Avid Express DV. So going from a $4000 editing suite to whatever I can download for free and get working on my computer is a pretty big jump

So please spare me your insults, I am simply looking for some help. If you think it's funny to put people down just because they haven't been arround this board as long as you have. Then you have some serious problems.

Anyways. Yes I have tried but it won't mux the audio when I encode or it locks TMPGe up completely

avid express Dv is crap really ... plus you can even download a free version .. they have cut the price on that so many times .... its like $1500 now..

our editing suites are several $100,000 and $100,000 's (or more) and ive been doing audio and video work for more than 20 years --and every day i still learn something new, sometimes its even from some high school kid ..

[jimmalenko]

I'm a Television production major at college

Is this a project 4 skool ?

[aguillon]

Actually if you have AC3-ACM installed, you should be able to process your AVI file straight without having to split the Audio (although I have found that my TMPGEnc did not like it, no matter what settings I chose).

My personal experience was to run the avi file through Virtual Dub, and frameserve to TmpgEnc - this worked for me.

Other solutions suggested above should work. For extracting the audio, though, I would use Virtualdub Mod or Virtualdub Ac3 version. Dunno how other versions handle ac3 files extraction with Ac3-ACM to be honest.

For conversion to PCM WAV I use Headac3he and it works fine. For damaged tracks, I use besweet to fix the AC3 headers. Very few files have resisted me that way

[Laddydaddy]

If you have the ac3 acm decompressor installed you can save the audio as a wav file with vdub and use that. You can then load the avi and wav files into virtual dub and frameserve them, or load them directly into TMPG and encode your video.