TMPGEnc DVD Author Audio problems now.

[dudeman316]

OK here's the deal. I am trying to redo an DVD that someone capture from TV & threw together theirself, but the menu stinks. I am trying to use TMPGEnc DVD Author to create a menu more to my liking. I used DVD Shrink to rip the DVD to my Hard drive. I add the 1st vob file, no probs. I then try to add the 2nd or even 3rd-8th files, I keep getting this message: The existence of audio differs from the present track.
The existence of audio has to be standardized on the track. So I then try adding a new track, works fine, no error message, but no sound either, the area where the audio supposed to be says unspecified.

Anyone care to tell me why this does this & how i can fix this.

[Baldrick]

have you tried add by click on add dvd video and select the video_ts folder instead just of open the vobs?

[dudeman316]

I use the Add DVD video option & choose the Video_TS folder. After I do that I am prompted to choose the different titles. And the results what i originally posted

[dudeman316]

I have just tried DVD-Lab to demultiplex as show in this guide: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=224833
but when i load the VTS_02_1_1.ac3 audio file that corresponds with the VTS_02_1_0.mpv file. I get this message from TDA:

*Illegal audio format.

Illegal audio format.
For a standard DVD you can only use the following audio formats:

Dolby Digital (AC-3), MPEG-1 Audio Layer-2, or Linear PCM.

[Baldrick]

try fix it, ac3fix or beslice included in besplit.

[dudeman316]

how can i get ac3fix to work in windows xp?

[Baldrick]

did you try ac3fixgui ? but you don't have to use it...you can just drag and drop the ac3 on the ac3fix.ex and you will get a new fixed ac3 file.

[dudeman316]

I think I got it. I have done the following:
Used DVD Shrink to rip vob files to my HDD.
Then used DVD-Lab to demultiplex.
Then I used BeSweetGUI and used the AC3 to AC3 converstion. Then loaded all original demuxed VTS_02_1_0.mpv with the newer VTS_02_1_0.ac3 i created with BeSweet, load into TDA, no probs. Going to burn & report back.

[dudeman316]

...you can just drag and drop the ac3 on the ac3fix.ex and you will get a new fixed ac3 file.

I have tried dragging & dropping it on the exe, but I just get a brief MSDOS screen flash & nothign else.

[dudeman316]

Sucess!!! This method worked !!! This time lol.

I think I got it. I have done the following:
Used DVD Shrink to rip vob files to my HDD.
Then used DVD-Lab to demultiplex.
Then I used BeSweetGUI and used the AC3 to AC3 converstion. Then loaded all original demuxed VTS_02_1_0.mpv with the newer VTS_02_1_0.ac3 i created with BeSweet, load into TDA, no probs. Going to burn & report back.