RMVB TO DVD

[elo]

hey all,

i have dl a whole chinese series for my parents whom would rather watch on the dvd player

the files are rmvb and play fine on my computer using windows media player.

i used winavi to burn this rmvb file to dvd and the video quality was great but there was no audio. it appears winavi was unable to convert rmvb to dvd WITH audio.

the error message says
"no audio stream. which may lead converter to unable to work exactly"

can someone help me out? i have tried installing a codec like suggested in one of the forums, but no luck. i have tried converting to avi first using winavi, but i get the same problem.

thnxs guys

[celtic_druid]

Do they use aac or cook audio?
If you run mplayer.exe -ao pcm -vo null -vc dummy input.rmvb output.wav you can decode the audio to wav, which you can then convert to AC3, etc. or use mencoder to directly convert. You can also batch process the entire season, something like:
for %%f in (*.rmvb) DO (mplayer.exe -ao pcm -vo null -vc dummy "%%f" -aofile "%%~nf.wav")

[elo]

i dont know much bout the audio (aac or cook) or mplayer.

are you suggesting that i use mplayer to extract the audio, then to convert the video from the rmvb file and then merge the 2 together to get a dvd copy?

im quite new at this, so if u can water it down at bit for me, that would be very much appreciated,

thnxs again

[wincrt]

use avicodec @ http://avicodec.duby.info/ to check your rmvb file.

eg you will get something like this below, to check if its aac or cook

File : 397 MB (392 MB), duration: 1:40:06, type: RMF, 1 audio stream(s), quality: 36 %
Video : 323 MB, 452 Kbps, 24.0 fps, 608*320 (16:9), RV40 = RealVideo 9, Supported
Audio : 69 MB, 96 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 0x0 = RealAudio 8,cook-28, Supported

[elo]

thnxs wincrt,
i used avicodec and got:

File : 223 MB (220 MB), duration: 0:44:01, type: RMF, 1 audio stream(s), quality: 33 %

Video : 180 MB, 571 Kbps, 24.0 fps, 448*336 (4:3), RV40 = RealVideo 9, Supported

Audio : 40 MB, 128 Kbps, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, 0x0 = RealAudio 8,raac-2, Supported

can u teach me what to do now to burn my rmvb file to dvd??

[celtic_druid]

Well I assume that raac-2 is just aac? and therefor should decode ok using coreaac or similar. Guess maybe there is an issue with the real media directshow filters handeling aac rather than coreaac and screwing it up?

Yeah exactly, use the wav instead of the rmvb as your audio source, should solve the problem. However seeing as how you already have the video I would convert the audio to AC3, then import it along with your existing video to say TMPGEnc DVD Author or DVDLab.

[wincrt]

I think raac-2 is "real audio 10" which real license from sony. The realmediasplitter cannot play raac-2.(winavi 6 use gabest 1.0.0.9 realmediasplitter filter but they compiled it into a dll instead)

maybe coreaac as suggested celtic_druid by will work.

[celtic_druid]

Yeah, it does look like it is atrac. Not sure if there is a dshow filter available.

So winavi uses Gabest's code? Source is available? Because his code is GNU.

[elo]

okay, so i need a "coreaac" codec on my computer so that winavi is able to recognize the audio portion of the rmvb file - (this is what im getting)

where can i find this coreaac codec?

thnxs for all ur generous replies~

[wincrt]

get coreaac src @ http://coreaac.corecodec.org/ if you want to compile it yourself
or download the binary @ http://pessoal.onda.com.br/rjamorim/COREaacDS.zip


from avicodec
{941A4793-A705-4312-8DFC-C11CA05F397E};RealAudio Decoder;1, 0, 0, 9;Gabest;E:\Program Files\WinAVI VideoConverter\Filter\RealMedia.dll
{765035B3-5944-4A94-806B-20EE3415F26F};RealMedia Source;1, 0, 0, 9;Gabest;E:\Program Files\WinAVI VideoConverter\Filter\RealMedia.dll
{E21BE468-5C18-43EB-B0CC-DB93A847D769};RealMedia Splitter;1, 0, 0, 9;Gabest;E:\Program Files\WinAVI VideoConverter\Filter\RealMedia.dll

it looks like they are using gabest realmediasplitter but since they are using it only as a library, so its not a violation of GPL.

[celtic_druid]

No, it means that they don't have to license the rest of their program under GPL and therefor don't have to provide source for it. They still have to provide sources for realmedia.dll and any other GPL stuff that they used.

If it is in fact atrac/atrac3 then coreaac won't help.

[elo]

i installed the coreacc codec
but i still cannot convert my rmvb WITH audio

what shoud i do now?? and how (im REALI a newbie)

thnxs for the patience all

[elo]

RealAudio Decoder
RealMedia Source
RealMedia Splitter

i also searched for these codecs thinkin it would help, but couldnt find them

wil they solve my problem, if so, can you show me where to find it?

thnxs again

[celtic_druid]

They are all the same file. RealMedia.dll or RealMediaSplitter.ax. I did a recent cvs compile of the unicode release, however I never bothered with an ANSI one. Not sure what changes or if it would make any difference anyway.

Looks like maybe the filters just don't work with raac-2. I don't have anything to test though my original suggestion should work fine.

[elo]

WORKS FINE THANXS
i have everything working fine,
i was able to burn the dvd WITH audio

now i have another problem
each episode is *suppose* to be 44 minutes long. each file IS roughly 200mb in size

however, for some episodes i only burnt 9 minutes or only 1 minute of the episode
i went bak to the original rmvb files on my computer to view them and found the same problem. windows media player would claim that is is 44 minutes long AND the file would be 200MB, but STILL i could only view only the first 9 minutes, after which, the video would skip bak to the begging.

anyone know a remedy for this problem also??

thnxs

[wincrt]

does the files play all alright in realplayer? if it can't be play in realplayer maybe something wrong with the file. I would open the file with rmeditor (from real producer basic) and select from start to end and save it as another rm file and the new file will usually play normally from start to end.

[elo]

GOT IT GUYS
first of all, i'd like to thank you all for your time and effort
through trial and error, this is what i have come up with
originally, i used winavi to convert rmvb to dvd
and it did not work because rmvb is a relativly new format
SO i purchased the NEWEST version of winavi (6) and now i can convert FAST and FLAWLESSLY
i recommend winavi for everyone out there

THANKS AGAIN AND MERRY CHRISTMAS

ps: by the time ur reading this, i will be burnin away