Media Detection Error in Maestro

[rated_z]

I'm having a problem importing an ac3 file in DVD Maestro. The error that I'm receiving is "Media Detection Error (0xc10b0001)" when trying to import the ac3 file. The ac3 audio file is from an avi movie which I used VirtualDubMod to Demux. I have no problem with importing video files and I can even import wav files too. What am I doing wrong?

[mpack]

Does anything else recognise the file as valid?, for example Windows Media Player? (you may have to set an association between the .ac3 extension and media player in order to get it to play).

How exactly did you demux with VirtualDubMod? I use VirtualDub Mpeg and I don't remember seeing a demux feature in that version... Perhaps VirtualDubMod is different though. There is a "Save as Wav" option, but that would of course create a wav file, not an ac3. If you then forced the wav file to have an ac3 extension then that would of course account for the error message...

[maelstromdk]

Might be a bug due to something screwing up in the .mp3/.wav to .ac3 process, has happended to be earlier. Try to redo it.

[rated_z]

I can play the ac3 file in winamp. I used VirtualDubMod to Demux the original ac3 from the avi file and did not force any file to an ac3 extension. I've tried demux the ac3 file through another program ffmpeggui but only to get the same result.

[shorton]

I'm also getting this error on a couple VOB's I demuxed. I used vobedit to demux them. Some work, others give the error. Only on audio track. Any suggestions on how to work around the error?

[shorton]

Found the fix. First I tried transcoding the .ac3 files with besweet. That worked, but I didn't like the idea of altering the files, especially since I didn't know what I was doing.

So... after figuring it was something about the file that Maestro didn't like, I ran my demuxed .ac3 files through ac3fix (v1.02) and poof, every one of them imported into Maestro perfectly. Hope this helps someone.

Cheers,
Scott

[shorton]

Followup for others seeking the solution in the future...

ac3fix made it so the files would import to Maestro, but they had a lip-sync problem. So I tried a different tool which demuxed AND fixed the AC3 better than th eoriginal VobEdit and ac3fix solution.

I used ReJig 0.5e and got the audio files out with it. I chose demux and the fix ac3 timecode option. The resulting files would import to Maestro AND had no lipsync error that I could see.

Let me know if that helped anyone. Cheers,
Scott