No AC3 Sound On Standalone Player

[stevendm]

I have a Philips 642 and a Philips 727 player. They both play commercial DVDs just fine, both audio and video. I know my standalones are set up correctly.

Here is my problem:

I have encoded a TV cap using tmpgenc 2.54. I demuxed the wav from the original avi and converted it to ac3 with ffmpeggui. I muxed the m2v and ac3 file to an mpg with the tmpgenc tools. The resulting mpg file plays fine on my computer. When I put it in either of my standalones the video is fine but there is no audio. If I encode the wav file to mp2 and then mux to mpg I get video and audio on both my standalones and my computer.

What am I doing wrong with my ac3 file? I want to use ac3 just in case I want to author it to a DVD some time in the future.

TIA

Steven

[guns1inger]

perhaps your standalones cannot play raw mpg with AC3 audio, in which case you will have to author. DO a quick author to find out.

[stevendm]

You are a genius. Apparently the Philips cannot play the ac3 audio in a mpeg2 file.

What I decided to do is to mux 2 audio tracks with the video, one mp2 and one ac3. This way it plays fine on the computer and as an mpeg2 on the standalone. I can demux the video and audio out and author into a dvd that also plays fine. There is only about a 4% increase in file size to do this.

Thanks for the help