Easiest Multiple-Audio AVI to DVD Conversion Without Desync?

[moonmonday]

Dear all,

I've been playing around with some of my avi files recently, some of which have multiple audio streams. I have been playing with VirtualDubMod, although I'll be the first to admit I don't know what a lot of it really does. I'm probably not using it to the best of its potential. I have a fairly good system, and I'm running XP Professional. I've never had any encoding problems before. I have quite a spacious hard disk, so space going spare isn't a problem either.

Anyway, what I wanted to do was to convert it to a DVD-compliant mpeg and use only one of those streams. However, if I disable the other streams and save it again through VDubMod, the audio desyncs. I have SyncView but haven't used it. I'm not sure if I would be at an advantage using it though, as I'm not sure it would pertain to my situation.

What I wanted to know is, would there be a way to just convert the avi files to DVD while preserving the audio stream I wanted? I don't care about the others, but if it avoids desync I'm more than willing to keep them. I just wanted to find something very simple and easy-to-use as possible so that I could put these videos of mine on DVD. I'm not too good with scripting and I don't know much of anything about frameserving, but if necessary I'll learn all I need to know. I would prefer to keep this as simple as possible though. I really just want to watch these videos on my TV.

If anyone could help, I'd be very grateful. Thanks in advance!

[mwkurt]

AVIMuxGUI can open and then save a file with whatever audio stream you choose. Give it a try.
Mark

[redwudz]

Another option to try if you want easy is ConvertXToDVD. It can handle multiple audio tracks., You could try out the trial version. There is also a freeware version, DivxToDVD, but I don't think it can handle multiple audio tracks.

Often sync problems are caused by MP3 VBR audio. You might want to check the file first with Gspot 2.60. If so, VirtualDub can save out the audio as a WAV, then you mux it back in and feed the modified file to ConvertX. ConvertX can handle some VBR audio, but not all.

[moonmonday]

Thanks so much, as always you've all been wonderful.

I'll give those a try as soon as possible and get back to you on how they worked.