Some SVCD audio questions. Thanks

[scottb721]

My DVD to SVCD process is shown below.
I'd like to have the directors comments on my SVCDs. What options need to be selected throughout my path to ensure my SVCD has more than just the primary audio stream.
I know how to remove and/or remap audio in DVDdecrypter but that's about it.
I haven't been able to turn this into a 2 stream SVCD so I'm missing something out along the way.
My SVCDs come out generally fine, but I'd just like to have a second audio stream to pick from?

I have "Decode to WAV" selected in DVD2AVI.

What settings must be selected to ensure multi audio SVCD?

One more thing,
My SVCDs seem to be a little quite and require the volume on the stereo turned up more than normal. Any Ideas for a fix?

Thanks for any help.

[poopyhead]

i think this is how it goes for 2 audio SVCD:

extract the extra audio track you want (in this case, it's the director's commentary) with dvd2avi (or some other proggie)...then manually encode this to a mpeg 2 audio file. you can just mux this with your regular dvd rip of the movie (video + regular audio)...

as for volume too low:

try normalizing (higher quality better) in dvd2avi

[scottb721]

Hi Poopyhead. Thanks.
I went through the DVD2AVI process again but this time I selected track 2 under Audio\Track Number.
The resulant wave file was indeed the Directors comments.

So now I have produced the two audio WAV tracks and also created two .D2V files for the video.
One .D2V for each WAV file. These .D2V's will be identical and I only need one .D2V file for the TMPGE encode.
Correct?

I'm a bit lost with converting the WAV to MPEG and Muxing.
Is it just the 2 audios that are muxed or is it 2 complete copies of the movie, one with track 1 and the other with track 2, that are muxed?

I tried using TMPGE to convert just the audio but it seems to want over 1 hour to do just 45mins of audio. I thought that it could go faster since no video file was selected.

Do you know of any guides that look at the multi audio track process.

Thanks very much

[poopyhead]

ok,

i think you need to just encode the movie regularly with the .d2v file that came with the original .wav file.

once you have the .mpg rip, keep that.

with the other .wav file, use external audio encoder, such as lame or besweet (look under tools section) and encode that director's commentary .wav file into mpeg 2 audio.

then you can mux the mpeg 2 audio of the director's commentary with the .mpg rip you made earlier (try using tmpgenc's mpeg tools to mux)

[scottb721]

For the audio only encode of the 0x81 WAV file,
Can I just select "ES (Audio Only)" in the Stream Type box of TMPGE's main window and let TMPGE do the audio encode and forget about Besweet and TooLame ?

cheers

[poopyhead]

dunno too much about that setting in tmpgenc, why don't u try toolame or besweet??? i don't think they're that hard..they have good GUI's

[scottb721]

Finally, I think!

I see a lot of WAV to MP2 stuff.
Is "WAV to MP2" the 'tool' I need to convert the 0x81 WAV file for later muxing with the MPEG movie file?
I'm just not sure if an MPEG2 Audio file is the same as MP2 file.

Thanks again