compressing audio on a dvd to save space for better video

[CrAkD]

ok im converting 3 divx files for 1 dvdr im doing a set so ive done one disk at a bitrate of 1950k/s to fit all 3 movies on one disk and the audio at linear pcm cause i dont know how to do it another way.....i know dvd supports compressed audio what can i use to compress the audio and where can i get it?

they said to not post about converting from divx in advanced so i moved it in here i dont know hwo to delete my thread over there so mods do it for me

[puertorican138]

and the audio at linear pcm cause i dont know how to do it another way.....i know dvd supports compressed audio what can i use to compress the audio and where can i get it?

You could compress the audio to AC3 as DVD supports AC3 audio.

[CrAkD]

thats great i did that but now where do i put it? tmpgenc doesnt accept that file type? do i do it after tmpenc makes the m2v? and if i do will spruce up pick up the audio as ac3?

[trillium]

You don't need to load it into TMPGEnc. What you need to make certain now is that when you encode that you give it enough space for just the audio (much smaller in ac3 than in WAV format).

Once the encode is done (I usually use elemental stream Video only) as what time I am encoding to, Spruce Up! should have no issues loading the ac3 and the m2v file as LONG as they are the same name and in the same folder.
ex:
movie01.m2v
movie01.ac3