Mux .m2v and .wav files?

[Zak0]

Okay, I don't know exactly what I did wrong with my encoding, but somehow I managed to encode my video (from two sources) into a nice .M2V file but my audio is still laying here in the form of two .WAV files. Is there some tool I can use to merge the two .WAV files and then mux that audio with the .M2V file? I really don't want to re-encode the video again...

Thanks,
-Zak

[BJ_M]

convert the audio to mpeg audio amd mux those together .
its not wav files on a svcd or vcd

[Zak0]

convert the audio to mpeg audio amd mux those together .
its not wav files on a svcd or vcd

Okay, let me ask this then - how do I take the two WAV files, glue them together, and convert them to MPEG audio?

Then, my original question still stands - how do I mux the resulting audio file with the M2V video file I already have? What tool do I use (I can't use TMPGEnc 'cause it's an MPEG-2 file and my MPEG-2 trial period has expired)?

-Zak

[BJ_M]

you can use the demo version of tmpgenc to create the mpeg audio file

to combine the two wave files together - in command window (dos)

copy fileA.wav+fileB.wav newfileC.wav /B

you can mux the files together with bbMPEG (see tools section) (bbmpeg author now works for Main Concept btw)

[Zak0]

copy fileA.wav+fileB.wav newfileC.wav /B

This doesn't work. Here's what happens:

D:\Temp>dir *.wav
 Volume in drive D is DISK3_VOL1
 Volume Serial Number is E809-3114

 Directory of D:\Temp

04/20/2003  10:14 PM       266,821,868 one.wav
04/20/2003  10:17 PM        11,252,012 two.wav
               2 File(s)    278,073,880 bytes
               0 Dir(s)   6,748,336,128 bytes free

D:\Temp>copy one.wav+two.wav both.wav /B
one.wav
two.wav
        1 file(s) copied.

D:\Temp>dir both.wav
 Volume in drive D is DISK3_VOL1
 Volume Serial Number is E809-3114

 Directory of D:\Temp

04/26/2003  09:34 PM            25,042 both.wav
               1 File(s)         25,042 bytes
               0 Dir(s)   6,748,307,456 bytes free

D:\Temp>

Obviously, a 25k wav isn't the right size... Any other way to get these wav files combined?

-Zak
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[BJ_M]

copy /B one.wav+two.wav both.wav then

depends on your OS

works fine anyhow - do it all the time

[BJ_M]

C:\>copy /?
Copies one or more files to another location.

COPY [/V] [/N] [/Y | /-Y] [/Z] [/A | /B ] source [/A | /B]
     [+ source [/A | /B] [+ ...]] [destination [/A | /B]]

  source       Specifies the file or files to be copied.
  /A           Indicates an ASCII text file.
  /B           Indicates a binary file.
  destination  Specifies the directory and/or filename for the new file(s).
  /V           Verifies that new files are written correctly.
  /N           Uses short filename, if available, when copying a file with a
               non-8dot3 name.
  /Y           Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an
               existing destination file.
  /-Y          Causes prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an
               existing destination file.
  /Z           Copies networked files in restartable mode.

The switch /Y may be preset in the COPYCMD environment variable.
This may be overridden with /-Y on the command line.  Default is
to prompt on overwrites unless COPY command is being executed from
within a batch script.

[Zak0]

you can use the demo version of tmpgenc to create the mpeg audio file

Thank you for trying to help. Moving the /b to the beginning did work. When I play the new WAV with WinAMP, it stops at the end of the first part. After encoding with TMPGEnc, playing the resulting MP2 file with WinAMP has the same problem. Are you sure all of the audio will be there when I mux the MP2 file with the M2V file? Downloading bbMPEG to try the mux now...

-Zak

[Zak0]

Are you sure all of the audio will be there when I mux the MP2 file with the M2V file?

Well, it isn't. I don't think "copy /b one.wav+two.wav both.wav" is a valid way of concatenating two wav files. I'm gonna go look for a wav file editor or something, I guess. What a pain in the ass - next time I'm gonna have to make sure I get the settings right so that I get the audio AND the video at the same time in the first place!

-Zak

[Zak0]

Okay, I finally got my SVCD. I ended up using CoolEdit 2000 to glue the WAVs together, TMPGEnc to encode the new WAV to MP2, and XMuxer to mux the M2V and MP2 files toegether (I used XMuxer 'cause bbMPEG kept crashing on me).

Thanks for the help!

-Zak