dvd audio

[SIRCOOKS]

even though im not new to this forum, in the way of vcds i mean, but these dvds are kicking my ass right now, anyway, will an extracted wav file from v-dub work as good as a reencoded ac3 file on a dvd..holla back......i say this because im attempting to make a dvd from a downloaded vid...holla back

[SIRCOOKS]

come on man...46 views and no response yet...please...dont all answer at once

[SaSi]

If you have an AVI file, just encode it into MPEG2, both the audio and the Video. If you have an NTSC DVD player that needs AC3 or LPCM audio, you can extract the audio with VirtualDUB and either encode it into AC3 or leave it as it is - although that takes up space.

[SIRCOOKS]

ohh...so i can leave it as a raw wav file straight from v-dub...thats all i wanted to know,i though for a dvd it had to be in ac3 format

[JamesB69]

Im not 100% positive but i think all DVD's (to meet specs) are required to have a Dolby Digital track. So in other words, the ac3 will be playable on more players.

Like I said, i maybe wrong.

[SIRCOOKS]

ok, thats understandable, butim having such a rought time encoding the wav to an ac3 file with be sweet, i just cant seem to get it right, its almost as if im missing something, cause the thing just wont start to encode...ill keeep trying though...holla

[neeshman]

how and where did u get the wav out of vdub ? because the audio file may already be ac3, and in that case the wav that u have (rhymes!) is not really a wav, so all u need to do is rename it to ac3 (eg instead of audio.wav rename it to audiol.ac3) and then run it thru a program like ac3 fix to clean it up....