DVD Rip (DVD Decrypter)=>video but no audio???

[smallfry]

There appear to be some very knowledgable users here. I've seen some posts in the forums similar to my problem but not exactly. Want to extract DVD movie, edit in MPEG-2 format, save without re-encoding, and burn to DVD+/-R media.
Procedure:
- Extract DVD movie with DVD Decrypter => 1 M2V file, 1 AC-3 file;
- Multiplex into 1 MPG file using TMPGEnc;
- Load MPG file into TMPGEnc to edit but NO AUDIO and play progress indicator moves incorrectly; however, plays fine in PowerDVD.
Alternate Procedure: (this has worked before)
- Extract DVD movie with DVD Decrypter => 1 VOB file;
- Demultiplex into 1 M2V file and 1 AC-3 file using TMPGEnc;
- Multiplex into 1 MPG file using TMPGEnc;
- Load into TMPGEnc to edit but still NO AUDIO and play progress indicator moves incorrectly; however, still plays fine in PowerDVD.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Any idea what might be wrong?
Thanks.

[g_shocker182]

I suggest you use DVD2AVI:
1.) With DVD2AVI, open (unencrypted) VOB files then select under "audio" Demux to ac3
2.) Under "file", save project to whatever file you want
3.) Project should take abotu 5-10min.s for a 2hr movie - YOU MAY NOT SEE THE PROGRESS BAR, move the DVD2AVI screen to see it on the right hand side of your screen
4.) Open up TMPGEnc., select all the options you want, then for "video" source select the .d2v file that DVD2AVI created
5.) Let it make your MPG file
6.) Once its finshed, muilt-plex the finished m2v file and the ac3 file from dvd2avi.

finished mpg file w/ audio

hope this helps

[smallfry]

Thank you for your reply g_shocker182. I appreciate your suggestions.

4.) Open up TMPGEnc., select all the options you want, then for "video" source select the .d2v file that DVD2AVI created
5.) Let it make your MPG file
6.) Once its finshed, muilt-plex the finished m2v file and the ac3 file from dvd2avi.

If I understand you correctly here, you suggest using TMPGEnc to
re-encode the video to the "finished m2v file"?
If so, this will not work for me as I need to edit the original MPEG-2 video (and audio) in (or from) the ripped VOB (or m2v/AC-3) file(s). For some reason, the extracted AC-3 audio, which I multiplex with the extracted m2v video, is not audible.

Please, do you or anyone else have any other suggestions? Thank you very much.

[g_shocker182]

Try just playing the AC3 file (with PowerDVD).

Is the problem that the extracted audio from DVD2AVI plays nothing but silence?

Did you make sure that you let DVD2AVI extract the ac3 file fully? (like I said earlier it usually takes 10minutes for a 2hr movie)

There must be something else wrong - try seeing if theres something wrong with the DVD , or even your computer speakers.

If all else fails, try to extract in another format than AC3 ( I suggested AC3 because of its small file sizes), like WAV (select it under the "audio" bar). When you play that WAV file and you still can't hear anything, then get back to me.

[MOVIEGEEK]

@smallfry,
TMPGEnc does NOT support AC3 audio,I suggest using Besweet(in Tools) to convert to MP2.

[g_shocker182]

TMPGEnc does NOT support AC3 audio,I suggest using Besweet(in Tools) to convert to MP2.

yes, but he can multi-plex them with the MPEG tools

[MeTaLgEaRsOoTy]

much easier way...

rip all files with dvd decrypter.
stick it on dvd2one.
select "movie only".
pick ac3 and dts audio(english or whatever language you need).
burn to dvd-r.
and thats it,you get the audio and movie file sorted.

i noticed this quite a lot recently on some discs that have another programme or title as the main file instead of the movie,but doing it this way it works great all the time.

[smallfry]

Thanks to everyone for your help. The solution that ended up working for me was to rip the A/V using DVD Decrypter into a new VOB; extract the m2v and ac3 files using VOB Edit; multiplex into mpg file using TMPGEnc. I then downloaded some additional audio codecs and filters which allowed the audio to be heard. At this point I thought my problem was over; however, I needed to edit the mpg file in MPEG-2 format using TMPGEnc, which I did but the edited file I ended up with had no audio stream at all. So, as MOVIEGEEK noted, it appeared that TMPGEnc does not support ac3 audio (although another DVD, with ac3 audio, I ripped and edited worked fine with TMPGEnc - ???), so I used HeadAChe to directly convert the ac3 to mp2, remultiplexed with TMPGEnc, and everything worked fine.