I want to convert Mpeg sound to PCM from my DVDs

[grosbarbu]

I own a dvd-cam from hitachi and all my personal recordings are encoded as mpeg audio. When i burn them onto a dvdr on my LG-4040 the sound stays the same which is a problem for my home dvd player, cause it is set to bitstream not PCM and i dont want to change the setup again and again.

I've been using Ulead movie factory 2, which was working great, cause it would convert my mpegs to pcm. But lately, the program hangs and uses 100% CPU usage, so no good anymore.

Besides that program and neo dvdplus5 (which to me has a bad dvd menu quality) is there any other one that can do the automatic conversion from mpeg to pcm ?

By the way, if anyone knows about the dvd movie factory 2 problem, and knows a way to fix that,(nothing on Ulead's web page) i would be glad to hear about it.

Thanks you very much for your help.

[Dragonsf]

How big becomes your video after converting from mp2/ac3 to PCM?Some ULEAD programs are going crazy when filesizes are getting > 4.7 GB.

[grosbarbu]

Actually i'm converting from 2 mini dvd 1.3 gig or so in vob and Ulead would convert it to mpeg and then when burning it back to a full size dvd (4.7 gig) it would chunk it up into 3 or 4 vobs at about 1.3 gig each.

OH i forgot to ask in my original question, besides mini dvdr i'm using also mini dvd-ram (also for video recordin)which are supported by ulead. Some other programs are looking for VOBs which is not available in the ram. So there is no way to take the video and convert ton dvd.

What else would work?

[Dragonsf]

I'd copy the (Mini-)DVD to HD, use any DVDRipper tool to convert the vobs to mpeg and mp2/AC3.Use BeSweet to convert the mp2/AC3 to PCM and use IfoEEdit as Authoring tool.
But a question remains:why all the work with converting to PCM?Any standalone player must be able to play at least AC3 as audio format.
Most I know of can also play mp2.

[grosbarbu]

The reason to all this converting is because i'm only connected trough optical cable to my amp and my dvd is set up to Bitstream in the audio config. so that i can play ac3 5.1.

Whenever i use a mpeg audio dvd, there is no sound and i need to change the settings.

that is why i want to make it compatible.

[Dragonsf]

I'm a little ignorant in this cas (mpeg audio DVD).What is this exactly?
Is this sort or SACD or just mp3 on DVD?My player can handle both audio streams thru optical SPDIF without changing the settings.