which program to encode audio from avi and how

[Noek]

OK i have successfully captured my avi and encoded it using TMPGEnc to M2V file (im assuming this is an mpg2). As suggested by so many people here, I encoded only the video portion. Now where I am confused is, how do I encode the audio portion to AC3 (what program) and then how do I merge the ac3 and mp2, and will it merge in sync? Sorry for all the noob questions. Thanks in advance!

[teegee420]

Open your avi with Virtualdub, go to the audio menu and select "Full Processing Mode", go to the file menu and select "Save WAV" and select a file name. While you're waiting for the wav to be created, dowload FFMPEG. Start FFMPEG and open the wav file you created. Select "AC3" as the format, select a bitrate between 192-384kbps, select 48000hz for audio sampling frequency, pick a file name and hit "Convert". Finally, open TMPGEnc, go to File>Mpeg Tools>Simple Multiplex, select your m2v as video source, your ac3 as audio source, pick a new file name and click "Run".

[Sugar]

You do not need to convert your audio from .wav to .ac3 to play on your DVD player. Just make surethe.wav sampling rate is 48kHz.

As teegee420 suggests, just load your .m2v and .wav file in the MPEG Tools of TMPGEnc, and do a a simple multiplex in MPEG-2 VBR format.

Better still, all DVD authoring format accept .wav files. So you can load directly your .m2v and .wav files in your favorite authoring format and take it from there.

Just to clarify, the main benefit of converting from .wv and .ac3 is the compression, which uses less space on the disk i.e. leaves more space for the video => compression with a higher bitrate. But if you do not have any file size issue, you may as well strick to .wav.

Now, if you need to convert to .ac3, an alternative solution is to use Besweet and the BesweetGui. Very good program.

[Noek]

I get this error in virtualdub:

[teegee420]

No problem. Install the Canopus DV Codec.

By the way, it's cool that I'm not the only one who uses Opera!

[Noek]

thanks Ill give that a try.

Opera is so the win!! How can you beat the tabbed windows and saved favorites on program launch? What it lacks in plug ins, it makes up for in ease of use.

I now hear that there is 3rd party software to make IE tabbed like Opera, but Opera > all imho

thanks again for the linky

btw, which folder do I install to?

[teegee420]

It shouldn't matter.

I've used a few other tabbed browser such as MY IE2, Green Browser, Mozilla Firebird and Tabrowser but I always come back to Opera.

[Noek]

installed that but receiveing same error :/

[teegee420]

Grrrr!!! I thought that would work. Try the Mainconcept DV Codec.

[sacajaweeda]

eeeeeeeeeeeww!!!

[teegee420]

hehe

[Noek]

Mainconcept works thanks a bunch!!