Tempgenc DVD Author can't find audio

[scottvf]

I have a 3 stooges dvd that I want to reauthor. I load into dvd author choose my episode and audio (Dolby Digital (AC-3) 4800 Hz, 2ch) and click next.
Then select ok on option screen. Then in the audio input name is says <unspecified> This is the first time I've had this problem with a dvd. For some reason it can't find the audio, yet it finds it in the Add dvd wizard. I know it has audio in the .vob because it plays when I play the vob in power dvd. Anybody know how to correct this without re-rendering the episodes?

Tried running each episode through dvd2one, nero encode, dvd toolbox, but dvd author still can't find the audio even though the others can.

[steveryan]

I had that problem many moons ago, some films it just wouldn't see the audio. What i'd do now is rip with DVD Decrypter in IFO mode and demux the audio and then try to import the ac3 file into TMPGEnc DVD Author (import the DVD as normal), i'm not saying it will work but it's worth a go.

[scottvf]

I have all the files on my hd and I used virtualdubmod to demux the audio into ac3 file. I then add it into dvd author. It works except it doesn't sync up.

[bdf24]

Yes I've also had this happen of a few films I tried to split to two disks then use DVDAuthor to create menues. The first disk would have an audio track. But the second would'nt. The funny thing is that the second disk played audio fine when played thru Power DVD. But as soon as I ran the VOB's thru DVD Author there was no audio track. Only on the first disk.

But then I've had movies split fine and reauthor with audio on both disks. Who know's?

[dafreak]

I would rip the files to hd.
demux the audio and video using vobedit

then add the m2v and ac3 files into tmpgenc dvd author

[dafreak]

I have all the files on my hd and I used virtualdubmod to demux the audio into ac3 file. I then add it into dvd author. It works except it doesn't sync up.

when you demuxed the audio, did you select full processing?
if you chose direct stream process, that might be why your video and audio are not syncing

[scottvf]

I didn't try demuxing the video also. I just demuxed the audio and used the original VIDEO_TS files for the video. I'll have to try demuxing the video as well.
Thanks, Don't know why I didn't think of trying that? (I must of had a brain fart)

I'll let you know it that works

[scottvf]

Well, that didn't work. After I add the video file and goto add the audio I get an "Illegal audio format Error, for dvd you can only use the following formats - Dolby Digital (AC-3), MPEG-1 Audio Layer-2 or Linear PCM."
Which as I can tell it is Dolby digital .ac3.
Going to demux the audio with virtualdubmod since dvd author let me add it before. Or convert it to a wav

[scottvf]

Well, Now I noticed that dvd author won't reconize the .m2v demuxed video file. Instead of vobedit I tried vobrator to demux and I got 3 .m2v files which was wierd since the .vob only contained 20 min episode.
But I finally found the solution.
1. I demuxed the audio with Vobrator
2. add the video folder with the episode
3. Then add the demuxed audio

The demuxed audio from virtualdubmod wasn't in sync but the audio from vobrator is.

[dafreak]

heh, glad you got it working