No DVD playback with encoded AC-3 tracks

[DJ_Izumi]

I've been using Tsunami Mpeg Encoder for some time now, years even, making VCDs, SVCDs and MiniDVDs. Just now have I finally gotten the CPU power to encode D1 DVD video and a DVD burner. Yesterday I was working on a DVD project and I decided 'Hey, no more of this MP2 stuff, I'm going to try AC-3!' So I fired up BeSweet and began to encode Dolby Digital 2.0 tracks from the original audio tracks.

These AC3 files playback fine all alone in Media Player, F00bar 2000 and other things. The issue is when I mux the AC3 tracks into an Mpeg it all goes to hell. The result was a DVD that played nothing but silence. I then began trouble shooting, Muxing an AC3 stream into an mpeg and just getting the mpeg to playback in WinDVD 5. Still silence. The odd part is, I can playback AC-3. If I use an AC-3 stream I demuxed from the Dolby Digital Trailer and mux it into something else, it DOES playback correctly. So it seems to me that it's my personal encoding of AC-3 that's going all to hell. More oddly, once in a blue moon, I do encode an AC-3 stream that plays back fine, but it's always a fluke and far to unrelable.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? :\

[axolotls]

besweet can't do AC3 correctly

use ffmpegui. i AC3 everyday on DVDs using this and it works flawlessly!

[DJ_Izumi]

Ah, thank you. A terribly simple program, I guess I'll have to do any sample rate converstion with a seperate program however, oh well. I still think I'll revert to MP2 for stereo audio and use AC-3 only when transcoding 5.1 tracks.

Speaking of which, I can use FooBar 2000 to convert AAC 5.1 audio to WAV but it spawns a 700mb audio file (For 25 min episodes of something) are there any transcoding programs that an read AAC and output AC-3 directly and internally?