can you hear that??

[lucasiga]

I am having terrible problems converting .avi videos to mpeg2 videos for when it's done converting, either with tmpgenc or with tmpgenc dvd author, the sound will not appear at all, this is very frustating for each process takes about 10 hours each!!! Does anyone know what I am doing wrong???

[lordsmurf]

GSPOT

[Grimey]

I believe what lordsmurf means (just to clarify :P ) is that you need to look up your file in Gpsot and see what kind of audio it is. TMPGEnc doesn't like some audio formats.

[deckard8]

Try TheFilmMachine for one-click avi to vcd/svcd/dvd conversions.

[sacajaweeda]

Are your settings in TMPGEnc set to generate system or elementary streams?

[lucasiga]

I dunno, should they be on ES or System???

[Grimey]

It should be set on System(video+audio)

[lucasiga]

ok so......I click on DVD-->NTSC-->"which layer audio do I pick???" then I add my .avi file, leave the video type to non-interlace, leave the aspect ratio to 1:1 (VGA) and then in window 4 I leave eveything like it is and write to make the file size 100% of the disk capasity and in the last window, I leave the checkbox unchecked, which audio layer do I choose??? I think I may be messing up on that part of the encoding.... another thing, is it ok that it first analyzes the whole video and then finally encodes it???

[sacajaweeda]

Just have TMPGEnc output the video stream by itself (ES). Use VirtualDub to extract the audio from your source AVI and save it as WAV, then use something like BeSweet to convert your audio to AC3. TMPGEnc does a crappy job encoding audio, IMHO.