Capturing &/or Importing 5.1/AC3 files

[Chaseskip]

Is there any way of Capturing 5.1 Optical in Vegas or any other program?
Also, is there any way of importing a 5.1 file back into Vagas after rendering as an AC3 file?

Before anyone asks, yes, I have an Optical 5.1 in Sound Card, & yes, there are cicumstances I will use this. re-capturing from a DVD I have already have completed, but deleted all the files.

I am hoping there maybe a way other than capturing all 5 seprate channels as single mono wave files.

[yoda313]

Hello,

If you have the dvd why don't you rerip it? You could use dvd decrypter and do stream processing for just the ac3 files. Also you could rip the vob and use besweet to get 6 mono wav files.

Kevin

[Chaseskip]

Yes... I could do that. but I'm still looking for anything that will capture 5.1 optical.

[Blazey]

Hello,

If you have the dvd why don't you rerip it? You could use dvd decrypter and do stream processing for just the ac3 files. Also you could rip the vob and use besweet to get 6 mono wav files.

Kevin

This is something that has been driving me nuts! Do you know of a guide for this? I haven't found one here, but I'm sure it exists.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Blazey - This guide could help you:

https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?link=180

Also are you using the besweet gui??? besweet is dos based. The gui makes it a LOT easier. If you have more specific questions one of us should be able to help.

Kevin

[Blazey]

Thanks Yoda,

I'm not sure that was exactly what I was looking to do. Here's where I am:

I have some DVD's encoded with AC3 audio. I do my authoring with DVD Architect 2.0 and it does not accept an AC3 file in. Only out on the final encode.

Is there a way to rip a DVD and convert AC3 to PCM/WAV/MPEG audio on the fly? Can DVD decrypter give me the raw files I need to run through BeSweet?

All my past experiences have been ripping DVD's with native PCM audio. Now this new customer of mine has been encoding everything as AC3. I have been capturing his commercial segments from disc like they were VHS, but I am losing something and I can't give him this product.

I'm a total noob at conversion so if these have been answered already, I apologize.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Blazey - Yes dvd decrypter can do stream processing of just the ac3 files. You can then use besweet to convert these ac3 files into what you need. Tmpgenc dvd author will accept ac3 files. You need the ac3 plugin (extra) to edit the video. However if you just plug in a chapter or a whole video as is you don't need it. I'm at work now but I could get you some screen shots if you want them this weekend.

Kevin

[Chaseskip]

So..... basically, no one has any information on how to capture 5.1 Audio with optical inputs?

[Blazey]

@ Yoda,

Thanks for the help! I finally got it and I am a happy camper.

@ Chaseskip-

I have an Echo/MIA system for multi track recording. In order to RECORD (it's not really capturing anymore) 5.1 You would use 3 cards in series with each assigned to record 1 mono track. You will need to capture to a multi track environment such as Vegas or any of the Cakewalk applications with multitrack ability. You will need to assign each track to each signal (i.e. FL, FR, LFE, etc) An optical out wont work here (I don't think). You will need 6 spearate outputs (one for each track). You wont be capturing the audio, but recording it this way. Now, I haven't done this for a movie, but this is how I record Durms, Guitar, Bass, Keys, etc. in a live situation.

That's all I can offer on the subject.

How you would synch this with the video, I have no idea due to the fact that you wont be able to capture the Audio/Video as one file.

[yoda313]

Hello,

After merging: If the video is .mpg try virtualdubmpeg2. If it's avi use regular virtualdub. There is a synch option.

Is the video/audio already mixed???? If it isn't merge them first using tmpgenc if it's not ac3 audio. You'll have to use something else for ac3 5.1. Maybe dvdlab.

Kevin

[Chaseskip]

Blazey,

I have a 5.1 Optical Sound Card In/Out & was wondering there was any S/W to capture in that manor...
I understand how to do it manually with separate mono channels running through multiple stereo cards.

I was wanting to capture from 5.1 optical devices.

[Cornucopia]

Unless your sound card came with the software supporting this function/feature, you're probably SOL.

Scott

[chicola]

See if this thread helps:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=190946