AVI burn DVD no sound

[Washac]

Hi

Dropped an AVI file into Toast this morning to let it encode and burn it to DVD.

It has just finished.

Nice pictures no damn sound

Any help any body...


Washac

[rumplestiltskin]

Open the AVI in QT Player or VLC or MPEG Streamclip. Check the audio format. It might be somthing not "convertible" by Toast.

MPEG Streamclip can convert many AVI's to something that Toast can convert & burn.

VLC (v0.8.4) now has an export wizard. You might try exporting the video and audio (separately). Audio as "uncompressed, integer" in a WAV container. Video as something else (I use mp4 but my destination is the iPod) in its own container. Combine in QT Player Pro and "save as" a reference movie. Drop the reference movie into Toast and get a few cups of coffee.

Let us know how it goes.

[Washac]

Hi

Thanks for trying to help with this.

I tried to split the audio and video from within VLC and received this error :-

ffmpeg: cannot open encoder
stream_out_transcode: cannot find encoder

ffmpegX tells me the audio within the AVI is:-

mp2, 48000Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s


Washac

[rumplestiltskin]

Might try Divx Doctor to see if that works some magic. It decompresses the audio stream and that might help.

[Washac]

Hi


Tried Divx Doctor, it just throws out errors

Just seen in Toast that the audio is :-

MS, 48000Hz, stereo


Washac

[rumplestiltskin]

*sigh* Might want to give MPEG Streamclip a try. It's free. You can set in and out points for 2 minutes worth of footage and then try various export methods until one of them works with Toast.

Use Toast's "Save as Disc Image" command so you won't waste any DVDs if the process throws an error.

[Washac]

OK, thanks will try Streamclip...


Washac

[Washac]

MPEG Streamclip, no pictures or sound

[chikanakan]

I think I posted this before, but Toast doesn't support AVI (DivX/Xvid) with AC3 audio.

There is a AC3Codec.component that can be installed from www.insaneness.com which will allow the AC3 audio to work.

However, our good friend Apple broke the component (and all other VBR audio CODEC) in QT 7.0.2 and it's still broken in 7.0.3.

You could go back to QT 7.0.1 and it will work. Or, we can hope Apple fixes it in a QT update.

[rumplestiltskin]

Try ffmpegX. I use v0.0.9s though 9t is the latest. If that doesn't work, foist the file off on a PC buddy and have him use VSO's DivxToDVD.

[Washac]

Silly question maybe, but what would be the best conversion encode to try in ffmpeg ?

Thanks.


Washac

[rumplestiltskin]

Okay; try this:

1. Open the AVI in QT Pro, do "Command-J", select the video in that dialog, click "Extract". You'll end up with a new QT movie named "untitled". Save it as a -reference- movie. Let's call it MYVIDEO_REF.

2. Launch ffmpegx. Drop the original AVI where indicated. Change the "Quick Preset" to "MP4 mpeg-4". Click on the "video" tab. Set the video bitrate to 5 (yes, 5). click the audo tab. Leave the audio codec as AAC. Set the bitrate as needed (but no higher than the original). Click the Encode button. you'll end up with a file named "originalfilename&extension.ff.mp4".

3. Open this file -and- that MYVIDEO_REF movie in QT Pro. From the "...ff.mp4" movie, select all and copy the audio. Switch to the reference movie (MYVIDEO_REF). Paste scaled. Save that ref movie AS ANOTHER REFERENCE MOVIE. Let's use "NewRefMovie" for it's name.

4. Drop this latest movie into Toast. Your original video was good (as it did encode) so it's the video part of the reference movie. Toast should have no problem with the AAC audio (that's the audio part of the new reference movie).

I had to use this technique (minus Toast) in order to convert an AVI with two AC3 audio streams. I selected the stream I needed in ffmpegX so I could get one stream of audio. Instead of Toast, I use MPEG Streamclip as the final app so I could get a top-quality iPod version (H264, 2-pass).

[Washac]

Okay; try this:

1. Open the AVI in QT Pro, do "Command-J", select the video in that dialog, click "Extract". You'll end up with a new QT movie named "untitled". Save it as a -reference- movie. Let's call it MYVIDEO_REF.

2. Launch ffmpegx. Drop the original AVI where indicated. Change the "Quick Preset" to "MP4 mpeg-4". Click on the "video" tab. Set the video bitrate to 5 (yes, 5). click the audo tab. Leave the audio codec as AAC. Set the bitrate as needed (but no higher than the original). Click the Encode button. you'll end up with a file named "originalfilename&extension.ff.mp4".

3. Open this file -and- that MYVIDEO_REF movie in QT Pro. From the "...ff.mp4" movie, select all and copy the audio. Switch to the reference movie (MYVIDEO_REF). Paste scaled. Save that ref movie AS ANOTHER REFERENCE MOVIE. Let's use "NewRefMovie" for it's name.

4. Drop this latest movie into Toast. Your original video was good (as it did encode) so it's the video part of the reference movie. Toast should have no problem with the AAC audio (that's the audio part of the new reference movie).

I had to use this technique (minus Toast) in order to convert an AVI with two AC3 audio streams. I selected the stream I needed in ffmpegX so I could get one stream of audio. Instead of Toast, I use MPEG Streamclip as the final app so I could get a top-quality iPod version (H264, 2-pass).

Many many thanks for taking the time to type all this in for me.

I will give all this a try in the couple of days and get back to let you know how it all went.

Cas

[Washac]

The saga of the avi file continues......


When I load the avi into QT it starts to play all be it very jerky, it keeps stopping and starting, but there is no sound.

Now QT I have always taken as a top end program/application, yet it will not play a simple avi file.

VLC plays this file with no trouble at all......


Washac

[Washac]

I think I posted this before, but Toast doesn't support AVI (DivX/Xvid) with AC3 audio.

There is a AC3Codec.component that can be installed from www.insaneness.com which will allow the AC3 audio to work.

However, our good friend Apple broke the component (and all other VBR audio CODEC) in QT 7.0.2 and it's still broken in 7.0.3.

You could go back to QT 7.0.1 and it will work. Or, we can hope Apple fixes it in a QT update.

I have reinstalled QT 7.0.1 and downloaded the CODEC, just going to give it all another try.

Where can I download the VBR CODEC ?

Washac

[macuser25]

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22994

[Washac]

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22994

Thanks...............

[Washac]

Hi All

Just to say thanks to you all for the help with this.

What I did.....

I downgraded from QT 7.0.3 to 7.0.1
Reinstalled the broken CODEC
Installed Divx Fusion Beta 6

Original AVI at this point still would not run in QT with sound but at least now I had the video working.

I converted the original AVI in ffmpeg to AVI DivX
Resulting file worked in QT
I dropped the file into Toast, resulting DVD worked fine.

So after taking a little information from everybody here I eventually got it all working.

Thank you


Washac