Converting multi avi/mkv files with 2 audios and subtitles

[Bourni]

It's my first post here but this forum has been a great source of information for me for a long time. Before asking I want to thank you all.
What I really need is to convert 2 or 3 avi/mkv movies with 2 audios and subtitles (in avi files the subtitles are not added to the source files - srt separated files) to one DVD. I need also a basic menu in wich I can choose between audio languages and subtitles too (about authoring, I just need a suggestion/link to guide of what program to use with DIKO - DVDAuthor, DVDLab pro, etc). I tried to use DIKO with CCE and SoftEncode. The problem is that DIKO only extracts one audio file. Maybe there's something I could do to have 2 audios in DIKO and I don't what is... I tought about extracting the other audio with Virtualdubmod too... Another problem is that in some movies I need to increase one audio volume. I will have to edit this audio file after extraction. I thought about adobe audition for mp3 but and about the ac3? I'm a kind of lost here
Maybe using DIKO, in my case, is not the best solution... Suggestions here? I tried avi2dvd but I couldn't make a menu to choose audios/subtiltles and I couldn't edit the audio for getting higher volume.
Once again, thanks

[guns1inger]

Best solution - do it all manually.

1. Encode the video seperately to the audio.
2. Extract both audio tracks seperately. Fix as required. Use ffmpeggui to encode as AC3.
3. If you have AC3 audio, use headache or similar to convert to wav to fix, then encode back when you are done.
4. DVD Lab Pro to create menus for audio and sub selection. There are tutorials at mediachance for making these.

Total control over quality and outcome, instead of trusting something else to do it for you.

[Bourni]

Thanks for your reply, guns1inger
1- How to encode separetely the video? Should I still use DIKO to extract the video? If not, wich program do you suggest?
2 - How and wich program should I use to extract audio tracks separetely?
3 - I have movies with one AC3 audio and the second audio track is mp3. "headache" is a program that converts non wav(ac3, mp3, etc) to wav files, right? After this conversion, I edit with adobe audition and then encode back the original ac3 audio with ffmpeggui?
Another problem... All my movies are in 2 separted files of 700MB. DIKO join the 2 avi and srt files into one avi and one srt. How to extract separetely the audio then?

[guns1inger]

At the top of this forum is a field labelled Search in it try any of the following

extract mkv
mkv to mpeg2
mkv to dvd

and you will find your answers.

I haven't ever downloaded an mkv file. I know what I know about them from reading posts here. I suggest you do the same.

[Bourni]

guns1inger, I'd spent days in search stuff... I got confused there but learned a lot. Let's forget about the mkv files and talk about just the avi ones.
As I said before, the majority of my 2 audio tracks movies are splitted in two files of 700MB each and with 2 separeted srt subtitles. I tried to join some of these splitted avis into one with Easy Video Joiner but got errors then. Some, the program simply doesn't join and others the result are not OK. Even if I had sucessfully joined the avi files, I would have to join subtitles too. Hard work... That's why I like to use DIKO. It joins avis, subtitles and extract video and audio in one step. But I got stucked in the second audio extraction and about the fixing low volume in audios too. Any suggestions?

[guns1inger]

I always do audio seperately and add it in at authoring time. Where I have had 2 part avi files, I have had success using the Load/Append feature in Virtualdubmod to get a single file, then demuxing the avi (or saving as uncompressed wav if necessary) for later processing. If it is AC3 I don't touch it. If it is stereo then I encode as 2 channel AC3 at 224kbps and add it to the disc later. I then join the video in avisynth and encode with either CCE or ProCoder.

Subs are a different matter. I don't do them a lot, and to date haven't had to try to join them, so I can't help you there.

[Bourni]

Thanks guns1inger. I just used VirtualDubMod to extract both audios and video without audio separetely. It did the trick!
http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/70/59/
Subtitle workshop joined subtitles perfectly in just 3 clicks of mouse. Now I'm going to editing low audio and after, for the CCE encoding.

[Bourni]

Back here again... And yes guys, I tried the search button already... The problem: the mp3 audio extracted from the file is out of sync. The AC3 one is OK. I've been testing and trying to extract this mp3 audio with sync by myself but I gave up. Suggestions?