HELP ME IM GOING CRAZY

[CrAkD]

ive tried every single dvd author program on the planet i have an m2v file and an ac3 file all i want to do is put them together and make a menu


dvdit PE.....wont let me load the ac3..or cant find an option for it and no one replys to my thread

maestro....cant find decoders on my computer so wont play anything

ulead movie factory...will load m2v but not ac3 (doesnt support)

ulead dvd workshop...wont load m2v (doesnt support)

spruce up....will load m2v but not ac3 ( both in same directory named exactly the same thing)

magix movies...will load m2v but not ac3

ifoedit crashes everytime i try to remux

SOMEONE HELP ME !!!!!!

[ckdexterhn1]

Go to the tools section on the left...download HeadAC3he, and use to change your AC3 to Wav or MP2. Use the new sound file to author your DVD.

[CrAkD]

that would work but i encoded the video to fit on the dvd with the ac3 pcm or mp2 will have larger file sizes

[SupaCoopa]

You probably have a 5.1 AC3 file you want to use. Since most basic authoring programs only support 2.0 AC3 files, you'll have to use ReelDVD or DVD Maestro if you want multichannel Dolby Digital.

I don't think that the lack of hardware decoders should keep you away from Maestro, which is an excellent and powerful program. If you want to preview your project before burning (and you're very right wanting to do so) just compile the project and use Power DVD to play it. It will only take fifteen minutes or so to compile and you can test all aspects of your project. You can also preview menus (static ones) from within Maestro to test navigation etc, even if you don't have decoders installed.

Hope this helps

[yf2001usa]

Hey,

Maestro will play AC3 files but you need to install another program to get a preview in maestro.

Cinemaster 2000 Dvd Player
Description: Cinemaster 2000 Dvd Player needs to be installed to fix the Realtime Preview functionality of DVD Maestro

Yf

[bobc292001]

I see you have tried SpruceUp and have both the AC3 and the M2V in the same folder which is correct ...... but have you tried running the AC3 through AC3FIX first to correct the headers???

I tried for days to get an AC3 into Spruce until someone pointed this out to me. Worked perfectly after that.

[CrAkD]

thanks to all that replied to help me i finally got dvdit pe to do what i needed to do but it had to encode its own ac3 it would crash everytime i tried to use the one i had so i just loaded the wav in and let it do its thing took like 45min to do all 3 hours of wav but atleast i got it on dvd finally maybe the ac3 fix is what i needed...im going to have to redo the whole thing tho cause somehow i got the movies mixed up linking them and i put 2 of the same movies on 1 disk which really pisses me off but now that i know hwo to do it all it shouldnt take long to fix.