File sizes - what am I doing wrong? + Howl's Moving Castle

[Ibsen3]

Hello all,

This thing is driving me insane. I simply have an avi file of Battle Royale with subtitles all ready (as a .sub file, I think which appears to work fine with VobSub). The initial problem I had was an error that appeared in VirtualDub:-

VirtualDub has detected an improper VBR encoding in the source avi file and will rewrite the audio header with standard CBR values during processing for better compatibility. This may introduce up to 5660 ms of skew from the video stream. If this is unacceptable, decompress the *entire* audio stream to an uncompressed wav file and recompress with a constant bitrate encoder. (bitrate: 121.4 [weird symbol here like a combination of + and =] 17.5 kbps)

I haven't the tiniest clue what this means but I saved a WAV file anyway because that's what I thought the problem was. I was planning to add this WAV file to the AVI in TMPGEnc once I had added subtitles. I went through the normal process of saving a subtitled avi to avi and I continue to get hit with files of approximately 93 GB!!!!! Despite whatever fiddling I try to trouble shoot the problem, it stays the same. What the &$*£ ?

I also managed to save the avi without sound as I thought that when I finally transfer the finished product to mpeg with TMPGEnc, I could add the WAV file in the audio slot. This made a much smaller (600 MB, approximately) file but without sound. The original 700 MB file plays fine with sound but seems to use the automatic VobSub option to do so.

To clarify, I'm trying to get this avi together with sound and subtitles and convert it to a reasonably sized mpeg for playback on my DVD player.

P.S. I still have a two-disc mpeg of 'Howl's Moving Castle' without sound and no way of extracting the audio. I've tried all options, believe me, and deleted the original AVI. Does anyone have a WAV file or something (of this film) that I can use to replace the sound?

No warez -----> You are in breach of the forum rules and are being issued with a formal warning. Howl's Moving Castle will be out on DVD in november , buy it then ...

Battle Royale you can buy on DVD

/ Moderator BJ_M

[mats.hogberg]

Take a look at http://www.videohelp.com/virtualdubframeserve.htm]frameserving [/url]- does away with intermediate AVI files.
But VDub is correct - your should extract audio to wav (easiest way is just to load the AVI in Goldwave and save), then either use this wav as audio source when encoding a+v to mpg, or, encode audio separately (to AC3 using ffmpeggui) and video separately to m2v, then use these as source for your DVD authoring.

/Mats