LPCM to AC3 woes.

[Faustus]

Not really a request for help. But several times Lately I've run into DVDs with LPCM audio, no I find that even Besweet dropped support for AC3 encoding because they say the AC3 encoder they had wasn't very good. Sheesh you'd think by now there would be an easy way to do it.

[mats.hogberg]

Yes, there is. ffmpeggui. Couldn't be simpler.

/Mats

[Faustus]

Sadly of the tools I looked at that wasn't one... are its files based on the same encoder as bsweet? And are the files fully compliant?

I found something that works very well but it takes about 40min total to convert.

Basicly I'm had to modify my DVD2SVCD method. Now if its LPCM, I use DVD Decrypter to extract the LPCM and convert it. Then take the file size of both and find the difference, then add the difference to the default setting in DVD2SVCDs file size so that it doesn't over size.

Best way I've found so far.

[fmctm1sw]

Sadly of the tools I looked at that wasn't one... are its files based on the same encoder as bsweet? And are the files fully compliant?

I found something that works very well but it takes about 40min total to convert.

Basicly I'm had to modify my DVD2SVCD method. Now if its LPCM, I use DVD Decrypter to extract the LPCM and convert it. Then take the file size of both and find the difference, then add the difference to the default setting in DVD2SVCDs file size so that it doesn't over size.

Best way I've found so far.

Will that work for just plain PCM as well? Could you elaborate a little on your "modified" method?

[mats.hogberg]

Well, all I can say is that the AC3's I've made and used when authoring my DVDs has worked without probs on my player.

/Mats

[Faustus]

Sadly of the tools I looked at that wasn't one... are its files based on the same encoder as bsweet? And are the files fully compliant?

I found something that works very well but it takes about 40min total to convert.

Basicly I'm had to modify my DVD2SVCD method. Now if its LPCM, I use DVD Decrypter to extract the LPCM and convert it. Then take the file size of both and find the difference, then add the difference to the default setting in DVD2SVCDs file size so that it doesn't over size.

Best way I've found so far.

Will that work for just plain PCM as well? Could you elaborate a little on your "modified" method?

Should work fine. Its pretty straight forward if you already know DVD2SVCD well. Just extract the audio, convert it to AC3 with either the program mats.hogberg mentioned or Sonic Foundry Soft Encode, then when its down if say the PCM audio was 1gb and the AC3 you made is 300mb then you go into DVD2SVCD and change the disc size from the standard 4.3ish gb to say 5gb. That way even though DVDSVCD will take the size of the PCM audio into the encode process it will not matter.

Then I author the entire thing with DVDMaestro or whatever you choice of a good DVD authoring software is and your done. It would be better if there was an automatic way but this works.

BTW its mostly porn companies that seem to suddenly be doing this, a few used to because of old tools, but now some are switching from standard DVD5s to DVD9s with PCM audio and no more content. Its obvious its to trip up fast all in one apps. Makes me glad I learned this the hard ways first, because I taught my cousin how to do his DVDs and its how this came to my attention he was stumped.

[Poppa_Meth]

ffmpeg gui doesn't have the problems BeSweet had with compliancy. same basic engine but FFMpeg fixed the problem a while back.

Edit:
According to Baldrick FFMpeg GUI DOES have the same problems as BeSweet, though I've never had the same problems with it myself. you may have to just try and see.