merging avi and ac3 files together to get an mpeg..

[dandandaniel]

hey im fairly new to conversion and stuff and im having trouble...i have an avi file without any sound and an ac3 file which is the sound file that a friend stripped from the avi file...how can i merge the avi with the ac3 audio file and make an mpeg-1 to burn as vcd..please help me

[mats.hogberg]

Decode the AC3 to wav. HeadAC3he can do this. Then use TMPGEnc, VCD template. Use the AVI as video source, and your wav as audio source.

/Mats

[FulciLives]

hey im fairly new to conversion and stuff and im having trouble...i have an avi file without any sound and an ac3 file which is the sound file that a friend stripped from the avi file...how can i merge the avi with the ac3 audio file and make an mpeg-1 to burn as vcd..please help me

You need to convert the AC-3 to another format. The VCD format uses MP2 audio. You need to use a program that will convert the AC-3 to MP2. The two most popular choices are BeSweet and HeadAC3he.

For the video you need an MPEG-2 encoder. The most popular is TMPGEnc because it has a free trial period when you download it and when you decide to buy it the price is very decent (something like $60 USD as I recall). In fact the downloaded "demo" version will work without ever registering it if all you ever do is MPEG-1/VCD stuff. You will only need to register it (buy it) for doing MPEG-2 such as SVCD and/or DVD encoding.

Look at the following guides located on this website:

https://www.videohelp.com/tmpgenc.htm

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/91588.php

https://www.videohelp.com/tmpgenc.htm#ac3

You will find that there are many usefull guides on this website which will cover most of what it is you are trying to do.

This website is great but a second opinion is always a good thing so you might also want to take a look at the following website:

http://www.doom9.org/

Good Luck!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[dandandaniel]

hey..

i tried using tmpeg encoder but it was all distorted and didnt encode properly.. are there any other ways to do this...i found a demo of a program called LSX MPEG Encoder and worked after i used virtual dubb to merge the audio and video files... but now i need to convert them to mpeg and the demo of lsx mpeg encoder only encodes for 60 seconds of video...

im still in need of help...

daniel

[BJ_M]

TMPGEnc is your best bet (and some of the best quality)


see the instructions above and the guides to the left .

[ZippyP.]

i tried using tmpeg encoder but it was all distorted and didnt encode properly..

You must have done something wrong or your source file is corrupt. TMPGEnc is one of the more popular encoders and gives great quality. Also, it is one of the easier ones to use. Did you follow one of the guides? Pick one in the Guides section and follow it closely, you shouldn't have any problems.

Other encoders are Mainconcept and Cinemacraft (CCE), look in the Tools section under video encoders.

[FulciLives]

Try this ...

Convert the AC-3 audio file to a WAV audio file. This can be done with BeSweet or HeadAC3he.

Then use the WIZARD MODE in TMPGEnc and select the correct template (I suggust the 29.97 NTSC for NTSC VCD or the PAL VCD template for PAL).

Load the video and the new WAV source and off you go.

It ain't that hard ... remember the guides I linked too?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman