Need help with audio decompressor

[twen]

Have an avi file that I can play with Dvix player. Try to convert to mpg with TMPGEnc but can't open the file and crashes TMPGEnc. VDub can't save to wav file says can't find decompressor.

GSpot shows audio format as ac3 (0x2000) Dolby Laboratories, Inc., which shows 2 compatible codes installed (that's why I can play it). Anyone know how and what decompressor I need to install so TMPGEnc will work?

[Hyway]

i would try avi2vcd it has a decompressor i have used many time to covert divx avi's with compressed audio files to a new useable avi. dont have a link but i sure ull find it, good luck, been there done that it sux

[fritzi93]

What Hyway said. I've used TMPGenc a good deal, and it always worked MUCH better by decompressing the audio separately, and yes, the decompressor in AVI2VCD works just fine. Or whatever app will do the job, just do it first. If you have an old machine that is already strained a bit by running TMPGenc, it's likely your machine will freeze up, just as described.

[ZippyP.]

I usually extract the audio to a wav file with Goldwave and use that as the audio input for TMPGEnc. Just load your avi into Goldwave then save.

[twen]

I've been doing these kind of stuff for 3 years and am familiar with most softwares, but this is the first I've encountered that I can't get a audio decompressor to use with TMPGEnc, VDub, DVD2AVI. But I finally got it to work and converted with Canopus ProCoder without any problem at all. Still wondering which decompressor that I'm lacking of though since I can play it with PowerDVD, Quicktime, RealPlayer and WMP. Divx player used to play video only, after I downloaded bunch of ac3codec, filter, tool, etc. now it gives me green screen but with audio.

BeSweet was able to save wav file, but when I brought it into TMPGEnc as audio source it still encoded to mpg without audio. Go figure.

BTW: AMD Athlon XP2500, Gigabyte 7VAX, GeForce 4 MX440, 333FSB, 512MB DDR... I think I'm OK there...