Problem importing mpg into SpruceUp

[lemmy999]

I am trying to make a DVD in Spruce with the same 5 minute clip muxed 3 different ways to see if there is any difference in audio sync. This is originally a raw AVI captured with Vdub. I export the WAV file and used softencode to convert to AC3 2.0 (BeSweet AC3 files are always silent for me). I encode just the video file in TMPGENc to a 720x480 VBR 4800kbps 29.97 fps .m2v file. I am re-muxing with TMPGENc (Clip1.mpg) and bbmpeg (Clip2.mpg). I am also going to import the video and audio seperately into Spruceup. When I import the video and audio seperately (clip3.m2v & clip3.ace) all is fine. However when I import either Clip1.mpg or Clip2.mpg, Spruceup goes through the parsing operation just fine but when it finishes the video is not in the bar on the left like it should be. There is no error or anything. Also, all of the .PRA and .PRV files are created.

A side note is that when I muxed in bbmpeg, I had selected the "DVD" and SpruceUp would not import this. Said there was an "Error in the System Header" at the beginning of the parsing operation. I went back and muxed again but selected MPEG2 and SpruceUp takes the result with no errors, but as I said above, it doesn't show up in the bar on the left.

Thanks for any suggestions.

[lemmy999]

Actually, I have noticed that when I import the .m2v and .ac3 seperately, SpruceUp creates a .PRA and a .PRV file, but for the muxed .mpg file it creates .PRA, .PRA.PRX, .PRV, .PRV.PRX files.

[wulf109]

SpruceUp like most authoring programs prefers separate video and audio streams. Stop remuxing and if you must DON"T use Bbmep,use TMPEG to remux. Spruce will accept audio as ac3,mpa(mp2),and PCM(wav).