divx with ac3 sound to DVD

[NeoxDj]

I'm a newbie with ffmpeg, maybe you'll find my question stupid ...

I'd like to know if it's possible to convert a .avi file (DivX, size: 784x448, 25.000 fps, 2402 kbps. AUDIO: ac3, 48000Hz, 448 kbps) to a dvd (I think mpeg2 video....).
I want to see that divx in my standalone dvd player (in DVD format, no SCVD or VCD because I want to have dobly digital 5.1 sound).
The problem is that I want to get ac3 dolby digital audio, but seems there are some problems:

Encoding started on Thu Dec 11 10:33:01 CET 2003
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: frame size: 720x576 pixels (622080 bytes)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: frame rate: 25/1 fps (~25.000000)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: interlace: none/progressive
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: sample aspect ratio: 1:1
INFO: [yuvscaler] from 720x576, take 720x576+0+0, NOT_INTERLACED/PROGRESSIVE
INFO: [yuvscaler] scale to 720x576, 720x576 being displayed, NOT_INTERLACED/PROGRESSIVE
INFO: [yuvscaler] Scaling uses the RESAMPLE algorithm,
INFO: [yuvscaler] without line switching
INFO: [yuvscaler] without time forwarding
INFO: [yuvscaler] Without luminance correction
INFO: [yuvscaler] Without chrominance correction
INFO: [yuvscaler] frame rate: 25.000 fps
INFO: [yuvscaler] Scaling ratio for width is 1 to 1
INFO: [yuvscaler] and is 1 to 1 for height
INFO: [yuvscaler] Specific downscaling routing number 4
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: frame size: 720x576 pixels (622080 bytes)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: frame rate: 25/1 fps (~25.000000)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: interlace: none/progressive
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: sample aspect ratio: 1:1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Selecting DVD output profile
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming norm PAL
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Encoding MPEG-2 video to /Users/neox/Music/Downloads_Xnap/movie.m2v
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Horizontal size: 720 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Vertical size: 576 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Aspect ratio code: 2 = 4:3 display
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame rate code: 3 = 25.0 (PAL/SECAM VIDEO / converted FILM)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Bitrate: 4000 KBit/s
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Quality factor: 3 (Quantisation = 3) (1=best, 31=worst)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Field order for input: none/progressive
INFO: [mpeg2enc] New Sequence every 9999 Mbytes
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming non-video stream of 246 Kbps
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Search radius: 16
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP SIZE RANGE 9 TO 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting colour/gamma parameters to "PAL B/G"
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Progressive format frames = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Using default unmodified quantization matrices
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Buffering 39 frames
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for QUANTIZER!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for MOTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for TRANSFORM!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for PREDICTION!
INFO: [yuvscaler] End of stream!
INFO: [yuvscaler] Normal exit: end of stream with frame number 804!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Guesstimated final muxed size = 15509048
error: could not convert audio track!
**ERROR: EOF in WAV header
**ERROR: failure reading WAV file
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.2 ($Date: 2003/05/13 20:27:15 $)
INFO: [mplex] File /Users/neox/Music/Downloads_Xnap/movie.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
**ERROR: [mplex] Unable to open file /Users/neox/Music/Downloads_Xnap/movie.mp2 for reading.

Any suggestions? Thanks for helping

[major]

For now ffmpegX only supports mp2 sound in DVD encoding. Support for ac3 sound in DVD encoding will be added in later versions.

[ThufirHawat]

Actually the previous reply is somehow short and incomplete, even if it is our master poster.

What you can do is:

- use DivX Doctor to decompress the audio and save it;
- use FfmpegX by indicating that the input is your avi file and that the audio should be loaded from the dumped audio file (in the audio tab).

That's it! It works, I have done it.

Cheers,

ThufirHawat