Audio stream error message in TMPGEnc

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I've taken an .avi file, rewritten it with uncompressed .wav audio, and then used TMPGEnc to encode it to a .m2v and .wav stream.

I authored them with TMPGEng Author, but the .VOB's won't play in media player or Elecard MPEG2 player (although they play in virtualdubmod). I'm scared to waste any more dvd+r's until the .VOB's play in media player and I'm sure it will work.

Well, I then tried to take the .m2v and .wav and multiplex them into a mpeg file to see if that would play, but TMPGEnc wouldn't accept the .wav file, saying "Multiplexing linear PCM stream to system stream is not supported."

Any ideas?

Oh, and do .avi files have to be totally uncompressed before you can encode them to mpeg2? In other words, uncompressed video and audio?

-Jesse

[Eric Beaudoin]

I don't beleive you have to totaly uncompress them. I know that I go directly to MPEG-1 from AVI with TMPG and from what I read, the same thing applies to MPEG-2.

BTW, if you have PowerDVD (it probably apply to other software), you can try your compilation before burning it. With PowerDVD, you just select "Open DVD files from hard drive" as source.

If your files work properly with PowerDVD but not properly when you burn them, the problem is not with the transcoding part of the deal.

Hope that helps

[jakol]

correct me if im wrong, but it looks like you demux the avi. file then you got the .m2v video stream and you want to replace the audio with the wav. file you have?
you stated."Well, I then tried to take the .m2v and .wav and multiplex them into a mpeg file to see if that would play, but TMPGEnc wouldn't accept the .wav file, saying "Multiplexing linear PCM stream to system stream is not supported."

you can't multiplex wav with Tmpgenc. its not supported...you can do though is reencode the .m2v as your video source and wav. as your audio source to mpeg 2 file on Tmpgenc.
or take the long step, encode the wav file to mp2 ( for dvd authoring use 48 khz.) you can use besweet or Tmpgenc can do this. then you can multiplex it with your .m2v...to mpeg= then reencode your mpeg to dvd complient format.
i'm not sure if this will work though, i'm still learning it myself, but you can give it a try.

[cooljoe666]

Forget re-encoding the video..you have the m2v stream so keep it and change the audio. You can change the wav to AC3 and mux it with BBMPEG .

[johns0]

Dont even bother muxing,just import the m2v and wav,mp2 or ac3,which ever you want, into tmpgenc dvd author.

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Well, I did try using the .m2v and the .wav file in TMPGEnc Author, but the files won't play in Media Player (they have always played before when I do normal movies), so that makes me think they're not going to work.

Oh, and you can multiplex .m2v with .wav to make a mpg file with TMPGEnc. Someone suggested I try that to make sure my .m2v and .wav files are okay. That's when I got the error that is the subject of this thread.

-Jesse

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Okay, I converted the .wav to a .ac3 using BeSweet, and then tried to author. The VOB's played fine in Windows Media Player, and I'm 99% positive they will be fine once burned.

Thanks for the help, guys.

-Jesse

[johns0]

If the original avi file had ac3 audio file then it needs to be encoded to wav properly,if it is ac3 then it can be imported directly into tmpgenc dvd author without rencoding.

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The original audio was compressed mp3 in the .avi. I took the uncompressed .wav and converted it to .ac3 with BeSweet. I'm going to burn the files to DVD here in a little while to make sure it worked.

-Jesse

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Yep, converting the .wav audio to .ac3 corrected the problem. A burned DVD works just fine now.

That's strange that it wasn't letting me use uncompressed .wav audio on the DVD.

-Jesse