ac3 joiner

[divvy_1]

hello everybody , i was just wondering if there is such a thing as a program that joins ac3 files . if so please could you let me know what it is called . the reason you wonder ? i have a film in 3 parts with ac3 sound and i can save the video and audio seperately and can create 1 video from the saved mv2 files . now i want to put the audio back and need to create 1 audio file to use in tmpgenc dvd author ,please help .

thx in advanced

[mats.hogberg]

AC3 files are headerless, so they can simply be concatenated:

Copy file1.ac3+file2.ac3+file3.ac3 allfiles.ac3

/Mats

[muskgrave]

WOW!
Had to look that one up!
con·cat·e·nate (v) -
1) To connect or link in a series or chain.
2) Computer Science. To arrange (strings of characters) into a chained list.

[BJ_M]

that tip looks familier \

yes - that works ussually , all parts should be the same though in terms of settings and bit rate

[trossin]

Copy file1.ac3+file2.ac3+file3.ac3 allfiles.ac3

or on unix:

cat file1.ac3 file2.ac3 file3.ac3 > allfiles.ac3

I'll have to try this for VOBs as I believe that I heard that VOBs are split into 1 Gbyte chunks for simple DVD OS handling and that one could simply cat them togeter to create one large VOB. Then, if all goes well, the large VOB could be demultiplexed to get one mpv file and one ac3 file without lots of sub steps.

[bigb_y2g]

Or an easier way for the DOS challenged like myself, get a program called VOB Merge. It's free! It's called VOB Merge, but it actually joins all types of file types including vob, m2v, ac3, etc.

You can find it here:
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/vobmerge.html

[DiablosuX102]

i have a film in 3 parts with ac3 sound and i can save the video and audio seperately and can create 1 video from the saved mv2 files .

haha, i'll bet i can guess what that film is (cough)bittorrent(cough) i could be wrong...