Compact Disc Audio to AC3

[VidJockey]

Hello,

I have an idea I am working on, but cannot find a straightforward solution for... I hope you guys can help!!!!

I have a full collection of CD's from my favorite band and I had converted all of the CD's to MP3's with the idea of burning them to CD-R for playback on my set top DVD player. However, after ripping some 30 CD's at 192 KB/s I quickly realized that all would not fit, of course!

My new idea is to convert all the files to AC3 2 channel at the same bitrate and burn them to DVD-R with Sonic Foundry (or Sony now) AC3 DVD Burner 1.0 (which is part of the 5.1 Surround Pack). This program, as I am sure most of you know, can import AC3 and burn them to DVD along with a stock graphic and filename. I believe this route will handle my entire collection (which weighs in at about 2.95 GB) and since my DVD player refused to read MP3's burned onto DVD-R, AC3 looks like the only compression option.

Here's my thing.... I know BeSweet is out there which could convert my MP3s to AC3s... but what I would prefer is a program that could convert directly from Audio CD to AC3. Or maybe a Windows Codec that a program like Easy CDDA Extractor could utilize. Does anyone know of a product like this??? I also would like to hear how you might approach something like this!

Thanks for your help.... I know you are the guys and gals to ask.

Jimmy

[Sifaga]

you might wanna try https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=539#539

or https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=476&howtoselect=3;6#476[/url]

[awlchu]

vidjockey,

I do this all the time. My steps are:

- Rip entire disk as a single wav using Goldwave (www.goldwave.com)
- up-sample from 44.1 khz to 48khz (Goldwave)
- convert to Dolby 2 channel using TMPGenc excellent AC3 encoder
- author the dvd using DVD-Lab and import the AC3 files

Not exactly a one step operation but it's not very complicated either. And I have been 100% successful with this process.

I also have used Editstudio to create video titles and pictures (sort of like a slideshow) to accompany the music. Works well for me.

[bani]

- convert to Dolby 2 channel using TMPGenc excellent AC3 encoder

tmpgenc has an ac3 encoder? where?

[tompika]

ffmpegGUI

[awlchu]

- convert to Dolby 2 channel using TMPGenc excellent AC3 encoder

tmpgenc has an ac3 encoder? where?

here:

http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tsp_ac3.html

use with or with DVD author!

[bani]

- convert to Dolby 2 channel using TMPGenc excellent AC3 encoder

tmpgenc has an ac3 encoder? where?

here:

http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tsp_ac3.html

use with or with DVD author!

ah, it's not part of tmpgenc mpeg encoder. it's part of tmpgenc dvd authoring program.

looks like it only transcodes mp2 to ac3, it wont do raw pcm to ac3 though... that might explain the cheap price, because the normal ac3 patent licenses are $150 alone...

[awlchu]

no,

I encoding PCM (WAV) right now as I'm responding to your post. It will only encode PCM (WAV header) to AC3.

[PhreakPhish]

-that program would be nice
- or if ffmpeg would do a list of mp3's or wav's at a time to convert instead of individually -