Auido problems please help

[[GSV]Benny]

Hello,

I am trying to get an XviD moive on to a DVD disk so i can watch it in my home DVD player.

Heres some information about the file from VirtualDub,



First problem i had was the movie was in 2 parts, so i used VirtualDub to join them together.
With the moive joined i could watch it fine in Windows Media Player with audio.

Now i followed a guide using TMPGEnc to convert it to MPEG 2 ready to burn to a DVD.

It took TMPGEnc 2 hours to covert the film, i opened the coverted MPEG 2 file in PowerDVD the video was fine but there was NO audio ??

I loaded up TMPGEnc again and noticed this,



There is no audio file

Why is this ? it useally adds the audio file automaticlly thats why i did not check it the first time round.

I tried adding the file i opened in the video option and got this error,



Can anyone tell me how to get audio on this moive file please

Thanks

[Tommyknocker]

Have Virtual Dub save it as a wave file, and load the wave file as audio input to TMPGEnc.

[teegee420]

Your avi's probably have ac3 audio. Instead of joining them, encode them seperately and have TMPGEnc output a m2v file only. Then use Virtualdub to extract the ac3 audio in your avi's(open one and go to file, select save wav, rename 3 ac3). Use the 2 m2v files and 2 ac3 files in your DVD authoring software.

[[GSV]Benny]

Have Virtual Dub save it as a wave file, and load the wave file as audio input to TMPGEnc.

I opened Virtual Dub, opened the moive that was join together.

Clicked on "File" then "Save WAV" and got this error,



Any ideas ?

Cheers

[teegee420]

The first thing you should do is use G-spot to determine the audio type. If it's ac3, install the AC3 ACM Decompressor, then try again with Vdub.

[Sakuya]

Your avi's probably have ac3 audio. Instead of joining them, encode them seperately and have TMPGEnc output a m2v file only. Then use Virtualdub to extract the ac3 audio in your avi's(open one and go to file, select save wav, rename 3 ac3). Use the 2 m2v files and 2 ac3 files in your DVD authoring software.

You said not to join them? If you input them as 2 titles when authoring, won't there be a pause between?

I find that VirtualDubMOD works better with AC3 files. Just load your AVI (s) with the AC3 files. Go to "Streams" and then "Stream List". Your audio should be there. Click on it and click "demux" and it would save as an AC3 file. It shouldn't take more than 1 minute and little more if you have a fast computer.

Now, I am having the EXACT situation only the outcome is weird. Please see my topic:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=216535

[[GSV]Benny]

The first thing you should do is use G-spot to determine the audio type. If it's ac3, install the AC3 ACM Decompressor, then try again with Vdub.

I have just come across this on the TMPGEnc website , http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tsp_ac3.html

Will that AC3 plugin do the job ?

Cheers

[teegee420]

All the ac3 plugin does is add ac3 encoding to TMPGEnc DVD Author. It doesn't add ac3 functionality to TMPGEnc Plus unfortunately.

[[GSV]Benny]

All the ac3 plugin does is add ac3 encoding to TMPGEnc DVD Author. It doesn't add ac3 functionality to TMPGEnc Plus unfortunately.

So its no use to me ?

Heres a screen shot from GSpot before the file is encoded to MPEG 2 with TMPGEnc,

[teegee420]

Benny]

All the ac3 plugin does is add ac3 encoding to TMPGEnc DVD Author. It doesn't add ac3 functionality to TMPGEnc Plus unfortunately.

So its no use to me ?

Correct. As for the G-spot info, your avi's do in fact have ac3 audio as I suspected. At this point you have two choices. You can either follow my suggestion and encode the two files seperately without audio and later add the ac3 audio in the authoring stage, or you can decompress the ac3 to wav with Virtualdub in conjunction with the AC3 ACM Decompressor. The choice is yours.

[[GSV]Benny]

All working fine now 8)

Thanks so much for all your help

[Sakuya]

Would you mind telling me how you made it work? Since I'm having the same problem, your solution might be different than mines.

[[GSV]Benny]

Would you mind telling me how you made it work? Since I'm having the same problem, your solution might be different than mines.

To sum up,

Join both parts of the moive together with VirtualDub.

Used VirtualDubMod to exctat the AC3 audio

Coverted it to a MPEG 2 with TMPGEnc (used to the 3:2 pull option as the file was 23fps)

Used TMPGEnc DVD Author to create the DVD, told the program to us the audio file i saved from VirtualDubMod and the video file i made with TMPGEnc.

Now its working fine

I used this guide here, https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/186739.php

Cheers

[Sakuya]

Thanks. I'll try that. Did you frameserve or saved it as another joined AVI?

[[GSV]Benny]

Thanks. I'll try that. Did you frameserve or saved it as another joined AVI?

I just join the 2 parts and saved it as a new moive.

[Sakuya]

I joined it and saved it too. I set the Video at "Direct Stream Copy" before saving as an AVI. Then I converted it and it still stops at the end of segment 1 when I play the DVD.

Maybe it's the authoring problem and my authoring program can't read such things?