i'm tired of guessing. How do i do this?

[thefinalprophecy]

Ok, so I have ripped a non-commecial dvd to my HD with DVDecryptor. I had it seperate the video/audio tracks, so that i get .m2v file and .vob (ac3 audio) file. I converted the audio to WAV for editing. I edited the audio accordingly, mixed it, but kept it at the EXACT SAME LENGTH so that it would still synchronize with the video track. Then I encoded it into MP3 format, since TMPGEnc didn't allow me to import a .WAV file into the multiplexer.


Now what i want to do is re-multiplex them back together. TMPGEnc 2.5 allows you to do this (looks simple), but after it is completed, the resulting MPEG2 file (.mpg) will not play in anything. Windows Media Player.. no. PowerDVD.. no. I have MPEG2 codecs.

Windows Media Player will get to the first frame but won't play the file. I can click at random parts on the bar and find specific frames, but still wont play. PowerDVD would just load it, make screeching noised, and then error-close on me.

I am really stumpped as to why this happened. I tried it several times too. Same result. Right now, I am using TMPGEnc to reencode the whole thing from scratch; by selecting the video file and the audio file seperately, and then reencoding them again. It says like 10 hrs. remaining. The video is 2hrs 4 min. long. I don't want to reencode it; i would like to keep the quality to a max. Thanks guys..


TFP.

[FulciLives]

An MPEG-2 video stream should be muxed with MP2 or AC-3 audio. Not PCM WAV and not MP3

Although I don't have a clue as to what it is you are trying to do ... it if very unclear with the editing of the audio (seperate from the video?) etc.

Perhaps if you gave us a clue as to what you are doing and what your final result will be etc. someone could offer more detailed help.

As for your audio ... if it is in MP3 format you can convert it to WAV using probably whatever program you used to edit the sound to begin with ... then you can convert the WAV to MP2 or AC-3 and mux with the M2V video file ... though if you intend to re-author (create a new DVD) then you don't need to mux before your DVD authoring stage.

But now I'm guessing as to your intentions.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[thefinalprophecy]

Basically, I was extracting the audio from a concert that was recorded with a video camera, and i was replacing the audio picked up by the camera with the audio from the soundboard. I synchronized it perfectly with Premiere's timeline, and exported it back to WAV.

What do you reccomend for converting back to AC3? Is TMPGEnc's MPEG Tools still ok to re-multiplex them back together?

[pyrohydra]

BeSweet or TMPGEnc's AC-3 plugin

[anzimike]

If you plan to burn to dvd you will need authering app. This will mux your audio and video streams together and output burnable files. TMPGEnc DVD Author can do this. It will accept your wav as input and, if you have the ac3 plug-in can convert to ac3 if space is an issue. I believe there is 30 day trial free but trial does not convert ac3. Hope this helps.

[thefinalprophecy]

I have the full version of TMPGEnc DVD Author. So you're saying that I can use the WAV and the m2v file straight into that? That'd be great if I could. Does it require that I re-encode to MPEG-2, or will it just multiplex the 2 files together?

[anzimike]

It should work fine. The only reason to reencode would be to decrease the size of the final size. Do you have the ac3 plug-in?

[anzimike]

By the way, m2v is already mpeg so no reencoding needed

[FulciLives]

I have the full version of TMPGEnc DVD Author. So you're saying that I can use the WAV and the m2v file straight into that? That'd be great if I could. Does it require that I re-encode to MPEG-2, or will it just multiplex the 2 files together?

Yes most DVD authoring programs will accept a separate M2V video and PCM WAV file.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[FOO]

so that i get .m2v file and .vob (ac3 audio) file

Anyone notice that VOB is not an audio file ?

[lordsmurf]

so that i get .m2v file and .vob (ac3 audio) file

Anyone notice that VOB is not an audio file ?

Decrypter cannot remove AC3 from a VOB. You need VOBEDIT and run the VOB in there to extract the AC3.

[thefinalprophecy]

I used TMPGEnc to de-multiplex (right term?) and i got the m2v file and the ac3 file. and also, TMPGEnc DVD Author wouldnt allow me to import any audio file, WAV or MP3. It would just take the m2v with no audio. I'm gonna look for that ac3 plugin for tmpgenc now.

[FulciLives]

I used TMPGEnc to de-multiplex (right term?) and i got the m2v file and the ac3 file. and also, TMPGEnc DVD Author wouldnt allow me to import any audio file, WAV or MP3. It would just take the m2v with no audio. I'm gonna look for that ac3 plugin for tmpgenc now.

Name the M2V and the WAV with the same filename. Such as:

myvideo.m2v
myvideo.wav

Make sure both are in the same folder on your HDD

When you import the m2v file into TMPGEnc DVD Author the audio file will also automatically be imported.

If not then your WAV file may not be DVD compliant.

For a PCM WAV file to be DVD compliant it must be 16-bit 48k Stereo PCM WAV

- John "FulciLives" Coleman