Why is VirtualDubMod cropping my audio?!?!

[kubozuka27]

I'm not exactly a newbie...I've been making DVDs and VCDs successfully for a couple of years. But ever since I reinstalled my OS, I seem to keep hitting problems!

Now, I'm trying to get audio converted to AC3, but I can't get past the WAV stage. I have numerous XVIDs with VBR MP3 audio. They all run about 40-45 minutes in length. But when I save the WAV, I get a file that's between 10:40 and 10:45 in time!

Of course, I'm using Full Processing mode, no compression, and 48khz sampling rate. I've done this hundreds of times, so why does it not work anymore? Is there a setting I've forgotten about somewhere? ^^;

[mats.hogberg]

Don't know the source of your problem, but a workaround (that I always use, since I don't trust a video editor with audio conversions!) - extract audio direct stream instead of full processing, then convert with the correct ???-to-wav converter (like CDEx for MP3).

/Mats

[kubozuka27]

Well then...

If I'm going to do direct stream, and I'm planning to use BeSweet to convert to AC3, then do I need to bother changing it into a WAV first? BeSweet is supposed to be able to handle mp3s also....

[mats.hogberg]

If that's so - No, you don't. I use ffmpeggui to create AC3 with wav as input, so I always convert to wav "by hand".

/Mats