audio on wrong track, .avi to DVD

[dnigrin]

I've searched diligently through the other posts, and have found some relevant stuff, but none that exactly match..

I am trying to convert an .avi into a DVD that is playable on a consumer cheapo DVD player.

I am using ffmpegX 0.0.9p, on a Mac G4 867 MHz running 10.3.5

The file I want to convert is (from the top line of ffmpegX):
VIDEO: mpeg4, 416x320, 23.98 fps. AUDIO: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 117 kb/s

I click the Quick Preset called "DVD mpeg2enc", and then uncheck the box in Options "Decode with Quicktime", per this thread (it didn't work at all until I did this step):
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=238039

When I encode that, I get an .img file that is mountable, and playable in DVD Player, except that the audio for the movie is on track 2.

So again per the previous thread listed above, I checked the "Set 3:2" box in Options, and tried again. This time I get the following error log:

Encoding started on Sun Oct 10 16:20:27 EDT 2004
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
Input #0, avi, from '/Users/dnigrin/Desktop/RescueHeros-TheMovie.avi':
Duration: 01:18:06.8, bitrate: 1253 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, 416x320, 23.98 fps
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 117 kb/s
Output #0, yuv4mpegpipe, to 'pipe:':
Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, yuv420p, 720x480, 23.98 fps, q=2-31, 200 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
++ WARN: [yuvscaler] Unknown stream tag encountered: 'C420mpeg2'
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: frame size: 720x480 pixels (518400 bytes)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: frame rate: 2997/125 fps (~23.976000)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: interlace: none/progressive
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: sample aspect ratio: 0:1
INFO: [yuvscaler] from 720x480, take 720x480+0+0, NOT_INTERLACED/PROGRESSIVE
INFO: [yuvscaler] scale to 720x360, 720x480 being displayed, NOT_INTERLACED/PROGRESSIVE
INFO: [yuvscaler] Scaling uses the BICUBIC algorithm,
INFO: [yuvscaler] without line switching
INFO: [yuvscaler] without time forwarding
INFO: [yuvscaler] Without luminance correction
INFO: [yuvscaler] Without chrominance correction
INFO: [yuvscaler] black lines: 60 above and 60 under
INFO: [yuvscaler] black columns: 0 left and 0 right
INFO: [yuvscaler] frame rate: 23.976 fps
INFO: [yuvscaler] Scaling ratio for width is 1 to 1
INFO: [yuvscaler] and is 4 to 3 for height
++ WARN: [mpeg2enc] Unknown stream tag encountered: 'C420mpeg2'
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Selecting DVD output profile
++ WARN: [mpeg2enc] 3:2 movie pulldown with frame rate set to decode rate not display rate
++ WARN: [mpeg2enc] 3:2 Setting frame rate code to display rate = 4 (29.970 fps)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Encoding MPEG-2 video to /Users/dnigrin/Desktop/RescueHeros-TheMovie.avi.ff.m2v
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Horizontal size: 720 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Vertical size: 480 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Aspect ratio code: 2 = 4:3 display
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame rate code: 4 = 30000.0/1001.0 (NTSC VIDEO)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Bitrate: 4000 KBit/s
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Quality factor: 3 (Quantisation = 3) (1=best, 31=worst)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Field order for input: none/progressive
INFO: [mpeg2enc] New Sequence every 9999 Mbytes
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming non-video stream of 0 Kbps
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Search radius: 16
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP SIZE RANGE 9 TO 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting colour/gamma parameters to "unspecified"
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Progressive format frames = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] 3:2 Pulldown selected frame decode rate = 23.976 fps
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Using default unmodified quantization matrices
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Buffering 39 frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: frame size: 720x480 pixels (518400 bytes)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: frame rate: 2997/125 fps (~23.976000)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: interlace: none/progressive
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: sample aspect ratio: 0:1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for QUANTIZER!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for MOTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for TRANSFORM!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING AltiVec for PREDICTION!
video:0kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead inf%
INFO: [yuvscaler] Couldn't read FRAME header: bad header magic!
**ERROR: [yuvscaler] Couldn't read frame number 112372!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Guesstimated final muxed size = 2157890914
Input #0, avi, from '/Users/dnigrin/Desktop/RescueHeros-TheMovie.avi':
Duration: 01:18:06.8, bitrate: 1253 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, 416x320, 23.98 fps
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 117 kb/s
Output #0, ac3, to '/Users/dnigrin/Desktop/RescueHeros-TheMovie.avi.ff.ac3':
Stream #0.0: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5:1, 448 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.1 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4721, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
built on Sep 2 2004 08:23:45, gcc: 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)
video:0kB audio:256312kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000000%
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.2 ($Date: 2003/05/13 20:27:15 $)
INFO: [mplex] File /Users/dnigrin/Desktop/RescueHeros-TheMovie.avi.ff.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [mplex] File /Users/dnigrin/Desktop/RescueHeros-TheMovie.avi.ff.ac3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
INFO: [mplex] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [mplex] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [mplex] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [mplex] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (/Users/dnigrin/Desktop/RescueHeros-TheMovie.avi.ff.m2v)
INFO: [mplex] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [mplex] Frame width : 720
INFO: [mplex] Frame height : 480
INFO: [mplex] Aspect ratio : 4:3 display
INFO: [mplex] Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 4000000 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [mplex] CSPF : 0
INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (/Users/dnigrin/Desktop/RescueHeros-TheMovie.avi.ff.ac3)
INFO: [mplex] AC3 frame size = 1792
INFO: [mplex] AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
INFO: [mplex] Bit rate : 57344 bytes/sec (448 kbit/sec)
INFO: [mplex] Frequency : 48000 Hz
INFO: [mplex] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [mplex] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 4526848
INFO: [mplex] target data-rate specified : 10080000
INFO: [mplex] Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
INFO: [mplex] Run-in Sectors = 89 Video delay = 13019 Audio delay = 14520
INFO: [mplex] New sequence commences...
INFO: [mplex] Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [mplex] Audio bd: buf= 16384 frame=000000 sector=00000000
++ WARN: [mplex] Discarding incomplete final frame AC3 stream 0!
INFO: [mplex] Scanned to end AU 112371
INFO: [mplex] STREAM e0 completed @ frame 112371.
INFO: [mplex] STREAM bd completed @ frame 146462.
INFO: [mplex] Multiplex completion at SCR=421802276.
INFO: [mplex] Video e0: buf= 182764 frame=112371 sector=01069584
INFO: [mplex] Audio bd: buf= 2048 frame=146462 sector=00130190
INFO: [mplex] VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
INFO: [mplex] Video Stream length: 2157890914 bytes
INFO: [mplex] Sequence headers: 7813
INFO: [mplex] Sequence ends : 1
INFO: [mplex] No. Pictures : 112371
INFO: [mplex] No. Groups : 7813
INFO: [mplex] No. I Frames : 7813 avg. size 31852 bytes
INFO: [mplex] No. P Frames : 30002 avg. size 22268 bytes
INFO: [mplex] No. B Frames : 74557 avg. size 16643 bytes
INFO: [mplex] Average bit-rate : 3683200 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] Peak bit-rate : 4272000 bits/sec
INFO: [mplex] BUFFERING min 15 Buf max 134306
INFO: [mplex] AUDIO_STATISTICS: bd
INFO: [mplex] Audio stream length 262461701 bytes.
INFO: [mplex] Syncwords : 146464
INFO: [mplex] Frames : 146464 padded
INFO: [mplex] Frames : 0 unpadded
INFO: [mplex] BUFFERING min 35 Buf max 1603
INFO: [mplex] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01
STAT: Processing /Users/dnigrin/Desktop/RescueHeros-TheMovie.avi.ff.mpg...
STAT: VOBU 16 at 3MB, 1 PGCS, 0:00:09
STAT: VOBU 32 at 7MB, 1 PGCS, 0:00:17
STAT: VOBU 48 at 12MB, 1 PGCS, 0:00:26

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Can someone please help??

Thanks in advance....

[major]

I'm not sure I understand your question.

[dnigrin]

Bottom line is that I cannot get the .avi converted to DVD with the audio on the first track, as it should be. When I tried the tip in the thread that I quoted, to set the 3:2 option, then the conversion failed.

What am I doing wrong, or what should I do differently to get the audio on the first track?

Thanks

[TugBoat]

That sounds pretty close to this;
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=242480
You might want to try Sizzle to author the streams to DVD.

[dnigrin]

Yeah, I saw that thread too - but I had no idea what all that stuff was about muxing, etc.., and so didn't know if it was relevant to what I was doing...

Thanks re: Sizzle, I may end up giving that a try in the end, though it would also be great to know if I was doing anything incorrectly in ffmpegX...

Thx.

[Wibbler]

Bottom line is that I cannot get the .avi converted to DVD with the audio on the first track, as it should be. When I tried the tip in the thread that I quoted, to set the 3:2 option, then the conversion failed.

What am I doing wrong, or what should I do differently to get the audio on the first track?

Thanks

I've done this my selecting 'decode with mplayer' and then select the audio track upder the audio prefs. Some avi's have worked fine with audio on track 1, but a couple have had audio on track 0..

[dnigrin]

Thanks Wibbler, I will give that a try.