Advise Req:edit audio on mpeg2 cap,then auth to DVD process

[EAO]

I did look in guides but couldn't find anything directly applying to my issue.

Been capping MPEG2 ST TNG to DVD from G4 (Dish). Then converting to DVD. Last night my wife told me she found the noise they use when running an ad over the episode annoying. It's the communicator noise. They do it twice an episode.

So not knowing what I was doing. I edited the episode into 5 segments. Two of which were very short - about 5 seconds - that included the communicator noise. I used TMPGenc Mpeg tools to demultiplex these two file segments into .mp2 and m2v.

Then I pulled the .mp2 file into Goldwave. Removed the offending noise (.5633 seconds long) Copied and pasted an equivalent length of background 'engine noise' into it's place. Saved it as a .wav.

I thought I could remultiplex using the.m2v and the .wav. TMPGenc refused to take the .wav file.

Went back into Goldwave but I did not see .mp2 as a save option. So I saved as .mp3. (1. Is there a way to save as .mp2 at the same bitrate as original file? Or a way to get TMPGenc to accept the .wav format?) Mpeg Tools allowed me to remultiplex with the.mp3 file.

Then I tried to combine the resulting 2 edited segments with the other 3 unedited episode segments using Video Redo. It balked at the different audio formats between segments.

It was very late when I was doing all this and I was tired.

As a last ditch effort I pulled all 5 pieces into TDA 1.6. It refused the .mp3 edited audio, but I still had the edited .wav audio which TDA accepted and reencoded.

This process worked (no sync issue), but I want to know if there is a faster or better way to process and/or recombine the segments.

For example it occurs to me that I can preview and locate the two offending segments then demultiplex the entire episode. And then combine them with TDA.

[gadgetguy]

For example it occurs to me that I can preview and locate the two offending segments then demultiplex the entire episode. And then combine them with TDA

I think this would probably be the "best" way, (if I can use that term).

[EAO]

Thanks.

Sorry about using 'best'

I did keep it out of the title .

In this case 'best'- for me - would mean fastest process that manages as little transcoding as possible and would cause the least amount of potential issues like A/V sych while ultimately getting the files authored to DVD.

[guns1inger]

I would have demuxed the audio as a single, full length file, changed the audio, encoded and remuxed. There is a much lower chance of sync issues if you don't cut the file up in the first place, and a lot less work in the end.