conversion output with tmpgenc results in no sound!

[bobdole]

Ok i have a xvid movie that needs to be converted im using tmpgenc and never had a problem except for this one movie, when i convert to dvd format i get no sound whats so ever! the xvid movie has sound fine so im wondering what am i doing wrong? please help thanks!

[redwudz]

Drop the Xvid into Gspot 2.60 and post a screenshot. Blank out the title if you like. I'm guessing a out of spec audio file. Check also for MP3 VBR audio. TMPGEnc chokes on that.

And welcome to our forums.

[bobdole]

heres a sn, i have no clue whats going on though..seems to be reading the audio but tmpgenc isnt..


ss.bmp

[bobdole]

even more screen shots of tmpgenc

more.bmp

[redwudz]

OK, AC3 5.1 audio. Since that's already DVD compliant, you don't need to re-encode it anyway. Just encode the video and add the AC3 back in when you author to DVD format.

If your authoring program can't handle 5.1, you could save it out as a WAV in VirtualDub and either use that to encode along with the video in TMPGEnc or convert it to 2 channel AC3 with a program like ffmpeggui. 5.1 is a little unusual to see in a Xvid.

[bobdole]

Much thanks for your help ill definately give this a shot and let you know what happens! again thank you very much!

[bobdole]

hey REDWUDZ, just thought to let you know that i used ffmpeggui to cnovert the movies audio to mp2 where i converted the movie both together with tmpgenc and am now watching it on tv..THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

[mats.hogberg]

h cnovert the movies audio to mp2

Even if you found a way to convert 5.1 AC3 to MP2 (which TMPGEnc also can with the help of AC3 ACM codec IIRC) you really have degraded audio experience (if you have a 5.1 audio system) quite some. If the nice persons creating an AVI bother to put in 5.1 audio, you really should honor them by keeping it even if you convert it to DVD.

/Mats