.mov to mpeg-1 - .mp2 audio converting as a seperate file

[QuarterSwede]

Hi all, I'm using OS X 10.4.8 and using FFmpegX to convert a .mov (or.dv) file to mpeg-1 with .mp2 audio. My problem is that when I convert the file I get two seperate ones in the end. One .mpg that's just video and one .mp2 that's just audio. All the research I've done is saying that FFmpegX is suppose to keep the audio in the .mpg (muxing?) by default. I haven't screwed with any settings other than audio bitrate and sampling rate. What I am doing wrong?

Ok, figured out a work around:

Original source .mov videos (3) -> iMovie HD (to edit) -> exported .dv file (same as mini DV cameras)

Exported .dv file -> FFmpegX (to convert to .mpg video and .mp2 audio) -> FFmpegX to mux (to join) .mpg video & .mp2 audio together -> Final .mpg file with both video and audio

*note: For some reason FFmpegX refused to export the .dv or edited .mov to .mpg with the audio intact. It would always separate the two and give me two files (which it still does). From what I understand it's suppose to automatically combine the two. So what I ended up doing was choosing every combination I could think of until I finally found out that it needs the .dv file as the source and if I put .mp2, 224 bitrate, 48,000Hz sampling rate it would finally give me a .mp2 file quicktime would accept and play. For some reason it wouldn't work with the .mov source file.

Hope this helps someone else.

[Baldrick]

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