tell me which format would suit me most.

[poisondeathray]

You can download a sample here, and avidemux doesn't seem to register the audio
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/panasonic/dmc_lx3-review/P1000032.MOV

as I said before, it's twos audio, mono. To make it compliant for dvd, you will have to convert to stereo and 48000KHz

You can download QTSource here, put the dll in the avisynth plugins folder.
http://www.tateu.net/software/dl.php?f=QTSource_Alpha

Make a text file, and rename the extension to .avs (change filenames and paths to match)

QTInput("file.MOV", audio=false)
vid=last

a=QTInput("file.MOV", audio=true)
MergeChannels(a,a)
SSRC(48000)
aud=last

AudioDub(vid,aud)

Open the .avs in virtualdub, and save as wav

Use that wav as input into avstodvd (I'm not familiar with avstodvd , but MrC said it would accept elementary stream). Note you could also use that script to encode using any encoder; if avstodvd accepts avs scripts, you could just use that .avs file and skip vdub altogether. This works for me, but I have QTPro installed on this PC. I think QT Alternative should work.

A2DAudioSource() should have worked with twos enabled in ffdshow. The only thing I can think of is you don't have a proper splitter installed on your system.

Cheers

[minidv2dvd]

vegas pro8c doesn't have any problem converting it to dvd spec mpeg-2. the sample i made with 192 kbps video looks bad, but it's because the bitrate is minuscule. it should be over 3 mbps for dvd.




lx3.mpg

[jagabo]

I was able to open the sample file directly in VirtualDub (with MOV/MP4 plugin) and save the audio as uncompressed PCM WAV. It came out as 16 KHz, 16 bit, mono. You can also use VirtualDub's built in audio conversion tool to change it to 48 KHz, 16 bit, stereo (the same mono audio on both tracks).