How do I get the best quality audio?

[guitar_george_skank]

To rip my DVD's i use smartripper, followed by DVD2AVI to extract the audio to a .wav file and make the .d2v file. DVD2AVI is set to decode and downmix the dolby. I then encode with tMPGenc 2.56 plus at 224kbs but use SSRC as an external prog to convert from 48K to 44.1K. When I have a divx movie I use VirtualDub to extract the uncompressed wave without any conversion as I let tMPGenc (using SSRC) handle that. I was wondering what other people do to get the best quality? What about using BeSweet? (Athough I've never used it before). I know there are so many different methods out there and that I'm probably using good methods already but the quest for quality never ends! Any help is greatly appreciated. I can't believe how much I've learned already in only two months. What a site!

The 2 options I think give the best audio are:

1)Be-sweet

2)Headach3e

You cant go wrong using either of these as they are both excellent.!

I use mostly Headach3e as the GUI is very simple and well layed out.
I use DVD2AVI only to de-mux the aC3 stream.

Video encoding and Audio encoding I always do seperately then MUX together with BBmpeg.

Never have I had a synch problem with the audio.

Cheers

[bilbo1988]

When i use DVD2AVI to extract the .wav and .d2v files, I make sure that Normalization is checked in the Audio menu. I did not use this when I first started doing this, but now I can tell the difference. Before the audio was low, now the audio level is better and clear.

[guitar_george_skank]

bilbo1988: Thanks, i'll try the normalisation thing.

d_head: I'm guessing that if I set DVD2AVI to just de-mux instead of decode i'll get a file that i can use in headach3e or BeSweet? When you say you process the video and audio seperately do you mean that the de-muxed file gets done with say headach3e, tMPGenc takes care of the video and then you "mux" (is that the right term?) them together in BBmpeg? Will this work for XVCD's? Thanks for your time.

I'm guessing that if I set DVD2AVI to just de-mux instead of decode i'll get a file that i can use in headach3e or BeSweet? When you say you process the video and audio seperately do you mean that the de-muxed file gets done with say headach3e, tMPGenc takes care of the video and then you "mux" (is that the right term?) them together in BBmpeg? Will this work for XVCD's? Thanks for your time

exactly

Tmpgenc to encode the Video (using the project ,d2v file from DVD2AVI)

Headach3e to convert the *.ac3 file to *.mp2

Then mux(miltiplex) together at the end with BBmpeg

This will work for all XVCD`s XSVCD`s VCD`s SVCD`s etc etc

cheers