Easiest way to use WAV as sound for VCD?

[mikewg]

I have a VCD that I've pulled the audio from and edited, and now is in a WAV format. What's the easiest way to put the WAV file back into the VCD as the soundtrack, without re-encoding the video? Do I need to convert the WAV to an MP2 file, and use TMPGEnc's MPEG Tools to "remux" them back together? If so, what's the easiest way to do that? Thanks!

[banjazzer]

Yes, that's exactly what you need to do.

And you need wav2mp:
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/wav2mp.html

[mikewg]

Thanks, I'll check it out when I get home tonight. Isn't there a way to do the conversion using TMPGEnc, without converting it into an MPG file and then pulling the audio from that?

[banjazzer]

Once you have extracted the audio as a wav, this is the easiest and best option. I'm not sure what you are asking here!

[adam]

You don't have to convert to mpg using banjazzer's method but yes you can just use TMPGenc to do everything.

In TMPGenc start a new project, File/new project.
Load your wav file in the audio space. Click setting and set your bitrate to 224 and your frequency to 44100kHz. Do the encode and you will now have an mp2 file.

Click file/mpeg tools/simple multiplex. Set the output to vcd, load your m1v video stream for video input and your mp2 file for audio and hit run.

[banjazzer]

Thanks for the info. I never realised TMPG could do that.

[RickNDE]

That is how I did it (as Adam stated). I followed the guide located on this site. I used VirtualDub to extract the WAV file. Then I used TMPGenc to encode (like Adam said).

It is encoding now, but when I hit preview I get perfect video with no sound. The WAV file works since I can play the sound (converted from VirtualDub).

[mikewg]

Thanks for the info adam, I knew there was an easy way to get that MP2 without another program and without creating a video-less MPG and ripping the audio from that...

I've already converted the video to VCD format, that's way I didn't want to reencode the video and lose more quality. But putting the audio back in is going to work perfectly, thanks for the advice.

Mike

[adam]

It is encoding now, but when I hit preview I get perfect video with no sound.

When you preview in TMPGenc you won't hear any sound. This is normal. Just wait til its done and test it then, hopefully it will turn out ok.

[mikewg]

When I open TMPGEnc and start a new project, and load the audio into the audio line and nothing in the video line, it still wants to create an MPG file. I renamed the final file as an MP2, but the conversion still took 40 minutes (on my P4 2000 w/ 512 RAM) for a two hour audio. End result gave me what the computer thought was an MP2, but had video and everything. Did I do something wrong when trying to just get the MP2 audio? Was it because I had the VCD standards applied, should I turn that off before converting WAV to MP2?

[DJRumpy]

TMPGenc is primarily a video encoding tool. The MPEG tools are just a bonus. The program is doing what it is intended to do. If your simply working with audio, and it's already extracted from your MPEG, then you would probably get faster, and better results, using an external editor, like BeSweet, TooLame, or HeadAc3he. You can even specify these in the environmental settings of TMPGenc if you prefer using TMPGenc for this. There is no way that I know of to force TMPGenc to only output audio.

[adam]

To the right of your video and audio input boxes there is a list of output streams. Here you can specify whether you output a program stream, mpg, or elementary streams such as m1v or mp2.

If you start a new project (file/new project) and and just load an audio stream and nothing else and do not load any templates then it will export an mp2 file. If you ever want to specify a single stream just load the unlock template from the extra dir and now you can change the output format on the right.

So you would set it to "audio only."