vcd with ac3(sorry but no good forum)

[qwerasolk]

Hi at all.I would know How I can do vcd with AC3 because my tmpgenc don't accept this audio format(i don't know why).
thank you thousand.

Sorry but it's my second question for me in this forum,and in the two time wich i write here I have never receive an answer
Sorry for my english I'm italian

[vitualis]

Sorry, but it is not possible.

Even if you actually muxed an AC3 audio stream with the video, it is exceedingly unlikely that it will work. FYI: many people have tried before to no avail.

Regards.

[davemcg37]

whenever i load up dvd2avi and select my movie vobs i always end up with an AC3 file for the audio. this happens by default. TMPGenc quite happily accepts this AC3 file for the encoding to vcd, dont know why- it just does!

[banjazzer]

How I can do vcd with AC3 because my tmpgenc don't accept this audio format

You can use a program to convert the AC3 to a wav, which TMPG will accept. One such program is HeadAC3he.

[banjazzer]

whenever i load up dvd2avi and select my movie vobs i always end up with an AC3 file for the audio. this happens by default.

If TMPG won't accept AC3 for any reason, the answer is to alter DVD2AVI's audio menu setting to decode rather than demux.

[Nelson37]

I'm curious as to what player he is using and why his VCD muxed with AC-3 actually works, assuming it does.

[banjazzer]

I don't think that was the intent of the question. My presumption is that he wants to create a VCD, but TMPG will not accept the AC3 audio he has.

[Nelson37]

for qwerasolk, you need an ac-3 codec installed, download a free one or install a current DVD software, that should work. But it won't produce a playable VCD, see below.

My other question was concerning Dave, SFAIK what he is doing should not work, at least in playback on a standalone.

[banjazzer]

Dave isn't saying this. He is saying that he can load AC3 into TMPG, which then gets converted into mpeg audio. The only person to mention playing VCD with AC3 audio is vitualis.

[Nelson37]

Well, he didn't specifically state that it plays, but he does indicate he is making a vcd with it, and why else would he be muxing it that way?

DAVEMCG37, do these files actually play and on what equipment?

[davemcg37]

nelson, yeah my vcd's play away nicely on my toshiba sd210e. when i load my vobs into dvd2avi, all i check on the audio is that track 1 is selected. i leave all the other settings alone. it selects the ac3 track, which i load into TMPGenc with no probs

[banjazzer]

My understanding is as follows:

qwerasolk can't encode his VCD because his TMPG won't accept AC3.

davemcg37 can encode using AC3 because his TMPG will accept AC3.

vitualis mistook the original question assuming he wanted AC3 audio on his VCD (hence the introduction of muxing).

Nelson37's post I don't understand at all!

[davemcg37]

confusing innit?

[Nelson37]

Sorry, I was thinking he was muxing the AC3 with video and playing it, didn't realize he is on the encoding step where it is converted to mpeg audio.

[dphirschler]

I have a Kansas concert on VCD and it has AC3 audio. It plays just fine. The problem was demuxing it. I wound up loading the mpg (audio and video) into Goldwave, then saving the wav. It worked like a charm. But Vdub wouldn't save the audio and TMPGenc would not demux it either. It was a real bugger.


Darryl

[banjazzer]

If you have a VCD with AC3 audio, you don't have a VCD! And what did it play just fine on, apart from your PC?

[dphirschler]

Actually, I never tried it on the pc. It plays just fine on my Pioneer and my Apex players. You are right, it may not be a true VCD to spec, but my player reports it as VCD. I would just like to know how they encoded it with ac3 audio.


Darryl

[banjazzer]

I learn something new every day.

[Nelson37]

How do you KNOW it is AC-3 audio, as opposed to Prologic? I ask because this is not supposed to work, if it is truly muxed with AC-3 audio you shouldn't hear anything. Was this a commercially produced disk?

[colbeck]

This is all very confusing. I too would like to know if it is possible to create a VCD or SVCD (or close to this) video but have AC3 audio and play it back on my Toshiba DVD player. I find the video quality of a SVCD fairly good but I don't like losing AC3 audio and only getting Dolby Pro. It sort of sounds like one of you managed to do this but I'm not sure from the Posts.

..Roger