Xvid - ac3 movie - can't convert or split stream ??

[kintwerp]

Hi,

I have an avi movie which plays perfectly under windows media player. I want to convert it so that I can burn it onto DVD. I am not a total newb at this stuff, I've burnt several working DVDs before. I have tried converting using tmpgenc with the avi as both audio and video source. Tmpgenc complains that the audio source is unsupported or cannot be opened. The audio is, I beleive ac3 5 channel stereo. I have tried splitting the streams with virtualdub (and tried save as wav) but to no avail. This is what VirtualDub reports on the avi file:

Video Stream:
Frame Size 640x272, 23.976 fps (41708ms)
# of frames 99663(1:09:16)
Decompressor Xvid MPEG-4 Codec
Key Frames 979
Min/avg/max/tot key frame size 1900/17839/61553(17056K)
Min/avg/max/tot delta frame size 96/4853/39966(467758K)

Audio Stream:
Sampling rate 48000HZ
Channels 5(Stereo)
Sample Precision 0-bit
Compression Unknown (tag 2000)
Preload Skew 28000 samples (0.58s)
# of frames 99653
Min/avg/max/total frame size 28/2335/28000(227322K)

Can anyone suggest what I could try next ? Or does say tmpgenc have an ac3 plugin that i havent got ??

Any help very much appreciated peeps,

Kinny.

[bugster]

export the audio with vdub using direct stream copy. rename the file as movie.ac3. From here on you have several choices.

If you want stereo, convert your .ac3 file to .wav with HeadAc3he. Encode as usual.

If you want to keep the ac3 audio, encode your avi with TmpGenc, video only. You can the multiplex the ac3 qnd video (.m2v) files with TmpGenc, or leave seperate depending on you authoring package.


BTW, even doing this can cause encoding problems in TmpGenc if your source is xvid. There is a guide somewher on this site on how to overcome this using frameserving.

[Craig Tucker]

This may also help.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=128700