Audio compression,

[Brummee2000]

I've just ripped a Dvd and it's about 1 hour and 45 min's long but instead of it extracting to M2v and Ac3 like it alway's does it has extracted as a M2v and Wav??, The Wav is about 1 and a half gig so is there a way i ca compress the audio file down at all???, If so how, Thank's,

[dvd.master]

what did u rip it with??

do you need to reencode the movie??

[Brummee2000]

I used Smartripper which i use all the time, And they alway's come out as M2v's and Ac3's, The Dvd is a live Concert which is nearly 2 hours long, I have to compress the actual film which is about 5 gig big, That comes out as M2v but the Audio is Wav??, Any idea's, Thank's,

[wulf109]

Some DVD's,usually concerts do use PCM for the audio stream insdead of the normal ac3. PCM is uncompressed which makes fo very large audio files,typically one hour will eqaul a 1GB file. You can use Tmpeg to trancsode the audio to mp2 which is compatible with DVD and the mp2 file will be a fraction of the size of the PCM file,it will vary depeding on the bitrate you transcode it to. A two hour ac3 file is about 400MB's.

[KaoS]

I've just ripped a Dvd and it's about 1 hour and 45 min's long but instead of it extracting to M2v and Ac3 like it alway's does it has extracted as a M2v and Wav??, The Wav is about 1 and a half gig so is there a way i ca compress the audio file down at all???, If so how, Thank's,

You should be able to use a program like Spruce It to import that M2V file and it should import and mux the wav file with it. Just make sure both files have the same name (ie concert.m2v and concert.wav)

Then author the DVD and you should be fine