Audio problems with DVD Rip

[DVWannaB]

Gang,

Some help please. I just used DVD2AVI to rip main movie of The Green Mile. The audio is demux as a *.WAV and is 2.2GB. I tried to encode to MP2 in BeSweet and then TMPEG using TooLame. In both cases it would stop encoding after a second with no encode. I then tried to listen to the audio file, but Windows Media player gave me an error. I tried opening with Cool Edit, but it gave me an unrecognized error. What gives? What can I do now to encode this file to 44.1 MHz, 160 bitrate MP2 file?

[scottrempel]

Hi, I am also having trouble with the sound in this movie. Used CladDVD XP to rip and frameserve but the audio file created has no sound according to Tmpg. I did open this file with the Quicktime player and I could hear the sound just fine (WMP did not work for me either). What's up with TMPGEnc!?

[DVWannaB]

Fixed my problem. For some reason TMPEG cannot handle audio files (wave) over a certain size. My file was 2.2GB and 3 hours and 11 minutes in length. To overcome this I used DVD2AVI to create a project using only half of the movie *.VOB (in this case 4). The resulting audio file size was handled by TMPEG. I then created a second project using the remaining *.VOB files. After encoding I had the option of joining the two files with TMPG.

Hopefully that will work for anyone else having the same challenge. There apparently is an audio file size limit by TMPEG and BeSweet. Somewhere between 1.2GB and 2.2GB. Anyone know the answer?

[sterno]

I've never actually tested toolame/besweet for this, but a lot of programs have problems with files that are over 2GB (related to the use of 32-bit numbers, if you care). You should be able to work around it without splitting by telling DVD2AVI to demux the audio to an AC3 file instead and running that through besweet instead of a wav.

It might also work if you use "source range" in tmpgenc to split your encode, but I'm not sure. If the 2GB problem is only within toolame, it probably will work because tmpgenc creates a temporary wav file with just the range you specify. If tmpgenc itself also has a problem then it won't be able to create that temp file, though.

[MicoMan]

I have the same problem with my Wav file 2.74GB!

I used CladDVD XP which does the DVD2AVI frameserve thing as well.

Is there another way for me? A Wav cutter maybe? All programs I have tried just lock up?

[banjazzer]

It's a Windows problem. Windows cannot handle wav files over 2 GB. ***The answer is to demux rather than decode the audio from the DVD. Then you can use something like HeadAC3he to convert the .AC3 to .mp2. This can be muxed with the encoded video to produce your (S)VCD.


*** Generalisation alert, before adam arrives. This is true for Win98. I can't speak for XP or 2000.