odd encoding question

[framerman]

I'm sorry if I have the wrong forum.

I probably wasn't supposed to do this, but I did it anyway. I am doing U571. After I stripped out everything I possibly could in ifoedit, I ended up with 4.39 GB's. So I'm thinking to myself, why waste all that time and reencode the video for just 20 mb's. I figured I could reencode the audio instead down to 384 from 448 and reauthor it back with the original m2v file. Worked great, but 1 catch. When I put it in my settop player, the time display is going nuts. I'm figuring that it has something to do with the audio time stamp. Has anyone successfully done this? Or is it impossible?

[destemido]

it may be in the way you did the audio.
by the way how did you do it???
i know a good audio tool. it's call besweet it is used in the Gordian Knot software pack. you know... for the divx movies!!
you could give that a try, as it extracts the audio tracks directly from the Vobs... even if you have to extract the audio to 6 .wav files and than re-encode them in one 6ch AC-3 with a chosen Bitrate.
as for the tool try searching doom9 site, prolly under audio tools.
if not search the web for it.. can't remember the site anymore.
but i think the guy how created that tools is a MOD here.
hope this helps...

[framerman]

Yeah, I used ac3machine which I believe is a GUI for BeSweet.

[destemido]

i think besweet has it's own GUI.
will look it up... now i'm curious.
:D

[destemido]

found it!!!
http://dspguru.doom9.org
but you are right... Ac3machine is a gui for besweet.
try the guide...
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/ac3machine.htm