Joining Files in BeSweet

[farmer dan]

Before I ask my question, please allow me a slight digression. Congratulations to Doom9 and all the moderators for designing this forum and its policies. The most insightful and possibly the most frustrating :D is the five-day-wait-to-post. During my "paitent" waiting, I found all the answers to my "newbie" questions. Now I am able to ask an informed :eek: question. I'm looking forward to this association with you all.

Now to the point:

I am trying to join two ac3 files in BeSweet using its GUI. As you can see in the following log file, there was a problem in opening one of the ac3's. I have "fixed" it in BeSplit and have played it in WinAmp and Creative Player. I don't know if this situation is currently "operator error" or not. Thanks in advance.

List File:

e:\Movies\Intermission Theme.ac3
e:\Movies\TT Intro Theme.ac3



BeSweet command line:

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\AUDIO CODING\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "e:\Movies\List.lst" -output "e:\Movies\ac3test.ac3" -logfilea "C:\PROGRAM FILES\AUDIO CODING\BeSweet.log" ) -azid( -c normal -g 0.95 -L -3db ) -ac3enc( -b 384 -6ch )

Log File:

BeSweet v1.5b21 by DSPguru.
--------------------------
Using VOBInput.dll v1.3 by DVD2SVCD (http://www.dvd2svcd.org)
Using hip.dll v1.19 by Myers Carpenter <myers@users.sf.net>
Using azid.dll v1.8 (b825) by Midas (midas@egon.gyaloglo.hu).
Using AC3enc.dll v0.1 by Gerard Lantau & Dg (http://ffmpeg.org).

Logging start : 09/20/03 , 08:57:09.

C:\PROGRAM FILES\AUDIO CODING\BeSweet.exe -core( -input e:\Movies\List.lst -output e:\Movies\ac3test.ac3 -logfilea C:\PROGRAM FILES\AUDIO CODING\BeSweet.log ) -azid( -c normal -g 0.95 -L -3db ) -ac3enc( -b 384 -6ch )

[00:00:00:000] +------- BeSweet -----
Error 57: Error opening "e:\Movies\Intermission".
Quiting...
[00:00:00:000] Conversion Completed !

Logging ends : 09/20/03 , 08:57:09.

In reviewing what I wrote, "-ac3enc ( -b 384 -6ch)" caught my eye. I will, on the chance that this is the problem investigate and see if this changes things. If it does I will post. If it doesn't, I eagerly await any help.

[killingspree]

hi and welcome to the forum,
before i come to my answer, allow me to express my delight about this post. it is very nice to see that a new member has done his homework, followed all the rules aswell as a lot of the instructions/hints that are scattered all over the forum. I can guarantee you that you'll have a nice and *very* informative stay here if you continue with this great attitude.

now to your problem:
honestly i did not find an obvious flaw in your process, neither can I repoduce the problem. what has cought my eye though are those two lines:

List File:
e:\Movies\Intermission Theme.ac3Error 57: Error opening "e:\Movies\Intermission".

as you can see, in the log file it just mentions Intermission". so my guess is, that there is a simple filename problem. You can easily check this by just renaming your ac3 files to a name that does *not* contain any spaces.

hope this helps
steVe

[farmer dan]

SteVe--

Thanks for the compliment on my post. I appreciate it. Around the office when people ask me "How do I ...," my first response is, "What does the 'Help' say. I understand. About my question--

Couldn't "see the forest for the trees."


as you can see, in the log file it just mentions Intermission". so my guess is, that there is a simple filename problem. You can easily check this by just renaming your ac3 files to a name that does *not* contain any spaces.

Making this correction got BeSweet to work--the first time for me. That's the good news. There is something wrong in my set-up because the resultant file was "expletive deleted." I haven't tried the sample rate thing yet, but at least I know that I can manipulate BeSweet. The resultant log, which was 3K, had entries like:

[00:00:33.744] W7: Downmix overflow (0: +18.4dB)
[00:00:33.749] W7: Downmix overflow (0: +15.8dB)
[00:00:33.754] W7: Downmix overflow (0: +16.5dB)
[00:00:33.760] W7: Downmix overflow (0: +16.9dB)
[00:00:33.765] W7: Downmix overflow (0: +18.1dB)
[00:00:33.770] W7: Downmix overflow (1: +14.9dB)
[00:00:33.776] W7: Downmix overflow (1: +18.1dB)
[00:00:33.781] W7: Downmix overflow (1: +11.9dB)
[00:00:33.786] W7: Downmix overflow (0: +18.7dB)
[00:00:33.792] W7: Downmix overflow (0: +19.1dB

This is what clues me about my set-up. I could just barely hear the music under the static. I'll post when I'm successful.

Thanks again.

[farmer dan]

From my original post:

"-ac3enc ( -b 384 -6ch)" caught my eye.

I set -b 256 and then -b 320. Both worked great. 320 sounded better. I hear some "clipping" but that's just something else I'll have to learn.

As Sgt. Preston of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police used to say:

"King, this case is closed." Did I just date myself? :scared:

Thanks again. I'll be back.

[killingspree]

good to hear you were able to work it out :)