Making Xvid with out attaching wav file?

[MGRip]

HI,

I'm making a movie & I want to use GK for compressing him into Xvid.
I have raw dv footage (and already installed Panasonic's DV codec) - how can I encode it into Xvid (or Divx) without attaching a wav sound. I mean how can I encode using the original (built-in) avi sound?

Thanks,
Mark.

[jggimi]

Most DV soundtracks are recorded on tape in Linear Pulse Code Modulation (Linear PCM), in either 12-bit or 16-bit stereo, at 48Khz or 44.1Khz. 12-bit is used if there are two stereo soundtracks.

Linear PCM on computers is .wav format, therefore .wav soundtracks are the "built-in" sound format from DV.

You can keep the soundtrack as-is in GK by selecting Just Mux, or you may compress the sound to .mp3 format if you wish.

[MGRip]

Thank you for your reply.
What I want to do is compress the sound too. But I want to do it in the GK without demuxing (separating the sound from the video into wav - if it called demuxing), just load video set compression to both sound & video without loading other audio.
I'm using 16bit (48khz).

Thanks,
Mark.

[jggimi]

GK doesn't work that way, as it was developed initially for DVD sources.

If you do not demux the soundtrack, there is no way that GK can account for the size of the soundtrack in your finished product, nor is there any way to transcode the audio, since that must be done outside of the .avi container.

If the DV .avi is Type-1, the sound in the .avi file is not available to GK at all. If the DV .avi is Type-2, the sound can be demuxed by VirtualDubMod.

When encoding from Type-2 in GK, if I recall correctly the soundtrack is actually retained in the interim _movie file, and then replaced by remuxing (either from the demuxed .wav or from a converted .mp3) in the final file. Should you select no audio track in GK and use a Type-2 .avi as source, the finished .avi will have the audio from the Type-2 .avi within it. If you did not demux the audio and then account for its size on the Bitrate tab, the size of the final .avi will be larger than calculated in GK by the soundtrack's size. This is not recommended.

For more information on managing DV, visit the DV forum.

[stephanV]

Perhaps it would be better to skip GK (perhaps still use the avs-file it creates) and do the encoding in VDub(Mod) manually. That way you can encode audio without having to demux it.

[jggimi]

The audio cannot be transcoded in VdubMod. All that application can do is allow you to either Save WAV or Demux.

[stephanV]

sorry, but that is completely wrong

in VDM go to streams --> streams list, right click on the stream, select "full processing mode", right-click again and select a compression

[MGRip]

Thank you guys :D

[jggimi]

Thanks for the correction, Stephan. That option is not intuitively obvious.

[stephanV]

perhaps not :)

i just have a tendency to right and left click everything i can get my mouse pointer on... sometimes it opens whole new worlds :)