BeSweet - I am sure I am doing something wrong

[RUPowers]

I am trying to create a 5.1 AC3 wav. I have 6 mono files created with PPro. I downloaded BeSweet, BeSwet GUI v0.6, and the BS_ac3enc files. All of these files were unzipped to a directory: d:\Hold4

I used wordpad to create a txt file with the following lines:
d:\Hold4\F51_0.wav (also lines 4,1,2,3,5) I saved the txt file and then renamed the ext to .mux

In the GUI I used the upper left area to choose the .mux file (channels.mux) for the input; the output was created as channels.wav. In the upper right I choose DSPguru AC3 for DolbyDigital-CD

I click on MUX TO WAV and get a 1k wav file and the following log:
Error 59: Failed to sync to payload's start position : "d:\Hold4\channels.mux"BeSweet v1.4 by DSPguru.
--------------------------
Using hip.dll v1.13 by Myers Carpenter <myers@users.sf.net>
Using Shibatch.dll v0.2 by Naoki Shibata & DSPguru (shibatch.sourceforge.net).
Using AC3enc.dll v0.1 by Gerard Lantau & Dg (http://ffmpeg.org).

Logging start : 01/03/05 , 19:48:20.

D:\Hold4\BeSweet.exe -core( -input d:\Hold4\channels.mux -output d:\Hold4\channels.wav -ddwav -logfilea D:\hold4\BeSweet.log ) -profile( ~~~~~ Default Profile ~~~~~ )

[00:00:00:000] +------- BeSweet -----
[00:00:00:000] | Input : d:\Hold4\channels.mux
[00:00:00:000] | Output: d:\Hold4\channels.wav
[00:00:00:000] | Floating-Point Process: No
[00:00:00:000] +------ Shibatch -----
[00:00:00:000] | Source Sample-Rate: 48.0KHz
[00:00:00:000] | Dest. Sample-Rate: 44.1KHz
[00:00:00:000] | Attenuation : 0.0db
[00:00:00:000] +------- AC3ENC ------
[00:00:00:000] | Bitrate method : CBR
[00:00:00:000] | AC3 bitrate : 640
[00:00:00:000] | Channels Mode : 2.0
[00:00:00:000] | Error Protection: Yes
[00:00:00:000] +---------------------
[ 32] Conversion Completed !
[00:00:00:000] <-- Transcoding Duration
Logging ends : 01/03/05 , 19:48:20.


I am sure I am going something simply wrong. If anyone can help me out of this nightmare I would appreciate it. The end result I want is a surroudn file that I will pair up with a M2V video file abnd author a surround DVD with DVD-Lab Pro.

Thank You

RU

[Kurtnoise]

Hi and Welcome...;)

Try with the last beta BeSweet release (http://www.dspguru.doom9.net).

Another thing : can you post your mux file please ? To see how it is built.

[RUPowers]

I will try it with the beta this evening when I get home. I am at work and do not have the file with me, but I can tell you what I did.

I used Wordpad and created a .txt document with 6 lines:

d:\Hold4\F51_0.wav
d:\Hold4\F51_4.wav
d:\Hold4\F51_1.wav
d:\Hold4\F51_2.wav
d:\Hold4\F51_3.wav
d:\Hold4\F51_5.wav

I saved it as channels.txt and then in windows renamed the .txt to .mux

All 6 of those files are in d:\Hold4 and I doubled checked to make sure the file names matched.

I hope that helps. I was following a post that I saw on another forum (adobe forums) of another person who was struggling to create a 5.1 dolby file to use with a video dvd. (http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?7@30.CuG3dH8vBJQ.1@.3bb4645e/54

Thanks for your help!

RU

[RUPowers]

YAHOO!

Thank you very much Kurtnoise13. I switched to BeSweet Beta and GUI Bete (the ones your link led me to) and I was able to pull the audio into an AC3 file.

I used DVD-Lab Pro and was able to create a DVD. I threw it into my home system and it worked! I am excited.

Again, thank you very much!

RU