TakuSkan
7th January 2006, 23:44
I've tried dozens of attempts to convert an VirtualDub video capture I made weeks ago to MPEG-2 DVD-Video format. It's been very frustrating as I can't get any approach to work.
My latest problem is with getting the Besweet v6.0 GUI to convert a .WAV made with TMPGEnc to an AC3 file with audio that will play back. I've tried 4-5 approaches, and none of the output files want to play in either Winamp or WMP.
Here's a brief history of this specific problem:
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* Ripped a TV show to an 320x240 AVI file using my old ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Rage capture card. (Have since upgraded to the PVR-150 with a 720x480 MPEG-2 hardware encoder.)
* The audio and video were out of sync, so I used YAAI AVIInfo to calculate a bitrate to re-sync the audio & video. Then I used TMPGEnc with a specificed CBR bitrate to create two properly synced M3U & WAV files for an NTSC DVD-Video.
* The audio quality of the WAV file TMPGEnc produced was terrible for some reason, and multiple approaches at creating a good one all failed. So I used VirtualDub to export a proper sounding WAV file to replace the one TMPGenc created. The idea being to then use those 2 files to generate a DVD-Video with TMPGEnc Author.
* TMPGEnc Author complained that the PCM WAV file VDub produced wasn't 'linear', and wouldn't accept it.
* To convert that VDub WAV to something TMPGEnc Author would accept, I downloaded and set up Besweet v1.4, BeSweetGUI v0.6, and BS_AC3 v0.1 AC3 encoder.
* I then followed this BeSweet guide on the VideoHelp.com website (http://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/129419.php) to convert VDub's WAV file to an AC3 audio file. I also tried the procedure on the WAV TMPEnc had created in it's M2V/WAV file output.
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But nither Winamp or Windows Media Player can play any audio in the resulting AC3 files. And when authoring a set of DVD-Video files with TMPGenc Author, there was no sound in the resulting video.
I've been down a lot of roads trying to get that old VDub AVI capture file onto a DVD I can play on a stand alone DVD player, all to no avail. I've used methods involving NeroVision Express, ULead DVD Workshop, TMPGEnc and a dozen little utilities from the Doom9 downloads... and I'm still stuggling.
I also tried using the BeLight GUI, applying as many of the procedures listed in the VideoHelp.com BeSweet GUI guide as I could. But the resulting AC3 files all have the same problem with no playable audio in the output AC3 files.
So I'm wondering of the problem somewhere in the BeSweet v1.4 files I've set up.
Any help figuring our what I'm doing wrong trying to get BeSweet GUI to convert this WAV to a playable AC3 file would be greatly appreciated.
Thx,
TS
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My latest problem is with getting the Besweet v6.0 GUI to convert a .WAV made with TMPGEnc to an AC3 file with audio that will play back. I've tried 4-5 approaches, and none of the output files want to play in either Winamp or WMP.
Here's a brief history of this specific problem:
-------------------------------------------
* Ripped a TV show to an 320x240 AVI file using my old ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Rage capture card. (Have since upgraded to the PVR-150 with a 720x480 MPEG-2 hardware encoder.)
* The audio and video were out of sync, so I used YAAI AVIInfo to calculate a bitrate to re-sync the audio & video. Then I used TMPGEnc with a specificed CBR bitrate to create two properly synced M3U & WAV files for an NTSC DVD-Video.
* The audio quality of the WAV file TMPGEnc produced was terrible for some reason, and multiple approaches at creating a good one all failed. So I used VirtualDub to export a proper sounding WAV file to replace the one TMPGenc created. The idea being to then use those 2 files to generate a DVD-Video with TMPGEnc Author.
* TMPGEnc Author complained that the PCM WAV file VDub produced wasn't 'linear', and wouldn't accept it.
* To convert that VDub WAV to something TMPGEnc Author would accept, I downloaded and set up Besweet v1.4, BeSweetGUI v0.6, and BS_AC3 v0.1 AC3 encoder.
* I then followed this BeSweet guide on the VideoHelp.com website (http://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/129419.php) to convert VDub's WAV file to an AC3 audio file. I also tried the procedure on the WAV TMPEnc had created in it's M2V/WAV file output.
-------------------------------------------
But nither Winamp or Windows Media Player can play any audio in the resulting AC3 files. And when authoring a set of DVD-Video files with TMPGenc Author, there was no sound in the resulting video.
I've been down a lot of roads trying to get that old VDub AVI capture file onto a DVD I can play on a stand alone DVD player, all to no avail. I've used methods involving NeroVision Express, ULead DVD Workshop, TMPGEnc and a dozen little utilities from the Doom9 downloads... and I'm still stuggling.
I also tried using the BeLight GUI, applying as many of the procedures listed in the VideoHelp.com BeSweet GUI guide as I could. But the resulting AC3 files all have the same problem with no playable audio in the output AC3 files.
So I'm wondering of the problem somewhere in the BeSweet v1.4 files I've set up.
Any help figuring our what I'm doing wrong trying to get BeSweet GUI to convert this WAV to a playable AC3 file would be greatly appreciated.
Thx,
TS
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[Taku Skan doesn't represent me, but is recogition of a Lakota sense of the sacred. (http://clients3.bannerview.com/~windwlfwmn/Color-me-Blue.htm)]
[My TakuSan avatar is a detail from a Dali painting that's provoked a few philoshopic questions. (http://www.esc.auckland.ac.nz/people/staff/rmel005/birth.html)]
[I do Zen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance) on a K75S (http://www.geocities.com/taku_skan/BMW/K75S.jpg)]