TMPGEnc MPEG Editor + audio

[awaterhouse]

Hi,
I am probably going around this the wrong way and doing far too many steps... so if I am, feel free to laugh at me and point me in the right direction...

OK - I have some DVD which I have recorded from my Sky+ box - to DVD and they are finalised.

I have ripped a whole disc as one vob as I need to edit them - I used smartripper which is fine. When I load it into a player, it says there is only 15 seconds of video - I cannot fast forward but after 15 seconds the video carries on... anyway, thats by the by...

If I load this file into TMPGEnc MPEG Editor it still says there is only 15 seconds of video... and the images seem to agree...

I then go back to the MPEG Tools and demultiplex the file into seperate audio and video files - which when I play them in a player now says it has 24 minutes of video - EXCELLENT - this is right - but now when I load the file into MPEG tools, there is no audio...

If I go into source settings then I can select the audio track - which looks like an AC3 file - but I get an error message saying "...cannot open as an audio file"

Any ideas - am I really going through too many steps where a couple would suffice?

Cheers

[Abond]

I do not trust any more to TMPG MPEG tools.
There are other ways to do what you want to do. I assume that your editing is mainly cutting the parts of the recording.
VideoReDo seems to be very reliable programm for such kind of editing (though I do not use it).
Usually I am demultiplexing the streams using ReJig (DGIndex seems also to be good choice) and then edit it in cuttermaran.

[awaterhouse]

Hi.
I have read up about VideoReDo and the cutting seems to be a little hit and miss.

I also have the AC3 plug-in - which is installed, surely I should be able to load the sound file in as its in AC3...

[Abond]

I also have the AC3 plug-in - which is installed, surely I should be able to load the sound file in as its in AC3...
Yes, you should, but you cannot. I don't use mpeg tools any more exactly because of such failures. It simply doesn't work as it should.

[awaterhouse]

I managed a work around - I split the vob into sound and vision using the MPEG editors tools - then converted the AC3 to WAV using Beelight - OK, its an extra step but doesn't take too long!

[Abond]

You in fact loose the 5.1 sound - this is bad result IMO.