Help a complete moron out with AC3 > mp3.

[Agent86]

Okay, situation:

-One DVD I ripped and broke up into two chunks, each 700mb with AC3 audio.

-I want to put the movie on my Creative Zen as one file, but it doesn't support AC3.


I need to do the following with VirtualDub:

-Merge the two avi files into one avi (using whatever compression settings leave me with a ~700mb filesize without too much blocking/artifacting).

-Change the audio from AC3 to two-channel, 128kbps mp3.


I assume I'm missing a plugin someplace or something. Experimenting with audio conversion gives me a "no audio decompressor could be found to decompress the source audio format" message.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me I don't need to use AVIsynth. I'll be doing a lot of this and I don't want to write a script every time and hope I did it correctly and all that.


Thanks in advance.

[CWR03]

You would have a much easier time of it if you just re-rip the DVD into one single 700MB file with MP3 audio. Anything else you do will result in much lower quality and will end up being more work.

[Agent86]

I'm aware, but I wouldn't be asking if I still had the DVD available. I haven't seen it in years.

[Guest]

I'm aware, but I wouldn't be asking if I still had the DVD available. I haven't seen it in years.

I'll be doing a lot of this and I don't want to write a script every time and hope I did it correctly and all that. You lost all your DVDs?

[Agent86]

Haha, of course not (and I get the implication, which is downloading stuff).

I mean I'll probably be doing a bunch of AC3 to mp3 conversion because a ton of the videos on my computer are AC3. That's always how I encoded DVD-Rs I used for recording TV shows prior to when I got the Creative Zen and realized it couldn't handle that format.

Seriously, if anybody knows how to do that, it'd be very helpful. I'm of the scum-of-the-earth "I need a GUI for everything" video-encoding crowd.

[Guest]

Ha ha. Try this:

http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/AC3ACM/index.html