multiplex mpeg2 with a wav

[Lele-brz]

Hi all,
First of all I'm not sure this is the right place to ask, if not ignore it.

I use mplex tool to multiplex a video file with a audio file, this works for many cases but it fails on some files.
Is there another tool (for Windows, better if available by command line) that perform multiplexing of MPEG2?

thanks for any tips on that

bye

[Taurus]

There are quite few:
Imago Muxer, Bbmpeg, Tmpgenc,etc.
You know, wav is not a standard audio container for mpeg2.
Widely used are ac3 and mp2.
Sometimes there is not konform data in the wav container, like mp3, etc.
Any muxer will burk when this happens.
So make sure your waves are genuine uncompressed files within the specifications.

cheers

Taurus

[45tripp]

Well the question would be, what's different about the files that fail?

as far as I gather muxing pcm into an mpeg2 program stream is not a standard thing.
it should be in a vob.

So if you use authoring apps, you'll get more.

imago doesn't import wav.
tmpg depends on the version. later versions actually can mux pcm with mpeg2.
bbmpeg is old, complicated, also doesn't offer a commandline option and probably just can't do it.

gl

[Lele-brz]

thanks for answering,
the problem was that certain wav couldn't be mutiplexed with my tool. SO I did as you suggested and convert the wav to ac3 with ffmpeg, then the multiplexed with mplex worked fine.

bye and thanks again

[ronnylov]

If you multiplex to DVD format then it supports PCM audio. Many DVD authoring tools can import wav files.