What program can convert MPEG-2 to H.264+AC3 ?

[CorpX]

I'm trying to make an AVCHD from an MPEG-2 video capture.

I've tried TMPGENC and Mainconcept Reference and neither allows you to output to AC-3.

Any help?

[Dust Signs]

Encode the video separately and mux it into an appropriate container afterwards. MKV allows p.e. AC-3 audio tracks whereas MPEG-4 does not (as far as I know).

Dust Signs

[CorpX]

What container should I save the video to?

And what can I use to mux the video + .ac3 file? Can tsmuxer do this?

[Dust Signs]

Whatever container you prefer (of course it has to support H.264 and AC-3). As I said in my previous post you could use MKV. With mkvmerge GUI you have quite a handy application within mkvtoolnix to mux the files using a GUI.

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[nm]

What container should I save the video to?
If your final target is AVCHD structure, no intermediate container is necessary. Encode the video to H.264 elementary stream and encode the audio separately if it's not already AC-3. Then mux the video and audio streams to AVCHD with tsMuxeR.