Audio-Question...

[hyperion]

Hey there

Have just ripped movie and ended up with a mpa file. Running it in Gknot and it wont encode it, why??

[dragoman]

What software did you use? What audio were you trying to get?

dragoman

[hyperion]

Sorry, I used Gknot, I have ripped with smartripper, And it is DVD2AVI who generated the .mpa audio file.

The video works fine, but there is no sound..

Cheers
Hyperion

[jggimi]

Follow Doom9's Gknot guide on demuxing ac3 audio from DVD2AVI. You then have your choices:

Leaving it in ac3 format if you have digital surround sound for your pc.

Letting GKnot transcode to mp3 using the default abr mp3 settings.

Using Doom9's recommended settings for abr mp3

Using any cbr, abr, or vbr settings your heart desires. Read WEF's help tab in Gknot if you want to go below 128kbps.

Have 2 audio tracks if you want -- and you use a player that support it.

[obelix]

I had a DVD recently (5th Element, german) which had one ac3 (surround) track and 2 mpa (stereo) tracks. You can make a wavefile from mpa using winamp's diskwriter plugin which gives you a wavefile. GKnot can use waves as input. Darksoul71 stated somewhere that lame can use mpas as input without conversion, but when you want to normalize or compress with GKnot you will have to convert to wave first.

^Obelix

edit: of course you can mux the mpa with nandub when you don't care about the size, which should be about half of an ac3.

[hyperion]

Hey .

Thanks for the response..
It's working now...

Sadly it is a little workaround, but I have only seen this in one movie.

So a suggestion of this getting in Gknot would be to overreact.??

Cheers
Hyperion

[obelix]

I would like to see that feature in GKnot, too. When I capture Video with my Bungee I get mpeg2-files which cannot be opened with Nandub directly. I treat them as DVD-Files the usual way (DVD2AIV -> GKnot -> VirtualDub/Nandub. Unfortunately DVD2AVI gives me MPAs, so I have to convert them manually first.