OggMachine Not Making File

[H2600]

Okay, I've got an error to report, first a description of the problem:

I'm trying to encode an ac3 file to ogg using Ogg Machine, I've got all my settings like usual, but when I click "Give Me Ogg", the program box just flashes and creates a very small file (around 4K). I suspect this may be a problem with BeSweet handling really big files, becuase this is the first time this has ever happened to me and the file I'm trying to encode is 2.2 GB.

Now the log:
BeSweet v1.4RC7 by DSPguru.
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Using libVorbis.dll v1.0 ( Jul 19 2002 ) by John33 (www.inf.ufpr.br/~rja00).

Logging start : 08/12/02 , 23:41:01.

C:\Main\DVD Rippers\Audio\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe -core( -input F:\J.F.K\jfk AC3 T01 3_2ch 384Kbps 48KHz.ac3 -output F:\J.F.K\jfk AC3 T01 3_2ch 384Kbps 48KHz.ogg -logfile BeSweet.log ) -azid( -L -3db -g max -c light -s surround2 ) -ogg( -q 0.400 )

[00:00:00:000] +------- BeSweet -----
[00:00:00:000] | Input : F:\J.F.K\jfk AC3 T01 3_2ch 384Kbps 48KHz.ac3
[00:00:00:000] | Output: F:\J.F.K\jfk AC3 T01 3_2ch 384Kbps 48KHz.ogg
[00:00:00:000] | Floating-Point Process: Yes
[00:00:00:000] | Overall Track Gain: 1.$dB
[00:00:00:000] | Source Sample-Rate: 48.0KHz
[00:00:00:000] +-------- OGG --------
[00:00:00:000] | VBR Quality : 0.400
[00:00:00:000] +---------------------
[ 4411] Conversion Completed !
[00:00:00:000] <-- Transcoding Duration
Logging ends : 08/12/02 , 23:41:01.


I would really appreciate any information anyone has regarding this problem.

[H2600]

I think this deserves the attention of DSPGuru, if it actually is an error related to filesize as i suspect.

[DSPguru]

it seem like BeSweet doesn't consider the AC3 input as AC3 file, but as WAV file.
could you think of a reason why ?

[H2600]

I'm not really sure about why it would be doing that, although I can offer these clues. I'm using DVD2Avi to extract the AC3 audio from the vobs, with an older version of DVD2Avi, it used to output files ending in the .ac3 suffix. The new version (version 1.76) now outputs files ending in .wav. Since I assumed that the new version of DVD2Avi is simply giving a new ending to the files I thought nothing of renaming the file to .ac3. I've made copies of approx. five DVDs this way so far and I haven't had any problems. With this current DVD, I have tried leaving the file as is (with the .wav extension) and also changing it to .ac3 with the same results either way. I'm only noticing problems now that I have this huge file. Is there a work-around for this that you know of, or should I try to find an old copy of DVD2Avi to avoid this problem altogether?

[tateu]

It sounds like DVD2Avi is decoding your AC3 to wav format. 2.2 GBs is a little large for a 384 kpbs AC3 file. It would be over 13 hours long. In DVD2Avi, go to the Audio menu | Dolby Digital and check to see if it is set to Demux or Decode. My guess is that it's on decode.

[H2600]

Thanks tateu, you nailed the problem on the head, I guess I never noticed that setting was wrong before.