More DVD Probs!

[BillyBollocks]

OK, here's the prob, after a lot of advice from here, I finally got a DVD encoded, authored and burned - but no sound!

Scenario: I downloaded a two-part DivX file (Triple-X, Vin Diesel). Each part played a treat! Joined the two using VirtualDub, lost some of the sound later in the film, so I exported the soundtrack using the 'Save WAV' command - scanned through the resulting 400+ Mb wav file - all OK.

Re-Encoded the DivX file WAV file using TMPGEnc, got a 3.5GB MPEG2 file. Used Ulead DVD to set up scene selection (worked OK), authored the DVD and burned it.

Put it in the DVD player, scene selection works OK, picture OK, sound disappears after 20 minutes and using 'Next' to skip through scene selection makes the film appear to jump and halt repeatedly. Same happens in PowerDVD on the PC.

Just what am I doing wrong here? Anyone, PLEASE!!!!!

[auenf]

does the sound work in the 3.5gb mpeg-2 file tmpgenc produced?

Enf...

[BillyBollocks]

Ah- Just checked, no it seems to break up a lot.

[roach76]

If you still want to use TMPGEnc, download SSRC and tooLAME and use them with TMPGEnc as external programs. They do a much better job than TMPGEnc does.

[slk001]

Your sound file isn't big enough to start with (some of it is missing). A 2 hour .WAV file @ 48ksps will be about 1.4GB for stereo and 700MB for mono.

[BillyBollocks]

OK, I tried encoding in TMPGEnc, using just the avi file as source (it clearly has sound all the way through!) and it encodes as a silent movie, presumably TMPGEnc can't detect the sound streams! Same applies whether I encode as MPEG 1 or MPEG 2.

I also tried encoding the two DivX halves of the film separately with a view to joining the resultant MPEGs - guess what - silent after about 3 minutes (again!!!)

If I load the avi into AVICodec (http://avicodec.duby.info/), it shows the following:
File: 701Mb, 1560Kbps,....Quality:80%
Video: 499Mb, 1112Kbps, 23.976fps, res. 608*256(2.21:1), div3=DivX ;-), MPEG-4 (Low-Motion), VFW ok
Audio: 201Mb, 448Kbps, 48000Hz, 5 Channels, 1 stream(s), 0x2000=AC3 DVM, VFW not ok

What the hell does all that mean - does it mean the sound in the original is f*ck*d? Is it time to give up with this film?

I acknowledge the entry re the sound of the WAV streams, but the original avis are only 700Mb long, so presumably the 400Mb filesize would be about correct

[bex]

The Triple X DivX i had , had Ac3 sound

If its the same one in Virtual dub Audio menu select direct stream copy

then in file menu select save wav

change the .wav extention to .ac3

stick them through ac3fix to correct the header

if you did each piece seperatly join them with to dos copy command

copy part1.ac3 /B +part2.ac3 /b joined.ac3 /B

obviously change the file names to suit

[BillyBollocks]

I downloaded ac3fix and sorted out the problems with the files to a degree - the two halves at errors at the ends.

However, file one shows a CRC error at 8mins2secs and ac3fix hasn't touched this - any ideas what to do next anyone?