AC3 file missing

[pago cruiser]

Ive ripped dozens of movies now, with (almost) no problems. GK.26 and DivX 502 Pro, BeSweet. Two movies lately have me stumped;Coyote Ugly and Point Break. After ripping, the VOBs play fine using my ATI AIW VOB player. However, when creating the D2V file in GK, the AC3 file is missing! Coyote Ugly yields a .mpa (?) file, and Point Break yields nothing, nada, zip! According to Smartripper, the audio in these movies is NOT the standard 0X80 stream; in Coyote Ugly it is CX80, and in Point Break it is 0x82, 83, or 84 (different audio streams). Selecting the "map to" option in SR and selecting 0x80 did not help.

This is really pissing me off. :angry: I'm about ready to play these in my Apex DVD player, feed it to my SIMA Color Corrector/Macro Vision eliminator, feed it to my ATI AIW capture card, make an MPG, create a DVD, and then create a DivX from that. It works, but there is a significant quality degradation... I'd rather solve the audio stream problem...

Any ideas? :confused:

[jggimi]

DVDs can have many different types of audio, such as DTS, DD, PCM, and MPEG.

As far as I know, DVD2AVI can demux only two types of audio, DD and MPEG. The text files produced by DVD Decryptor or SmartRipper should describe the formats of your audio streams, not just the stream numbers.

There are settings in DVD2AVI for both DD and MPEG. 1) Check to make sure that "Demux all tracks" is set for DD, and, as well, 2) check to make sure that Track 1 is selected. I understand that if you select track 5, for example, DVD2AVI will only demux tracks 5 and above.

According to IMDB, the R1 of Coyote Ugly has a DTS 5.1 track as well as both English and French DD 5.1, plus a commentary in DD 2.0. Perhaps the DTS track is confusing things?

[pago cruiser]

Yep, "Demux all tracks" is set in both Dolby Digital as well as Mpeg, and Track 1 is also selected. I went so far as to do this NINE times, selecting a different track number each time.

After some hunting around here and the digital-digest forum, it appears that VOB2Audio may be necessary in order to strip the audio. Sheesh, it sounds like this is gonna get messy, cause then (I believe) I end up having to manually synch a separate audio file after initial further processing in Wavelab or another audio program...

Any other easier ways to do this with (apparant) non-standard audio files, or are these types of problems just this difficult to resolve?:(

[manono]

Hi-

You could enable Streams Processing in either Smart Ripper or DVDDecrypter and try and get the audio streams out during the decrypting stage. I've never done Point Break, but there's no problem with the R1 Coyote Ugly.

[hakko504]

@jggimi

LPCM audio will also be demuxed by DVD2AVI. But as you wrote, the DTS track may confuse it.