AC3 audio problem - ambient sounds louder than voices

[catfish81]

Hello to everyone that reads this.

After much re-encoding, searching, finding and following of tutorials I am still failing to properly encode a divx movie with AC3 surround sound in it. I originally was just telling Gordian knot to "just mux" the AC3 file, but this didnt work for all movies (it did work for 1 or 2 of them). I found the "AVI with AC3 Soundtrack" tutorial and followed the method using AVIMux GUI. Although the speech is now louder in the movie (Spiderman) the music and ambient sounds (like the crowd at the wrestling match) are now REALLY loud.

Are there any other suggestions to help remedy this problem? I've played around with settings in the AC3 Filter properties in BSPlayer but that hasn't helped, and I read on the forum to try changing the Sound Device in the AC3 filter and BSPlayer as well but this didn't help.

[SiXXGuNNZ]

I am making spiderman right now, in an hour when I got it all put together I will let ya know how it turned out.

[SiXXGuNNZ]

okay, I didn't have any problems, I used virtualdubmob to join the ac3 I demuxed with dvd2avi

[catfish81]

Thanks for the help, that has got the sound working. Now I just don't know how to calculate splitting the file so that They will use up to 700Mb.

I used the method for splitting the file as in the doom9 tutorial pages with Virtualdub (i think, the one where you just press Home, Ctrl+Shift+J, enter 698Mb, press End and save the selection) But this over shot the mark completely. I think because it seeks to 698Mb in the Video stream, and then adds the AC3 on top of that.

So I figured that Gordian Knot has calculated the Audio(AC3)+Video(Divx AVI) to total almost 1.4Gb in this case, so I just selected the first half of the movie and saved that then the second half. (2x700mb) The first file came out at 685Mb and the second at 715Mb. Is there a way to work out where to split the file correctly?

I worked it out, just mux the whole movie and THEN split it using doom9 tutorial method.

[sekxx]

Perhaps you should try The "ogm" container,
use VirualdubMOD to mux your stream,
So no more trouble to split your muxed files, cause with XCD you get more than 800MB on a 80Min CD-R(700Mb), but this is not advised with avi file, that's why should give a try to OGM container...

[SiXXGuNNZ]

hmmmm, I split it at 698 and it gave me 698 for the first file, 699 was 702

when creating ogm containers, the sound goes async, so I stick with avi for now :)