XVID Conversion

[SATANIC1]

Well, I posted the following in the XVID section and got hit for violating rule #3...go figure. In any event based on Koepi's direction, I am posting here. Thank you for any assistance.

XVID Conversion
I have some XVID files that I am trying to convert to DVD format. I am stuck with the audio processing. I used TMPGENC to extract the video stream to MPG2 format and I used AVI2WAV to extract the audio and keep it in its origunal for of DD5.1 AC3. I then used Vegas 4 to merge the 2 video streams to one. No problem to this point.

Then when I extracted the audio using AVI2WAV it saved it in WAV format but, GSPOT identified the file as a Dolby_AC3 file. Thinking this was a true AC3 file I imported it into Maestro only to find out it was not supported because it was not truly a AC3 file. So I have tried to convert the WAV file to an AC3 file using various tools and I have had no luck.

My goal is to have both streams (audio & video) seperate so that I can merge both in Vegas 4. As I stated above, the video stream posed no problem. I am just having a time with the audio. Any suggestions or guidance to the right place would be apreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[LigH]

Usually, I would try to open the AVI file with VirtualDubMod and demux the audio stream to a raw AC3 file, then open the AC3 into HeadAC3he 0.24 alpha 8 and scan it.

Unfortunately, the only place I could download this HeadAC3he version was in the German doom9 board, an this is down now. I wonder if DarkAvenger uploaded the alpha anywhere else as well; I'll try to ask him in his forum (http://pub31.ezboard.com/fdarkavengerssiteforumfrm1.showMessage?topicID=152.topic)...

[SATANIC1]

Thanks for the suggestion, Ligh.

I had a copy of SoftEncode and loaded the wav files in there. Then encoded the files to AC3 format. This worked out well as Maestro now sees them as AC3 files and loads them with no problem.

But now, I need to merge these 2 AC3 files into one just like I did with the extracted MPEG2 files. Maestro seems to have a problem with merging files. Vegas 4 will process and merge the MPEG2 files but does not recognize AC3 files.

So now I need to find a software that will handle both streams. Any suggestions? Thanks again in advance.