AutoGK & Muxing of AC3 Sound

[Scaramouche]

Gday All
I was looking around the forums, and i came accross the AC3 FAQ thread.

12. Does the muxing software and settings affect AC3 playback?

If you plan to pass the sound through SPDIF and use AVI then the answer here is clearly yes. Thanks to the great AVI muxing software (AVImux GUI) from alexnoe, perfectly smooth playback with AVI/AC3 can be achieved easily. AVImux GUI is highly recommended to mux AC3 into the AVI container. Until now we were pretty much limited to using NanDub for AVI muxing but recently it was discovered that the muxing code in NanDub is serious flawed. Therefore, it’s no longer advised to use NanDub for any type of muxing. Now that we have AVImux GUI, in general we no longer have to worry about the interleave values and just use the default 500/75 provided. Please read the forum threads and the AVImux documentation for more details. You can find the latest builds on alexnoe’s home page here or grab it from Doom9’s download section. If you're using CD media to play back from and the CD drive is being accessed excessively causing playback problems then you might want to try an AVI file using AVImux. AVImux will cut down on the CD drive access considerably thanks to the nice “rec-list” feature implemented. VirtualDubMod is also an excellent choice for AC3 in AVI muxing.

Can somebody please tell me how AutoGK Mux's AC3 files, does it use Nandub or AVImux GUI??

Thanks

[manono]

Hi-

AutoGK uses VDubMod at default settings to mux AC3 audio.

[Scaramouche]

Thanks for answering.

has anybody had any of the above mentioned trouble with AC3 AVI's made with AutoGK? I havent so far, so it might be just Nandub which has the flaws.

[Scaramouche]

heheheh i must be going blind. I re-read and it turns out VdobMod works just fine. So looks like everything i wanted to know has been answered!!

Thanks!

[len0x]

Originally posted by manono
AutoGK uses VDubMod at default settings to mux AC3 audio.

preload is indeed default (500ms), but interleaving is 2 frames actually.

[valnar]

Scaramouche,

I use AVIMUX GUI myself. For that reason, I still use the "regular" Gordian Knot as it is not all that complicated anyway. After I get my video, I mux it manually with AVIMux. It does indeed work a lot better.

-Robert