Frame served AC3 and tmpgenc question.

[Dublin-Raider]

Been along time since i have used tmpgenc, so i apologise for the question, have read the tmpgenc guide but still need help.
Have frame served a ripped movie in dvd2avi, so i have a audio stream and a d2v video file.
However tmpgenc won't open the ac3 sudio stream, so do i use tmpgenc to re-join the d2v and audio stream?
Tmpgenc will open the d2v and encode it but i just don't know what to do with the audio stream.
Tmpgenc won't open the audio stream when choosing audio only either.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.:)

[mikerios]

after TMPEG has rendered the elemental video stream ( the *.m2v file if the final output is going to be a mpeg2 file ), you then multiplex it with the ac3 file under FILE---MPEG TOOLS---MULTIPLEX, you add the m2v and the ac3 and it will multiplex them to make the mpeg2 file ready for dvd authoring.

[Dublin-Raider]

Thank you for the reply. Your suggestion worked. :)

[ringo]

I have a movie it's an avi file with ac3 codec for audio and xvid codec for video. No problem playing it in windows media. Virtual dub will only play the video but no sound.

If I use tmpg to convert it it will only give me the video, no audio

I used virtual dub to remove the audio file and save it to wav. It worked and I have a file .wav file that works.

I then used tmpg to join the avi file with the audio file .wav
the result I get is no sound for the final mpeg file but video only (it did work in the past but won't this time).

any suggestion

thanks

[fccHandler]

You seem to lack a decompressor for AC-3. I made one which will work in VirtualDub and probably TMPGEnc too (depending on how you have TMPGEnc configured). You can download the decompressor here (http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/AC3ACM).

But a better solution may be to not decompress the AC-3 audio at all. Instead, you could use VirtualDubMod (http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/) to "demux" it from the AVI, then use TMPGEnc to multiplex it with your .m2v video (as mikerios describes above).

[ringo]

Thanks fccHandler, I'll try your tips over the week end.

[ringo]

fcchandler

I just had to install the ac3 decompressor and everything is going great now. I have sound when I convert the files.

but I have another problem with frame size that I posted in another tred.

thanks again for your help