Auto GK can't manage to encode the ac3 audio

[jp80]

I tried to compress a movie dvd into a 700mb xvid at a fixed video width of 640 and audio at 128kbps VBR mp3. The weird thing is the ouput avi file has mute audio, and when I checked the temp folder where autogk keeps the intermediate files to multiplex, the 340mb ac3 of the dvd was right there and when I played it with Powerdvd, I could hear the movie sounds well. Moreover I'm using the stable 1.95 version of AutoGK, and as the log of the job shows, the mp3 size of the converted audio is only 172kb. So do you have an idea on how could I make AutoGK work right? Here's the log:

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[29/03/2005 01:46:23] AutoGK 1.95
[29/03/2005 01:46:23] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2
[29/03/2005 01:46:23] Job started.
[29/03/2005 01:46:23] Input dir: J:\GIRLFIGHT
[29/03/2005 01:46:23] Output file: L:\Movies\GIRLFIGHT.avi
[29/03/2005 01:46:23] Audio: English
[29/03/2005 01:46:23] Subtitles: Français / Normal Captions : Wide
[29/03/2005 01:46:23] Subtitles 2: Français / Normal Captions : Letterbox
[29/03/2005 01:46:23] Codec: XviD
[29/03/2005 01:46:23] Target size: 700Mb
[29/03/2005 01:46:23] Custom resolution settings: fixed width of 640 pixels
[29/03/2005 01:46:23] Custom audio settings: VBR MP3 with average bitrate: 128Kbps
[29/03/2005 01:46:23] Started encoding.
[29/03/2005 01:46:23] Demuxing and indexing.
[29/03/2005 01:49:42] Processing file: J:\GIRLFIGHT\VTS_01_PGC_01_1.VOB
[29/03/2005 01:49:42] Source aspect ratio: 16:9
[29/03/2005 01:49:42] Source resolution: 720x576
[29/03/2005 01:49:42] Found PAL source.
[29/03/2005 01:49:42] Analyzing source.
[29/03/2005 01:59:28] Source is considered to be progressive.
[29/03/2005 01:59:28] Output will contain 159527 frames
[29/03/2005 01:59:28] Decoding audio.
[29/03/2005 02:02:43] Normalizing audio.
[29/03/2005 02:02:44] Encoding audio.
[29/03/2005 02:02:45] Preparing subtitles.
[29/03/2005 02:05:04] Compressing subtitles.
[29/03/2005 02:05:11] Using bitrate spikes control.
[29/03/2005 02:05:11] Audio size: 176,128 bytes (0.17 Mb)
[29/03/2005 02:05:11] Overhead: 6,381,056 bytes (6.09 Mb)
[29/03/2005 02:05:11] Subtitles size: 773,439 bytes (0.74 Mb)
[29/03/2005 02:05:11] Video size: 726,672,577 bytes (693.01 Mb)
[29/03/2005 02:05:11] Running compressibility test.
[29/03/2005 02:13:08] Duration was: 7 minutes 56 seconds
[29/03/2005 02:13:08] Speed was: 16,72 fps.
[29/03/2005 02:13:08] Compressibility percentage is: 55,24
[29/03/2005 02:13:08] Chosen resolution is: 640x352 ( AR: 1,82 )
[29/03/2005 02:13:08] Predicted comptest value is: 55,24
[29/03/2005 02:13:08] Running first pass.
[29/03/2005 03:54:28] Duration was: 1 hour, 41 minutes 19 seconds
[29/03/2005 03:54:28] Speed was: 26,24 fps.
[29/03/2005 03:54:29] Expected quality of first pass size: 53,30
[29/03/2005 03:54:29] Running second pass.
[29/03/2005 06:08:10] Duration was: 2 hours 13 minutes 41 seconds
[29/03/2005 06:08:10] Speed was: 19,89 fps.
[29/03/2005 06:08:10] Job finished. Total time: 4 hours 21 minutes 47 seconds
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[ukb008]

AGK uses BeSweet to do this. There must be some problem in your audio file. The log shows that the audio processing took about 3 minutes.

Why don't you try transcoding the ac3 into mp3 using BeSweet from the AGK folder? You can then mux it with the video file using VDubMod from the same folder.

Regards.

[jp80]

Well actually everything went well after I found the problem was a lack fo free space on the drive with the agk temp folder...

[ukb008]

That's a little odd. Audio could not be done because of lack of space, and then how was video, about 700 MBs of it, generated at the end of 4 hrs 21 mins 47 seconds?

Regards.