Soft Encode not opening file

[jriker1]

I have worked with extracting 2.0 and 2.1 channel AC3 from AVI files, converting to 16-bit 48k wav, and re-encoding with Soft Encode to make sure the AC3 is compliant. Besweet I have had problems with the movies pausing once burned to DVD in some players. Found out it was the audio. Encoding in Soft Encode resolved it so I'm pretty much only comfortable with this encoder. I have recently had some 5.1 ac3 audio that when I convert to wav, and try and open the WAV in Soft Encode, it doesn't open the file. Just sits there and goes back to the same screen. No errors, no logs no nothing. Anyone have a clue on this?

Thanks.

JR

[johnman]

I hope i understanded your problem, since your english isnt exactly perfect :).

You say that the ac3 from besweet doesnt work very good. Thats correct, although i havent tried it myself, there are many issues with the encoder. So you use softencode instead.

The problem now is that the wave you try to convert isn't accepted in softencode? If its 2.0 audio try to use something like cooledit to test it. Maybe you should try to demultiplex it and test the mono audio track, and insert these one by one in softencode.

How big is the file?

[jriker1]

Thanks for the reply. The file converted into a single WAV is a little over 4GB. I'll try extracting each channel and provide them to Soft Encode individually.

Out of curiosity, is there another AC3 encoder that would be better? I'd imagine, considering how old Soft Encode is, that there must be another encoder out there, commercial or otherwise, that I should be looking at.

Thanks.

JR

[tebasuna51]

SoftEncode don't open wav files > 4 GB. More info in lasts posts in:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=75613&page=2

You must to demux in 6 mono wav with Tranzcode (I don't know other software now to do this with wav 16 bits) or BeSweet if is a wav 32 bits-float.

After you can open this mono wav with SoftEncode (be aware with the channel order).

Yes, there are new comercial encoders (Sony Vegas, ...)