CCE Encoding Failure

[ChickenMan]

I already tried that and failed. Let's see if I read you right.
Saved as wave in VDub.
Renamed to mp3 in explorer.
Converted to AC3 with ffMPEGGUI.
Authored with DVDLab.

When I tried to play it back in Power DVD, there was no audio.

Cheers
Jola

To start with, if you set VDub audio to Direct Stream Copy, when you hit Save WAV (which should be called Save Audio), make sure the filename ends in MP3, not WAV. If you set Audio to Full Processing Mode, then and only then will it convert the audio to a real WAV file. Do either, just be aware of what your extracting/converting and name accordingly. A Direct Stream copy is substantially quicker, as there is no conversion occuring, just extracting.

Does the MP3/WAV file play okay on your PC ? When you convert to AC3, does it also play (assuming you have some AC3 codec installed to allow it to play, I use a plugin for WinAmp)? If so then the problem lies with DVDLab, are you absolutely sure you actually dragged the AC3 file into the audio for the Movie?

 

[rebootjim]

are you absolutely sure you actually dragged the AC3 file into the audio for the Movie?

I would hate it, if this whole thread fell apart because he didn't import the AC3 to assets and then add it as the audio track

 

[Jola]

Thx all - it's really appreciated.

Just got back and will try your suggestions (I know inside, I've done something wrong!)
Will report with my findings asap.

Cheers
Jola

 

[Jola]

Ok, so I have begun to try everything bit by bit and I fell at the first hurdle!
I opened Virtual Dub and loaded the avi. I've attached the first error message. I chose direct stream copy first. I saved wave, this is where you say it should be called save audio ( I take it that is what it "should" be called but it isn't). The save box defaults to wave files so I chose "all files" and saved it as *.mp3. It only processed so far then I got the error "Cannot write to file *.mp3. The parameter is incorrect. Same when I chose Full Processing Mode and tried to save as a *.wav.
I decided to use Nandub after that and the mp3 was processed fully with the same proceedure as above. The file plays back the audio ok. When I tried to do the wave file though, (in Full Process Mode) it only processed to 2mb, and very quickly the mp3 was 80+mb. Anyway I converted the mp3 to ac3 resulting in a 147mb file but it hasn't a program to open it with (Imean like a WMP icon). I checked that I hade the ac3 codec/filter which was present.
Sorry about the extened mail but thought it best ti include everything.
Btw when I used DVDLab I did drag the ac3 to the audio in the assets pane.
Thx
Jola

 

[rebootjim]

Open the avi in Goldwave.
Select Effect, Resample.
Set the slide bar to 48000hz (48khz).
Click OK.
Click File, Save as.
Select "Save as type" and find .wav
In the Attirbutes box, select PCM signed 16 bit, stereo.
Click the SAVE button.
You now have a 48khz dvd compliant fully processed .wav
Don't do anything else to it. Don't convert it, don't mess with it at all!.
Encode your VIDEO (no audio!)!
Import the encoded video and the 48k .wav into dvdlab.
Author and burn.

 

[Jola]

Thx rebootjim, I'll try that.
Just one question - how do you encode the video without the audio? I usually use dvd2svcd.

 

[Jola]

OK - I know I'm taking up a lot of time but please place the final piece if the jigsaw and tell me how to encode video only? I usually use CM's version for avi to dvd (several times very successfully). Do I do the same but dispense with the audio file and use the 48khz wav file?

Thx Jola

 

[Jola]

Don't want to be a pest or persistent but I'd just like to get this finished after all the help you given but I usually encode by the CM tute using vdv2svcd so should I continue with that and forget the audio it produces and use the audio from the Goldwave result? I don't know how to encode video on it's own from an avi which is how I read the last post.

Thx
Jola

 

[ChickenMan]

You have already encoded the original AVI, the problem is with the audio. Just grab the original encoded *.mpv file and the new WAV you just made from VD and load those 2 into TMPGEnc DVD Author. If its to big when finally authored, you will need to convert the audio to AC3 as I've suggested earlier and load that into TDA instead of the WAV file.

 

[rebootjim]

Providing you haven't deleted it, you have already demuxed the file back on the 31st, so you should have the resulting .m2v and .mpa
Just use THAT m2v and the newly created .wav and load those two into your authoring app.

 

[Jola]

Thx guys,

I actually lost the encodeds after a system restore but I'll do it again.

Apppreciate your help.

Jola

 

[Jola]

Hi - the file is too big so I tried to convert to ac3 as suggested but I end up with a file extension which is not recognised by any application as before. Obviously something is wrong as the *.wav plays perfectly. Can you point me to the mpegui tute 'cos I can't find it anywhere.
Thx
Jola

 

[rebootjim]

What file is too big?
Too big for what?
In tmpgenc, just lower the bitrate until it's about 95% of the medium you chose.

 

[Jola]

The wave file is 1.18gb and when I author with DVDlab I end up with a file 5.7gb. Mind you, it is now in sync throughout so that's a great result. (Thx)
I'd rather not lower the bit rate of the movie as the quality would drop but the wave file is at 1500kbps. Why wont the ac3 conversion work? That seems to be the simplest option.

Thx

 

[rebootjim]

OK, now you know how to make a movie and keep it in sync.
Now you need a good app to convert the audio.
There's a simple trick with tmpgenc.
Load the .wav as audio, no video, and simply encode it.
Set tmpgenc to ES Audio only, and click the Setting button, set it to mpeg 1, audio layer 2, 48000hz, Stereo, 224kbits/sec.
You will get a 48khz mp2 which you can load directly into dvdlab.
Takes about 5 minutes, and it will be MUCH smaller than your .wav

You could also do AC3, this way: http://club.cdfreaks.com/lite/t-78614.html

 

[Jola]

Success at last
Thanks so much to you all for helping me through this, I now have a perfect DVD totally in sync.
I'll save this thread in case it happens again.

All the best,

Jola

 

[Jola]

And then failure - maybe too ****y eh?
Another one bites the dust but this time the process dosen't help at all
Thx anyway

 

[ChickenMan]

The problem is that avi's download off the net are normally corrupt in some way, well, a large % are. The process works fantastic if the avi is healthy, if not expect problems. Check the avi out with divfix and/or divxrepair.

 

[Jola]

Hi
The reason that I cannot fix this in the first instance is that when I open the avi in Goldwave it dosen't produce the usual sine wave graphic like others do, so when I resample (as rebootjim said) I get a wave file that is larger than the original avi.
I checked Goldwave with another avi and it reads the avi.
Jola

 

[Jola]

Just checked with divxfix and got this: "Error offset: 124846822
Corrupted data detected at frame 27801"
Can that be the cause of the problem?