sound help

[frustrated]

hi all

I usually use The Film Machine to convert my avis to DVD but I am having a problem with a particular movie hence the reason for this thread.

The problem I have is that when my movie has been burnt onto DVD, the audio in the first half is at twice the normal speed and for the second half of the movie there is no audio at all. I have used TFM to try and convert this same movie a few times and I get the same results.

The Mask has informed me that TFM will not be able to convert this particular one because of the low kbps of the audio so I am wondering if anyone can suggest an alternative way of converting this movie.

The properties of the film are as follows:

Source - NTSC-DVD R1
Runtime - 03:25:11
Resolution - 512 x 384
Framerate - 23.976
Container - AVI
Video Codec - XVid-1.1
Video Bitrate - 1372 kb/s
Audio Info - MP3 61 kbps VBR 1 Ch
Subtitles - English
Disks - 3 (700.46, 699.07,699.33)

I need a program that will allow me to join the 3 parts of the movie and I would also like an option to add selectable subtitles (though this is not essential). Finally I am trying to burn this movie onto a blank dual layer disc.

I really need to convert this onto DVD so would appreciate all your help.

Finally when suggesting a program, can u recommend any settings I may need to change for the conversion to be successful?

Thank you for all your help

 

[LTR12101B]

This might be of use...
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
Not sure I understand it myself, but note one specific point in the documentation...
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/doc/en/vbrmp3.xml.html

I'm no expert on it, but it seems to be a very capable piece of freeware.

Alternatively, "quick and dirty" with no options...
http://www.vso-software.fr/download.htm
Try DivXtoDVD - it's still a free (not fully developed) version, and it's taken everything I've thrown at it (not just DivX, or in my case, not even DivX).
It's not perfect, as if the audio sync is off by a beat, there's nothing you can do, and the output is a "burn ready" VIDEO_TS folder with no menus or twiddly bits - though if it makes passable job of that stage, you could then reprocess that as if it was a DVD-rip.

 

[celtic_druid]

Could decode the audio to wav, then try TFM again. What is the samplerate though? As I suspect that is more an issue than the bitrate. Still you could resample whilst re-encoding.

 

[frustrated]

hi thanks for the help.

The quick and dirty option suggested by LTR12101B worked so thanks