AVI with AC3 to MPEG2 to DVD burn

[erikc]

I have downloaded a couple of films which are split across two files. Unfortunately they have ac3 audio. I use virtualdub to create an ac3 file and I then use begood to create a wav file. This is where I hit the problem. If I then try to add the wav file to the video only file using virtualdub no audio works.... when the counters are going up with the file size it stays at zero for audio.

If I try to use TPMG to create a MPEG2 file use the video only file and adding the wav file to the audio section once it has gone through its process there is still no sound.
I am new to this and it may not be possible to convert AC3 files to mpeg2 to write to DVD but any help would be very much appreciated.

[setarip]

I just dragged and dropped onto TMPGEnc v.2.50, a DivX-compressed (v.3.11) .AVI containing an .AC3 audiostream (created with SoftEncode) - and readily converted it (video and audio) to MPEG2 format - with no extraction or conversion to .WAV format of audio needed...

[erikc]

Thanks for the reply.

I tried dragging the file direct into TMPGenc but when I tried to encode it the program recognised the video part but no audio was picked up. Is there something else I can try.

Once again thanks for taking the time to read.

[setarip]

Under TMPGEnc's "Environmental Settings", increase the priority of the Direct Show Multimedia Reader...

[rubymagic]

Hi, I have the same problem trying to convert an ac3 file using TMPGEnc.....I have tried the suggestion above, the DirectShow Reader is top priority, which does now enable TMPEnc to recognise the audio stream.

Unfortunately after encoding to SVCD the audio is lost on the final encoded file...????

Any suggestions please would be gratefully appreciated.

Many thanks