Hi All,
An annoying problem - I recorded a programme from TV with my standalone DVD recorder and now want to add menus and chapters to it.
It plays on my DVD player absolutely fine but the soundtrack of the show is causing DVDWS to crash when trying to burn the final disc, it gets stuck everytime at 77% on 'Converting audio of ... '
I've also tried stripping out the AC3 file from the original DVD disc and converting it to WAV with a couple of tools but they also report an error and refuse to work.
I'm assuming that the DVD Recorder suffered some kind of error during recording and that there's nothing I can do with this now, but I thought I'd throw it out there to see if anyone has any bright ideas.
Thanks very much!
James
Corrupt AC3 file...
You could make an analog to wave recording. Connect your DVD player's audio output to the computer's line input. (You'll need an adapter RCA-to-to-Stereo mini phone, if you don't already have one.
I think Windows has a wave recorder built-in. But I always use GoldWave, so I can't tell you how to use the built-in recorder.
It will take some experimentation to get the audio & video syncronized, and you will loose some audio quality with the digital-to-analog-to-digital conversion, but it should work.
Before you try this, try making a DVD with no audio, or some random wave file... just to make sure that fixing the audio glitch will fix your problem.
I think Windows has a wave recorder built-in. But I always use GoldWave, so I can't tell you how to use the built-in recorder.
It will take some experimentation to get the audio & video syncronized, and you will loose some audio quality with the digital-to-analog-to-digital conversion, but it should work.
Before you try this, try making a DVD with no audio, or some random wave file... just to make sure that fixing the audio glitch will fix your problem.
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sender
Haven't had any experience on what you are doing. But I did a lot of home video to DVD with AC3 in 5.1ch. I encode my 5.1 AC3 with another software. Sometime (but not always) dws doesn't like this output and convert my 5.1 AC3 back to 2ch AC3. But I found a way to cheat dws and override the conversion. May be the same method can help your case.
In the dws project folder, after a burn to folder attempt, you can find a subfolder Cvt<something>\TITLE-01 (01 stands for first title and so on). It houses the dws-converted AC3 file with name ~xxxxx-001.ac3 something like that. Simply replace this file with the one you want dws to use but retain this name. Then burn to folder again (of course don't change anything related to this title, you can change menu and other title but not this one). This time dws will not convert the audio and will mux video with this file. I use this method to replace 2ch AC3 (produced by dws's conversion) with my original 5.1ch AC3 (produced by my AC3 encoder). Hope this can help.
Back to your problem. Since when handling your audio, dws and other software crashed, I guess there must be something wrong. Since the disc run well in your DVD recorder, haven't you try to play it with other DVD player/recorder?
In the dws project folder, after a burn to folder attempt, you can find a subfolder Cvt<something>\TITLE-01 (01 stands for first title and so on). It houses the dws-converted AC3 file with name ~xxxxx-001.ac3 something like that. Simply replace this file with the one you want dws to use but retain this name. Then burn to folder again (of course don't change anything related to this title, you can change menu and other title but not this one). This time dws will not convert the audio and will mux video with this file. I use this method to replace 2ch AC3 (produced by dws's conversion) with my original 5.1ch AC3 (produced by my AC3 encoder). Hope this can help.
Back to your problem. Since when handling your audio, dws and other software crashed, I guess there must be something wrong. Since the disc run well in your DVD recorder, haven't you try to play it with other DVD player/recorder?