I recently was able to acquire a full version of CCE for a couple of days to try to encode an AVI file. I left it on overnight encoding, and when it was finished the picture quality was pristine, however there was no sound, and no sound file in the folder. I had chosen to create a WAV file as the audio. When I tried it again it gave me an error, (error number 512), and said something about the audio and WAV not supported, and then quit. I attempted to encode the file to DVD format again, and then ripped the AC3 audio separately, but again the encode would not work and quit after one pass. My question is is this the correct way to attempt this? If I encode the video to MPEG2 video, and rip the AC3 audio separately then I should be able to combine the two back together with authoring software, correct? If this is true then which authoring software is recommended?
CCE 2.5 sometimes has errors for a so-called 'CRC error'. You didn't post which version which version you use. You could try his test: 1) open the AVUI with VirtualDubMod. 2) set Video__Direct Stream Copy. 3) Do Stream__Stream List 4) the first thing you'lll do is to press 'demux' if the audio is AC3. If it is MP3, extract a WAV later. 4) Disable the audio stream and save Movie__mute.AVI. To be sure, in the CCE's template just check 'Video files' and leave 'Audio file' unchecked. I hope CCE doesn't show any error, when it encodes Movie_mute. Later we'll see what to do , with the M2V video and the AC3 audio (or WAV later converted to AC3 48000 Hz with FFMPEG GUI, if the AVI had MP3 audio 44100 or 48000 Hz).
