Is it possible?

I am ripping lots of dvd’s, but all the audio is in ac3 format.

I am getting the error “avcodec find decoder failed”

I saw mention in another forum post that one could get some dll to solve the issue, but I have not succeeded so far (just generated more error messages, tried using ffmpeg-r13712-gpl-lshared-win32 binaries)

What is the recommended procedure to encode dvd’s in a minimum number of steps? I wish I could just pop in the dvd, select which tracks I want to use, and have the encoder handle the rest… :-)

Help/tips appreciated!

DVD video encoding is MPEG2, which is good, as it’s supported out the box. What we don’t support is AC3 audio due to licensing restrictions, so the best thing to do is convert it into high bitrate mp2 audio. 320kbit, or something like that.

If you leave the format as an MPEG program stream, that will work best.

ok, thanks for your reply.

What I am doing now is to rip the DVD and demux into m2v/ac3 using rejig, muxing into one mpeg file using tmpgenc tools and then feed this file to the video encoder (batch dpg, dsvideo) usually with disastrous results….

:-)

Disastrous results? How do you mean? You’ll definitely need to demux in order to convert the audio into mp2, and then remux, so that’s roughly the process I was thinking of.

I use a Mac, so none of those GUI tools are available to me, but it shouldn’t matter which tools get used.

I get lots and lots of program errors and crashes, using various tools to encode video

I guess it is because DS video (in general, including other tools than DSvideo) is still in its “infancy”.. :-)

What I would like to do, is to get the video and audio straight off the DVD, convert the audio on-the-fly, (add subtitles for some titles) using avisynth and pipe this into dsvideo. Is this possible? Perhaps using the linux version…?