On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:29:03PM +0100, Maik Holtkamp wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > 0n 08/10/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:58 Andrew told me: > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:27:04PM -0400, Andrew wrote: > > > > > > After fumbling with options I came up with a command line that > > > seems to almost work; however, the last and seemingly(?) crucial > > > option I added, "-A", produces the fatal error " critical: Oops, > > > this version of transcode only supports PCM data for audio > > > transformation" > > > > > > That led me to search for a way to rebuild my (1.0.6) transcode > > > with AC3 support enabled but i didn't find any clues in > > > documentation. > > > > > > Bottom line here: how do I transcode VOB's to AVI's, with AC3 > > > audio fully preserved, with as many channels as i start out > > > with? > > > > > > I found a wiki saying that transcode automatically mixes 3 or > > > more audio channels down to stereo (2 channels). But what if i > > > don't want this? > > > > > > I know there is a way to preserve 5.1 or whatever, when > > > transcoding VOB to avi's (ffmpeg) -- (handbrake does it, for > > > example) > > > > This is a essentially a "bump" > > > > is there no way to transcode VOB's to AVI's and preserve the > > original AC3 audio? (Is the downmixing "magic" always imposed upon > > you, even if you don't want it? :-) > > > > Or, at least, to extract/dump the AC3 audio as a separate file? > > > > (mencoder does this. But mencoder doesn't handle multiple VOB's as > > one (concatenated?) input, the way transcode does) > > I would try to use mencoder/mplayer's -dumpaudio to handle the sound > separately and use avimerge for muxing/merging the results.
My files are a bunch of *.vob files (I would use mencoder to transcode to avi if it mencoder took multiple "*.vob" as input. Does it?) Are you suggesting I -dumpaudio for each individual *.vob, and then concatenate the resulting "*.avi" files into one? > > - -- > bye maik > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFJCuv/0Bn175Anq4gRAt/FAJ437/9oKPw4b6ewqxvD5846VhodcACfdo0U > 1jFdcFTqidmJNP1xdoiB0pY= > =AZnv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > --
