[vdr] Re: AC3 Problem with vdr2dvd.pl

[Dirk Hartmann <dha@morticah.net>]

--On Saturday, May 03, 2003 18:00:17 +0200 Ulrich Gierschner <vdr@wopr.de> 
wrote:

> Another Problem with AC3 Audio arrived...
>
> I just recorded Starwars running on ProSieben and looked forward to see
> it  later on DVD with AC3 Sound.
> First I used the latest version of vdr2dvd.pl with ac3 support.
> The generated DVD does only run on a Sony DVD Player, neither on my
> Pioneer  DV-717 nor my another Toshiba SD-2107.
Strange I recorded it too and made a AC3-DVD with vdr2dvd. It runs without 
problems on my old Phillips 712.

> The Picture is fine, but instead of Dolby Digital only squeezing audio is
> played. It does not matter if I use the interneal AC3 Decoder (Downmix
> Decoder for Stereo Output) or an external Yamaha DDP2 Decoder. There is
> always digital garbage decoded using this players.
>
> After that, I tried to make the dvd with ifoedit.
> Before I demuxed AC3, Mpeg Audio & Video by ds.jar
> Generating the VTS Structure with IFO Edit and burned to dvd the result
> is  not convincing at all.. now the dolby digital soundtrack is not
> played  correctly at any dvd-player :-(
> So I assume there is something special with this AC3 track generated by
> ds.jar.
Hm. Are you completely sure your Recording at all ist correct?

> If I open it in a AC3 Editor, it is treated as a normal PCM File with
> (logically) garbage in it...
> Is the an easy and simple way to convert it dvd-conform?
you can try to send only the ac3-Stream through transcode
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/html/mpeg.h
tml

Dirk

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