Well, I got the movie FFVII:Advent Children, and I got the subtitles file with it and I used AVI Recomp to combine the subtitles and AVI file together. All worked dandy and I had a shiny new AVI file complete with Sound, Subs, and Video. Well, I wanted to convert this to mpeg-2 and attempted to do so through TMPGEnc. Well, I clicked on my movie and it took up both Audio and Video spots in the converter file list so I assumed since it already had audio on the file it would just use it...Well 5 hours later it's now an mpeg-2 and I open it only to find!....no sound is on it...none. It occurs to me now that AVI Recomp gave me another file with the Video and Audio seperate but I cannot load the audio into TMPGEnc. because it's an MP3 and it won't convert it... Also it occurs that I'm trying to play it in WMP...either way... Summarization: Had AVI full with subs,sound,video. After converting the single file to mpeg-2 there is no sound (when played in WMP) is the player the problem (do I need a DvD playback device?) or did I not do something correctly, I need some help, thanks.
Probably the audio is VBR mp3. TMPGEnc has always had issues with VBR mp3 audio. Why convert to an avi just to re-convert though? Much faster/easier just to frameserve via AVISynth to TMPGEnc. AVISynth decodes audio to PCM to, so no VBR mp3 issues.
