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Posted by: AAL1947 Mar 7 2003, 06:08 AM
Have the following video and need the AC3 Codec so that I can re-encode the video. Need to convert the AC3 to WAV. Want to end up witha MPG file.

Help Please. Thanks in advance.
Tried search for AC3 but found it confusing.

Info from TFO Codec Finder v1

Video Info:

Movie Name: C:\boa.txt
Codec: DivX;-) Fast
Bitrate: 813 Kbit/s
Width: 360
Height: 240
Fps: 29.970


Audio Info:

Codec: AC3-Digital
BitRate: Kbit/s (Rounded BitRate)
Channels: 2 (Stereo)
Sample Rate: 56,000 Hz


Miscellaneous

Size (MB): 531 MB
Size (kB): 544,033 KB
Size (real): 557,089,420
Length: 89 minutes, 11 seconds.

Date/Time Info Compiled: 3/7/2003, 1:00:48 AM


Posted by: ChristianHJW Mar 7 2003, 08:13 AM
There is no AC3 codec for Virtualdub, as it can only work with ACM codecs and there is no AC3.ACM .

You have to extract the audio stream using Virtualdub's 'save WAV' function and then load the AC3.wav into BeSweet or HeadAC3he ( www.doom9.org or www.everwicked.com ) to process it to PCM WAV ....

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