Converting DVD VOB ac3 audio to mp2?

[AngelofDeth]

Could anyone point me to a guide, and or software (free) that can be used to do this?

[BobPhoenix]

You could use SageTVTranscoder.exe with the parameters from this post. Since this will work for the MVP it should work to just convert the file as well I think.

Edit: Of course I suppose you also need to use something to specify the Input/Ouput file name so would need those too. So I guess it might not be that easy - opps.

[AngelofDeth]

I really don't want to transcode (in real time) the vobs, as my server isn't all that powerful. I also figured converting to standard mpeg2 would fix the problem with VOBs time being hosed too. (FF/RW won't work)

[BobPhoenix]

Yes but maybe a combination of the information from this post will help. Sounds like encoding to AVI files works so maybe mixing the parameters will work the way you want.

BobP.

[BobPhoenix]

This appears to work for me:

SageTVTranscoder.exe -i <input file> -f dvd -vcodec copy -acodec mp2 -ab 128 <output file>

BobP.

Edit: although I did convert the .VOB to an AC3 .MPG first with VideoRedo. I'm experimenting with the VOB directly now.
Edit2: It appears to work directly from the VOB but I got errors to start with because I was using the VOB directly off the DVD instead of using a single VOB of the whole DVD.

I tested this with a NON-CSS dvd that I recorded myself. VideoRedo reported audio as AC3 on the input file and the DVDR I recorded the DVD on lists audio format as AC3 so it should be. Tested the output file from command above and VideoRedo listed audio format as MPEG Layer 2 so should be working. I don't expect this to work with a encrypted DVD's however.

[AngelofDeth]

Thanks, that did the trick. Now if only SageTV 5.1 was out and actually fixes the widescreen problem I will be real happy.