[FFmpeg-user] MPEG AC-3 Error

[Kirk Bocek]

On 12/20/2014 2:09 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Moritz Barsnick <barsnick <at> gmx.net> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 18:02:39 -0800, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>
>>> 2.2.4-67.el6
>>> Does that sound current enough?
>> Much better than 0.x.
>> For reproducing bugs, testing the latest Git
>> is preferred.
> It is actually required.
>
>>> As for the container format, I am confused
>>> by your statement.
> The problem is just that ".mpg" is ambiguous:
> For more or less historical reasons, FFmpeg
> does not output a MPEG-2 program stream when
> you specify .mpg but a MPEG-1 system stream.
> MPEG-1 system streams (probably) do not
> specify AC-3 and at least vlc and WMP do not
> support AC-3 in MPEG-1 system streams.
>
> Note that you can do:
> ffmpeg -i input -acodec ac3 -f vob out.mpg
> mpg is certainly no unusual suffix for
> MPEG-2 program streams.
>
>>> MPG is the source file's format.
> There is a difference between transport
> streams and program streams and I believe
> the difference is bigger than between a
> system stream and a program stream.
>
> Carl Eugen
>

Well VOB fixed my problems and let me take my clip into my video editor. 
It was confusing to me that the output video played fine but the audio 
was fubar. But all is well now.

Thanks again.