[vlc] Re: Streaming AC3 & Video

[Benjamin PRACHT]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004, Mike Budde wrote :
> Hello,
> I am having a bit of an emergency.
> Tomorrow night i am premiereing a feature length movie to 300 people.
> The video is currently on my G5 computer (in Final Cut Pro).
> The audio is saved as an AC3 file (mixed into 5.1 surround sound).
> 
> My original plan was to import the AC3 file into Final Cut Pro and stream 
> the movie from the timeline.
> However, Final Cut Pro does not accept AC3 files.
> 
> My backup plan is to render an MPEG2 video file from Final Cut Pro.
> Then stream the MPEG2 and AC3 files through VLC.
> However, i can't figure out how to stream audio and video simultaniously 
> through VLC.
> 
> Is this even possible? Do you know another program that can sync video with 
> my AC3 file?
> Do you have any suggestions for me?
> 
> I want to avoid compressing the movie to a DVD because the film is 100 
> minutes long, and the compression looks horrible when it is reduced to 
> 4.7GB.
> 

VLC currently cannot stream data coming from 2 different files at the
same time. VLC would however be able to stream such elementary streams,
once merged in a single MPEG2/PS or MPEG2/TS file.

-- 
Benjamin Pracht

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