AC3 audio, Video Studio 8 - Graphics

"Richard Curzon" <rcurzon@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:41nqllF1f2637U1@uni-berlin.de...
> I understand due to lack of licensing, VS8 doesn't play AC3 sound.
>
> I've also read that it reads in AC3 data, and writes out it again
> accurately...
>
> I wonder... is there a way to separate the audio, write it out, and
> translate it to LPCM.
>
> I tried the Save Sound (WAV) function, no dice as I expected.
>
> I can separate the audio track, manipulate the length etc. But no way to
> extract it "raw" to disk and translate it with other tools?

If you can get the audio out to an AC3 file, use BeSweet to convert AC3 to
PCM WAV.

Use BeSweetGUI to give it a front end that's marginally better than the
"command line" alternative.