Can't Do AAC to AC3 with FFDSHOW: Errors Out and Closes

[dougdude9]

Ok, now I have the exact same problem as the orginal post after I disabled uac and hit reset settings in shark and then made my changes back to use ffdshow for aac and then encode on fly to ac3... it will error out when I try to render the file.

So, the fact that I have completely rebuilt my pc from scratch and installed the shark packages with nothing else installed tells me perhaps I have a problem with my mp4 aac files??? However, I'm almost certain they worked before and I got 5.1 audio. So I'm not sure why I can no longer select ac3 encoding in ffdshow.

Does anyone have a mp4 file with aac audio that you know you can encode on the fly to ac3 so I can test? I really don't know what else to do at this point! It has to be either the updated shark codec pack causing issues (back when I "think" I had it working, I was using 2.x version) OR it has to be my mp4 aac files which would mean I never really had it working in the first place.

If anyone has a small sample of a mp4 with aac audio that converts to ac3 ok on the fly, please let me know. I would love to try it out!

Thanks,
Doug