How to convert a MPEG's audio from Dolby Digital to LPCM?

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I am trying to cut an MPEG into multiple pieces using TMPGEnc's MPEG
Editor, but (apparently because they're too cheap to pay for the
license) it doesn't support anything with Dolby Digital-encoded audio.
Right now, I have to jump through a number of hoops in order to get
something with sound to appear in the editor.

(Actually, the source is a set of VOBs from a DVD recorder, but it
gets converted to an MPEG in the first step below.)
Here's what I have to do now:
1. Load the VOBs through TMPGEnc MPEG Editor's source wizard. This
creates an MPEG that has Dolby Digital 2.0 audio, but the software's
editor acts as if there is no audio (and anything I make from that
MPEG ends up silent).
2. In Adobe Premiere Pro, import the MPEG, and then export the audio
as an uncompressed WAV.
3. Use BeSweet to convert the WAV to an MP2.
4. Back to MPEG Editor; use the advanced multiplexer to combine the
video from the MPEG with the modified audio. This results in an MPEG
that MPEG Editor likes. (No sync problems, either, and I am editing
three-hour MPEGs.)

Is there an easier (or at least faster - it takes about 40 minutes for
a three-hour file, mostly in Premiere) way of doing this? Is there
some software I'm missing?

-- Don

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>"Don Del Grande" <del_grande_news@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> (Actually, the source is a set of VOBs from a DVD recorder, but it
> gets converted to an MPEG in the first step below.)

Those DVD recorders I have know so far, use "mpeg audio", not Ac3. Are
you sure it's not "mpeg audio" in the first place?

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Bariloche wrote:

> Don Del Grande wrote:

>> (Actually, the source is a set of VOBs from a DVD recorder, but it
>> gets converted to an MPEG in the first step below.)

> Those DVD recorders I have know so far, use "mpeg audio", not Ac3. Are
> you sure it's not "mpeg audio" in the first place?

I'm fairly certain it's AC3, and MPEG Encoder is under the impression
that that's what it is. (I shelled out for the AC-3 plugin, and now
have no problems editing the MPEGs with sound.)

Both my Philips DVDR985 and my Sony RDR-GX300 appear to use AC-3 audio
in the recordings.

-- Don