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  Is MPEG-2 compressing my audio?

  Posted by Ryan Mcrobb on December 16, 2010 at 11:22 pm

  Hello all,

  When I render a video to MPEG-2 format(for use on DVD video’s) I need to be able to render to uncompressed audio (44.1Khz 16 Bit .wav file or higher).

  I ask because on the render window I get this view:
  

  What worries me is the “224Kbps” part of this picture. This gives me the impression that it is compressing the audio. It also doesn’t allow to take this compression off:
  

  What I would prefer is the dialog box shown in an .avi render, with no compression:
  

  If anyone can suggest a way to help me out that would be great!

  Regards,

  Ryan

  Dave Haynie replied 15 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Dave Haynie

  December 17, 2010 at 6:40 am

  You don’t usually render audio and video together when creating a DVD. Are you using DVD Architect, or something else? For DVD, you should use one of the profiles for “DVD Architect” under MPEG-2, to ensure you have DVD compliant video.

  As for audio, if you want PCM (uncompressed), just render to a WAV file, and load that separately in your DVD authoring program. There’s no reason to worry about creating a multiplexed MPEG file for DVD, since the DVD application is going to strip that container and create its own, anyway. And you can’t use 44.1kHz sampling; DVD requires 48kHz.

  -Dave

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