Audio question when rendering

[Rick Mac]

Martin,

Most likely your DVD Player cannot play the type of audio file that is on your disk. For example, when authoring a DVD, DVD Architect wants to see either a Dolby AC3 file or a wav file. Any mpeg audio is re-encoded to AC3.

I would bet mpeg audio is outside of the DVD Video Disk
specs. Hence, it will not play on a a settop box, but will play on a computer since it can read many read many file formats.

If you need to be able to play the audio on a set top box
I would render the project out with AC3 audio instead of MPEG.

Regards, Rick.

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377

[Frenchie29]

What I did is I rendered as an mpeg2 file, took the file and burned it straight with nero as a data DVD.

I remember doing it before not too long ago. The client wanted the movie to start right away for her presentation, and she didn’t want any menus or nothing else and the only I could of get what she wanted was to bun the file with nero.

What option should I use for the audio?? right now I am using DVD ntsc mpeg2 with the default setting for audio.

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[Mike Kujbida]

As Rick suggests, do it with AC-3 audio.

Use the DVD Architect NTSC video stream template for you r video and the Dolby Digital AC-3 (default is fine) for your audio.
You don’t say how long the file is but, on a DVD-9 with this template, you’re good for 2 hr. of video without having to tweak the default bitrate.
Make sure to give both files the same prefix (i.e. myvideo.mpg & myvideo.ac3) & render them to the same folder. This way, DVDA will automatically load the audio once you load the video.

Burn it as a data DVD with Nero but prepare it (i.e. create the VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS folders) in DVD Architect.
I do this all the time with RecordNow and it works just fine.

To get it the way the client wants (the movie to start right away for her presentation), in DVDA go File – New – Single Movie and do as it says.
This way, the DVD will start playing right away.

And now, since it’s WAY past my bedtime, I’m going to sign off.
Hope this all works for you 🙂

[Edward Troxel]

Another possibility: How is the DVD player wired to the TV? If you have both channels being “Y”d to a single input on the TV, and because you duplicated the audio from ONE source onto both tracks, it’s not impossible for the two signals to cancel each other out.

Edward Troxel

[Frenchie29]

That could be possible, when I open the mpeg2 file in vegas I can see both wav files. I think I’m gonna give them the dvd as a full dvd format, now how hard would that be for them if they need to use the TS files(.vob) and do some editing with them??

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[Edward Troxel]

Shouldn’t be any worse than what you’re already giving them.

Edward Troxel