PAL miniDV to NTSC MPEG-2 in Vegas - sound problem

[kotko]

Hi guys,
I am a newbie both in this forum and in digital video world.
Here is my problem:
I have a PAL system Sony miniDV digital videocamera bought in Europe. I live in Canada so I tried to convert my home video to NTSC so I can watch it on my TV set.
I used Vegas 4.0 to convert PAL miniDV into NTSC MPEG-2. I rendered and saved it on my hard disc. When played on my PC it worked fine. Then I burned it on DVD and tried to play it on my DVD player - Philips DVP 642 hooked to my new LCD TV. The picture was OK suggesting that the conversion to NTSC worked. But I did not have any sound whatsoever in contrast to watching it on my PC.
Can you guys help me - why when playing the home video on DVD player there is no sound and yet I don't have troubles playing it on my PC? Thx a lot.

[guns1inger]

What sound format did you render to ?
Does your player play all mpegs correctly ?
Have you tried authoring the mpeg into a DVD ?

[kotko]

Thanks guns1inger for prompt help,
1) I wasn't aware of the sound format, I even don't know where and how to set it. But here is the audio setting for rendering: MPEG layer 2 audio stream. Psychoacustic model 2, Bit rate 224, Sample rate 48,000. And "include audioo stream" is thicked off. Not sure if this is the answer to your question...
2) Yes, my player plays everything without any problems.
3: Not sure what authoring the MPEG into a DVD is. My understanding is that MPEG-2 is the format standradly used for DVDs.
Thanks.

[guns1inger]

1. There are two ways to create assets for VD. One is elementary streams, where the video and audio are rendered to separate files. The other is a program stream - a single file with both audio and video contained in it. You have chosen a video rendering option that renders just the video elementary stream (the "Include audio Stream" check box), which is why you have no audio.

2. Had to ask, as not all players will play mpeg files from disc.

3. Mpeg-2 is the compression format for DVD, however to have a DVD Video, this needs to be authored into the correct structure. Just burning an mpeg-2 video file to disc won't make it playable in all players.

You have a choice. You can render the whole thing again, this time with the audio included, or take a short cut and render just the audio, and then either mux it into the video, or authoring a DVD Video structure. If you have DVD Architect you can use it to author, otherwise there are other alternatives.

[kotko]

Thanks guns1inger.
I used DVD architect and it is working perfectly!!!
Thanks a million.