Stereo AVI gets converted to double mono using L channel while transcoding

[AppliedCD]

Sorry, newbie here. AVI out of PP3 with all sources stereo, the AVI sounds great in media player and is definitely stereo. Bring the AVI into Encore 2 and the resulting DVD is double mono using the left channel only … here’s the strange thing, I get the same results using Nero Vision Express. I am 100% sure the AVI is stereo, it includes clips from an old Beatles song where the old school stereo imaging put all of the vocals into the left channel and the instrumentals into the right, well, the instrumentals are gone on the DVD and I’ve got nothing but vocals coming out of both speakers. Again, the AVI sounds fine, just for kicks I even burned the raw AVI to DVD and popped the disk into a set-top player and it played fine … something is wrong with the transcoding and it’s a problem for both Encore and Nero. Any know what’s up?

[guns1inger]

Encode the audio separately with Aften, test it, and if you are happy with it, author with that file instead.

First I would load it into audacity or something else that will show you the wave forms to see if they really are different.

[Soopafresh]

The guns1inger speaketh truth. Also an alternative -

If your audio track in your AVI is MP3, you can use this to create your AC3 file -

http://forum.videohelp.com/topic326127.html