Still no audio in my dvdr's

[wtyslee]

I am using TMPGenc to convert my .avi video file to .m2v and a .wav file.
I then throw away that wave and use goldwave to extract audio to make a new .wav(16bit/4800hz).
Then I open TMPGenc author to author and burn to a dvd+rw.

When all this is done I get a DVD with great video but no audio.
I wasn't getting audio before on my PC or home DVD player until I reinstalled Power DVD. Now I can get audio on my pc from the DVD but still not on my home DVD player.

I was gonna re-encode the audio to ac3. But I was told you didn't need to. Also when I went to use BeSweet with AC3Machine it doesn't do anything. I hit wav to ac3 and a DOS screen flashes for about 1/10th of a second then nothing.

Is there something I am missing?

Please help. I have been working on this for over 2 weeks now.

[wtyslee]

Can no one think of what the problem might be?

[steptoe]

For BeSweet, you might be missing the AC3 encoder, thats why you get the DOS window flashing up, it can't find what its looking for, so quits

Follow this link, this should have everything you need. Its the BeSWeet home page :

http://dspguru.doom9.net/


As for the audio problem, try extracting the audio soundtrack using VirtualDub save it as a WAV. Can't remember, but I think TMPGenc excepts .wav files as the audio track, possibly not, that why you're not getting any audio

Next time, check the settings for that track, and see if the audio track settings are ghosted out. If so, thats you're problem, it doesn't accept .wav files !

If not, just convert the WAV file to MP2 using BeSweet, its what I do, and I know this works


It may be that you might have to fiddle with the settings on the home DVD player, has it always done that ??

I had no audio on my home player at all, even with shop bought DVD's until I fiddled with the default audio settings on the player. It wasn't set to the correct channels. Worked perfectly as soon as I did that

[wtyslee]

Ok I figured it out just as you were replying. It is partially my home DVD player. I switched the audio out from bitstream to pcm and voila! Audio!

Now this is mostly good news. But why won't it play from bitstream? I really don't want to have to change back and forth all the time so I get 5.1 on my DVD's. If I convert the audio to ac3 will it play out bitstream? Or is there just a setting in TMPGenc Author I am missing(btw, I am leaving the Re-encode settings UNchecked in the clip information. Should I check that?)

Thanx for your prompt response hope you can help me just a little bit more.. I tried the guide for BeSweet before and it doesn't seem to help. i Have everything set the same way it is shown and it just flashes. just tried again and the same thing happens.

[Tryzik]

I too am having this problem. Some DVDs I backup require my dvd to output Bitstream and some require it to be in PCM. From what I've gathered, Bitstream is compressed audio such as in mpgs whereas PCM is the RAW audio. I may have this backwards. Can anyone clarify? What are we doing or do we need to do to have our dvds work on the proper setting. Which setting is the desired one? PCM or Bitstream? Thanks

[daamon]

Hi wtyslee,

Try Baldrick's ffmpeggui for WAV -> AC3 (I use 192 kbps). It uses the same encoding algorithm as BeSweet, so you will effectively get the same file that BeSweet would produce, but it's a hell of a lot simpler. It also does WAV -> MP2.

Good luck.