Need help...right channel is muffled, left channel is okay

[oncedust]

I am a video producer and do all the DVD authoring at my company.

NOTE: I am talking only about videos that I have produced myself and not anything commercial/illegal.

What I have been doing lately, in an effort to save time, is to create my DVDs by taking the output of my edit system into a Panasonic DMR-E75V DVD recorder, and recording my edited projects onto DVD. What I do then, is to extract the streams off the DVD so I have my mpg file and an ac3 file. I use those in ReelDVD to author my DVDs.

I use SmartRipper to extract the streams and PX3's AC3 extractor to convert the AC3 to a WAV.

For some reason I cannot figure out, the left audio channel sounds great, but the right audio channel is muffled and sometimes distorted. The audio is fine if I play the DVD I have recorded, but the problem seems to occur when I am stripping out the video off the disc.

What I end up doing is copying the left channel into the right channel, making a mono sound...which I don't like doing, but is better than distortion.

Has anyone else encountered this issue at all?

What do other video professionals do to encode their video (using hardware)?

Thanks,
Casey

[MysticE]

Maybe try another program to extract the audio? Give DVDDecrypter a shot.

[oncedust]

Naturally, I've been dealing with this for months, and a quick post on this forum and a ton of headaches are relieved.

I found out that it's the PX3's AC3 decoder that has been the problem, because I used the DVD Audio Extractor and the audio is pristine, although the process is slow.

Thanks,
Casey