avi to dvd no audio in dvd player

[pinit]

hello

I'm using ffmpegx 0.0.9 to convert avi to dvd ffmpeg
using the instructions on the ffmpegx site for avi to dvd

I burned the video.dvd folder using toast 7.
The dvd plays fine on the computer, but in the dvd player there is no audio when the charaters speak. I can hear background music in the movie but no talking.

Does anyone have any idea whats going on??

[terryj]

you can hear music but no vocals?
Usually it works only one way:
No audio means NO AUDIO at all.

Go back and Play the AVI with VLC.
Report back what VLC reports under the Information
setting on the streams in the file,
specifically Stream 0 and Stream 1, and what codecs
it sees are needed to playback the file.

[pinit]

thanx for responding
yep, I can hear music and no vocals

stream 0
codecs : XVID
type : Video

stream 1
codec : a52
type: audio

[tomlee59]

Does the music sound totally normal, or does it seem to be lacking in bass? And when you say "no vocals" do you mean absolutely none at all, not even faint/distorted/ghostly? The reason I ask is that some dvd players have a "karaoke mode" function, which attempts to remove vocals from commercial recordings. They do this by simply subtracting one channel from the other, using the assumption that most vocal tracks are mixed to be common to both channels. The subtraction is never perfect, though, so there's usually some residual vocal artifacts. And since bass is generally also common to both channels, that gets wiped out, too. Double check to see if your player has such a mode. If it does, I bet you will find that it's enabled. If so, disable it, and you should be good to go.