Help needed - trying to author and burn an SVCD onto DVD-R

[Belfast_Man]

I'm following the VCDHELP guide to putting SVCD onto DVD-R. My problem is when I burn the DVD-R I get picture but no sound.

The VCDHELP.com sample worked perfectly when I burned it so I know my Pioneer plays SVCD DVD-Rs.

I followed the guide to the letter, made sure the audio was re-encoded to 48Khz, made sure the .mp2 file was renamed to .mpa, made sure the SVCD headers were changed and then put back before compiling - where am I going wrong? Could someone who has had success using this guide give me some advice?

When I use SpruceUp to export the DVD-R, for some reason it won't burn directly to my Pioneer DVR-104 so I export the Title Set instead (as per the guide) and then burn that using Nero.

When I play the resulting DVD-R in both my normal standalone DVD player and also WinDVD on the PC I get perfect picture but no sound.

Is there supposed to be something in the Audio_TS folder that SpruceUp creates?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Paul.

[ABEG]

Nothing should be in the AUDIO_TS folder. It is just there for future DVD Audio discs. You may want to try opening putting the VIDEO_TS folder and AUDIO_TS folders at the root of one of your drives and then use WinDVD or PowerDVD to try and open it. That way you can check if you authored the DVD correctly without having to burn it.

[Baldrick]

did you rename the video and audio file to the exact same name but with different extensions before adding in spruceup?

[Belfast_Man]

Thank you all for your replies - this is where I offer my apologies.......

I forgot to check the .mp2 file in Winamp to see what the audio frequency was, and as it turned out the SVCD was already encoded in 48 khz so I shouldn't have actually re-encoded it.

I burned the DVD-R and the disc has started off fine, both picture and sound matching.

However....... I have now found another problem in that at the point where I joined the SVCD files together to make one MPG using TMPGEnc the audio on the DVD-R is now miles out of sync!!

Any suggestions now friends?

I'm determined to get a working DVD-R if it kills me!!

Thanks in advance,

Paul.

[andyrice_2000]

Hi guys,

I am actually having the same problem!! I have a Scoob on 2 SVCDS and have encoded it successfully and it looks great, I have even merged the files together and changed the audio to .ac3 format, but when it hits the merge point the sound loses sync! I am becoming very frustrated. I know when I did LOTR it was a case of going into COOLEDIT and making both the audio and video files the same length, this worked successfully. So give that a go, I am going to try that tonight as last option. If anyone else knows of another suggestion please help.

Thanks peeps.