Error message creating DVD using Ulead DVD Workshop 1.2

[xtjcx]

I am trying to create a DVD with the highest level or video and audio. I used Vegas Video 3 to capture and edit my video (in AVI format). I again used Vegas Video to create a MPEG-2 video file. I then used Ulead DVD Workshop to create a simple DVD as a test. When I go to the last step in DVD Workshop to burn the DVD, I choose High Quality (8000 Kbps, 60 min per DVD) but I get a message "MPEG audio is not a standard audio type for a NTSC DVD." Why do I get this message? Do I have to customise the Make Disc process and choose LPCM audio? Or am I making the DVD incorrectly? All I want to do is capture the video from my DV camcorder at the highest quality.....use Vegas Video to edit my video and save it out in the highest quality preparing it for DVD burn....and then use Ulead to create some simple menus and then burn it. Thanks for any help.

[MustISO]

Audio on a DVD must be 48Khz. Check that.

[RealaT]

I belive that mpeg audio is only compliant on pal dvd standards, not on ntsc.
You need to change the audio to PCM or Dolby (or whatever else it supports)

[ahfairley]

Don't worry about the message, IF your frame size, frame rate are compliant (and your bitrate is within the limits, I think 2000 min and 9800 max including audio for DVD).

DVD WS will accept and not reencode (if you check the "do not reencode compliant files" box) even though your audio track is MPEG layer 2. In fact, when I import mpgs that has the AC3 as the audio track DVD WS gives me the MPEG message anyway. Go figure.

Just ignore the message.

[ahfairley]

One other thing. It sounds like you're encoding from VV3, that's good because VV3's MainConcept encoder is better than the one in DVD WS. Just check "do not encode compliant file" or whatever it says on the DVD WS final output page to maintain the VV3 quality.

[xtjcx]

Thanks all for the info.

ahfairley - That is correct...I purposely took advantage of Vegas Video's MainConcept MPEG-2 encoding. Question though, in reference to when you say to make sure the tell DVD Workshop to to re-encode my already encoded MPEG-2 files....the only setting I could find in Ulead WS was the very last screen before making the disk, there is a check box called, "Do no convert compliant file(g)". Online help says this:

Do not convert compliant file While burning a disc, select this option to save time and retain the original source file quality by not rendering files that are already compliant to DVD/VCD/SVCD.

Is this the re-encoding part that I should avoid? I could have sworn there I read on these forums that there were problems with DVD WS that it automatically re-encoded your files unless the bitrate was set to something higher that something.....not sure what they meant.

[ahfairley]

It looks like you have v 1.2, the check box option (which is what I was talking about) was not there in 1.0. What you're talking about occurred with v 1.0. And, you do NOT want to have DVD WS rencode what you've created with VV3. BTW, if DVD WS is not re-encoding, the blue progress bar will move really really fast on the first couple of steps after you click the start button, if it goes slowly, it's reencoding.

[Trader]

There is something really whacked about dvd workshop 1.2. I burned many disks with 1.0 and never had any problems. First disk I burned with 1.2, I got that stupid message also about mpeg audio not being compliant. I chose to write anyway but when I put the disk into my stand alone I got no sound. After messing with my receiver and dvd player, I found that the sound was there but wouldn't transfer over my coaxial connection between dvd player and receiver. I had to switch input to analog direct and then I got sound. This makes no sense to me since the exact same kind of files written with 1.0 worked fine over the coaxial connection. To make a long story short I uninstalled the program and went back to 1.0 and everything works fine again. Some damn upgrade.