Low volume in authored DVD

[joelson]

Hi ALL,

I've just authored a DVD. The image and sound are perfect in my desktop DVD. However, in my friend's DVD the volume gets low in the beginning, and almost mutes, along the footage. Even if he increases the volume, we can hardly hear it.
Both TV and DVD are quite new.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

[Capmaster]

Has he checked the master volume setting in Windows?

Assuming he has, is it possible that his sound card is flaky?

If all else fails, you could demux the audio and video from your source file using TMPGEnc, open the audio file with a good editor like Goldwave, adjust the volume, and save as a .wav. Then use TMPGEnc to remux the two into a system stream, and re-author

[joelson]

I guess I didn't explain well. The volume of the captured video is fine. I've watched the authored DVD in my DVD player, and the sound was fine too. But in my friend's DVD player, the sound is low.

[kush]

"increases the volume"? On the TV or DVD player (or both)? I mention this because both my players have volume controls independent of the television.

Also, what is the audio source - AC3? Audio can tend to get 'muted' some in, say a conversion from MP3 audio to AC3, and you may need to increase the sound levels before the authoring process. I suppose the reason this may not be noticeable on the PC is because maybe you have audio filters (such as AC3 Filter?) or the audio sound panel that compensate for such 'low' sound.

I'm not sure if this is making any sense to you, but I can say that I've had issues like this in the past where I did a conversion w/ a TV documentary rip where the audio was fine up until the final conversion/authoring process. Once I burned it to DVD, the audio levels were WAY too low, even when I put my TV volume to 2/3+ level (NOT good when you get annoyed w/ it, turn TV back to the tuner and it blasts the speakers out ).

[edit] Now that I read it again, it seems like you're not talking about PC DVD players at all, both using set-top players right? Don't know, maybe your friends players audio converters (or whatever ) in the player itself sucks compared to yours?

[joelson]

Kush,

Thanks for the help. What happens is just like you wrote in your post-edit: my set-top player seems to be much better than my friend's. He told me it's a very cheap model.
How can I fix this?

Thanks.
PS: About the term I used "increase the volume", I guess it's not suitable. I want to say to turn the volume high (sorry about my English, I'm from Brazil ).

[joelson]

By the way, my friend's dvd player is "Gradiente DT-230".
You can see it in the link below, with a 3D animation.

http://parceiro.buscape.com.br/demo3d?idu=39138

Does anybody know what happens?

Thank you!