No audio, but video is there

[hellfire662]

i burned an XviD movie to a dvd-r, it came in 2 parts so i first joined them using ezjoiner. but when i played the movie in my dvd player (Sony dvp-ns63p), i got the video, but there wasn't any audio.

So i pressed the audio button on the remote and it said Dolby Digital or something, so i guess it saw the audio was there and it recognized it but it still did not play it.

is there any way to fix this problem? like a firmware update or something, or can i rip the audio out of the movie (its still on my computer) and burn it to the dvd so that it plays the ripped audio??

any help is appreciated, thanks

[Baldrick]

Please give us more information,
did you just burn as a data dvd disc?
or did you convert to dvd-video(a VIDEO_TS folder on the DVD with vob files), what software then?
do you hear any audio if you play the dvd with a software dvd player on your computer?

[hellfire662]

yes i burned it as a data disk and i used nero to burn it, and when i play it using a computer DVD drive (on nero showtime) it plays with the audio but it plays slightly choppily (ie sometimes freezes for a couple of seconds).

but the file on the hard drive plays fine

[hellfire662]

can anyone help plzzzz??

[dnix71]

Choppy playback could mean the source is corrupt or it was compressed too much when it was made into an xvid. You may even have a divx that Windows <thinks> is xvid.

Get GSpot and render the file and see what codecs were used and try playback with VLC.

If you give VLC a broken avi, it will usually offer to fix the time markers to make playback and searching easier. If you let VLC "fix" it, give it a copy to work from, not the original.

[hellfire662]

i used vlc also to play it off the dvd and it was still choppy, it wasnt a broken avi or anything though. But when i play it on my dvd player, the video is not choppy or anything but theres no audio even though there was when it was played off the computer.

[hellfire662]

bump...any help plz?

[dnix71]

If your computer profile is correct, then playback in VLC may be choppy. Your profile says you have a 1 GHz P3 Duron and only 256MB ram. With all the other processes going on in Windows, you're asking a lot to play back a movie that has been recoded and compressed.

You still haven't told us what GSpot said after you used it to render the file. What are the video and audio codecs and specs? If the audio is more than stereo, then VLC will have to dumb it down for your computer (assuming you only have two speakers), that takes some work.