newbie problem with audio

[ackronym]

Hi,

I need some expert guidance regarding audio in DVD-to-VCD conversion. I followed Sefy's guide to be very user friendly and I followed it step by step (using SmartRipper, DVD2AVI, TMPGenc, VCDEasy) to rip and encode a Hindi movie (K3G).

Frankly, I thought everything went really well, till I played the newly burned VCD on my DVD player, and voila..good video but no sound..none..zippo..zilch!! So I am trying to go back and figure out what I did wrong. After the rip and the DVD2AVI steps..i did get both d2v file and a wav file. For a sanity check, I played the wav file, & I can hear the movie soundtrack. So I know I did not select a wrong track. I used the wav file for encoding (only wav on that drive) and totally am stumped about where the problem is.

Anyone have any ideas? Would really appreciate any help. I have spent way too much time on this..and am fast approaching frustration. Just ..please please don't tell me I have to go through another 16 hrs of encoding...

Also, Sefy's process flowchart did not make mention of subtitles. Whats the best method for that?

Thanks in anticipation.

[Sefy]

Did the final MPG play on your PC with sound ?
Regarding Subtitles, the Classical guide does not support Subtitles, but the fuller guide does have Subtitles using many different methods.