Audio problems in dvd2onex and toast 6

[snuffy51]

I took my avi to dvd2onex and followed instructions on the tutorial. I created a folder with dvd name and put in VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. I burned in Toast 6 under data and came out with a disk that my dvd would play but with no audio. Very confused as I have been trying to follow instructions now for 2 weeks to get one 686 megabyte avi file to burn to dvd. The avi will play perfect with mplayer. I am just about fit to be tied with this sh#*@*^. anyone got a clue? Thanks

[pixeljammedia]

Read the tutorial again. DVD's use mpeg2 files not AVIs. The audio should be either PCM or AC3.

[snuffy51]

You're right it is PCM. I encoded the avi using toast and saved as disc image, then imported that into dvd2one. I checked the PCM and let dvd2one do it's thing. Then burned as data DVD in Toast. Just can't figure why the resulting DVD had no audio.

[pixeljammedia]

Where was the last step in which you had the audio? Was it when you had just an AVI? When you mount the Toast disc image (before DVD2One X) will it play sound in Apple's DVD Player? I doubt that anything is happening at the requantizing stage as that deals with the video. My guess is something happened when you dropped your AVI in Toast.

[snuffy51]

You are absolutely right again. It will play with no audio in dvd player. Wonder what I did wrong in Toast?

[pixeljammedia]

Toast uses Quicktime to encode the video. Try using something like FFMPEGX or MPEG2Works to encode audio and video separately. In this case you could also rip the DVD into a single VOB (using Yade X) Demux it (using FFMPEG X or BBDemux) and create mp2(PCM) or AC3 audio using FFMPEGX or MPEG2 Works. This will allow you to keep the already encoded video, and remultiplex in a working audio track. MissingMPEGTools will also do the job and is free. Download it from RNC's site.

[tgpo]

And if it's a avi file originally, then there are hundreds of formats the audio could be.

[snuffy51]

I tried installing ffmpegx to no avail. That's another thread. I will try mpeg2works and try again......and it is PCM. Man, I wish there were some Mac folks here in southern VA