No Audio on certain TV sets??

[snapware]

Does this make sense?

I have an interview that I conducted using a microphone, it works great on my computer and my tv set at home, I bring it to my friends house, and there is no audio during this part.

Why would some TVs not play the audio? that is weird, what am I forgetting to check for? thanks

[guns1inger]

Played back from what ?

Is it on DV, DVD, CD ?

[snapware]

Yes this is on DVD

At 1st I thought it might due to the audio being mono and the tv not support that channel? but i don't think that is it

There is literarlly no sound coming out from the tv, but when i play it on a different tv it works fine.

[guns1inger]

What format is the audio ?
Not all NTSC players support mpeg2-layer1 (mp2) audio, and not all amps can decode it if it is sent via digital out.

[snapware]

It's just from this 1 scene where I used my microphone to record the audio where it's not projecting..

It's really really weird.. it's definetly has something to do with the TV not support the audio channel where the sound is coming from... Besides L / R is there anything else?

it's weird, but i would like to get to the bottom of it so i don't have this issue in the future

[guns1inger]

If you created a stereo audio track then you only have left and right.

Again, what format audio did you use on the disc ?
How did you encode it ?

[kimco52]

You really haven't given much information as to what you did.

How did you record the microphone? What program did you use? Is it one microphone into a single channel? One into a stereo channel? Did you mix one channel to a stereo channel?
What program did you use to combine video and audio? How did you mix the audio?

Does the other audio come through? and just not the microphone part?

Is the microphone totally not there or sorta badly there?

You could have an out of phase microphone between the two channels. On a stereo set, it may sound ok but when played on a mono tv or amplifier, the two channels could cancel each other and you won't hear anything.

If you play the DVD on your player at your house and it works, what if you take that DVD player to your friends house and played your compilation. Would it still not play on his set?

The phase problem could be the culprit. I have had this problem from time to time. You should always listen to your compilation on a mono set to verify it is all there.

[snapware]

I FIGURED SOMETHING OUT!

Let me know if any ideas come to mind.

I was playing around with the video clip in Vegas, and when i combined the channels on the audio, there was NO SOUND, just like how it ends up on certain TV sets. The reason there is no audio on certain tv sets is that the tv must combine the audio channels, but why does this happen?

Why would the sound be muted when the audio channels are combined, i selected right only, and i hope this works, thougths?