Can you convert MPEG audio to PCM or AC3 from Video Studio?

[LAlexandrou]

I successfully captured DV NTSC from my Sony DCR-TRV8 DV Camera to Ulead's Video Studio 6. I also had no problem editing it with Video Studio. I then Finished it by creating (burning) a DVD-R.

When I play it on my Onkyo DV-S535 DVD player the video is fine but there is no audio.

On investigating the issue, it appears that Video Studio only outputs DVD as MPEG2 w/MPEG audio. MPEG audio is apparently not universally supported on North American DVD players (my Onkyo is one of them).

Note - It does play fine (video & audio) on my PC with Cyberlink PowerDVD which does support MPEG audio (it also works fine an APEX DVD player I tried).

How do I get Video Studio to finish to DVD with either PCM or AC3 (and not MPEG) encoded audio? Are there other products out there that will let me do this?

I tried Creating Video File - Custom and setting the audio compression to LPCM and successfully built an MPEG with LPCM audio. ...But when I tried to export to Video Studio's DVD Plug-in I got a message that the audio format is not supported.

I've read a bit about de-mutilplexing the audio; re-encoding as AC3; then re-multiplexing back but I'm concerned about introducing sync problems, and running into format incompatibilities when I try to build the DVD. Not to mention the added complexity...

Any recommendations?

[petec]

I have a similar situation. I captured using a Canopus/DV Raptor combo. Initially with same issues. I could get the DVD to play (MPG) on my Apex/Raite/Panasonic Portable but not Pioneer/Sony. I tried BeSweet but it doesn't create a DD AC3 which works with the Pioneer/Sony. So I tried Soft Encode (discontinued now) which does create a compliant AC3 2.0 or 5.1 DD track and this works on the Pioneer/Sony. The steps I use are:
- Capture with Canopus/DV Rapture via S-Video (DTV)
- Using TMPGEnc convert using the DVD Wizard (CQ) to video and audio
while converting, pause and grab the WAV file (PCM) - you can use WAV (PCM) if you want (but it's very large)
- Convert WAV (PCM) to a AC3 2.0 or 5.1 file (currently using 384 bit rate)
or u can try BeSweet to convert (look at tutorial to use) then use AC3fix to repair AC3 (was going to try to see if this worked).
- Use infoedit to author DVD
- Use Nero to burn DVD