No audio on the DVD

Scooterspal · Post by **Scooterspal** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:51 pm

Using Ulead MF3, W2K-SP4, PIII 866mhz.

Original source is a DVD-R from either a Pioneer industrial or Samsung consumer DVD-R recorder. Audio and video plays fine in several brand set top players, Ulead player and from within MF3. DVD states: AC3 format, 16K, stereo.

MF3 Settings I'm using:
7kbps
unchecked "do not convert Mpeg files"
checked "treat Mpeg audio non compliant"
under customized have set compression to Dolby, 256K (also tried 224K)
(I have also tried setting audio compression to LPCM and to Mpeg2 with same "no audio" results)

Every time the final DVD is silent.
DVD audio specs state: N/A

I have no trouble when I work with captured DV AVI files. They are perfect every time.

Any advice will be appreciated.

Scooterspal · Post by **Scooterspal** » Thu May 25, 2006 2:37 pm

I got it to work.

After reading another post below I reset as follows:

Checked: Do not convert compliant MPEG files
Unchecked: Treat MPEG audio as non-DVD compliant

Set audio compression to Dolby (AC3), 256k

The final DVD's play fine on the computer and on my several set top players.

Scooterspal · Post by **Scooterspal** » Fri May 26, 2006 7:52 pm

Well, what worked yeserday will not work today. Same settings, same file and no audio on the final DVD.

I must have blown though 20 blanks trying to get this thing to work today.

Talk about buggy software.

Would it make any sense to upgrade to MF5? Does it work any better when working from an existing DVD-R than my version 3 does?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat May 27, 2006 2:16 am

Scooterspal wrote:I must have blown though 20 blanks trying to get this thing to work today.

Why dont you either:

1. Burn to a Hard Drive folder and then use some DVD playing software to view it first.
or.....
2. Use re-writeable discs?

Scooterspal · Post by **Scooterspal** » Tue May 30, 2006 2:43 pm

I installed the MF3.0 update patch and that seems to have cured all my ills. The program now indicates the correct file size (no more ballooning) and the audio is recorded to the DVD intact.

Tech support never even mentioned there was an update patch for this product. That should have been their first suggestion expecially since my problems were addressed specifically in the patch description on the site.

Anyway, thanks to all who have replied and tried to help me. This is one of
the better forums on the web and your help is much appreciated.

Scooterspal · Post by **Scooterspal** » Tue May 30, 2006 6:57 pm

Well, I bit the bullet and upgraded from 3.0 to 5. Glad I did. MF5 seems to be a much more refined program from 3.0 that solves all the issues I've had and been posting about since last week.

It is greatly improved in the area of DVD importation. Whereas MF3 used the old chapter points from the existing DVD (and made each a separate clip for some odd reason) MF5 allows you to start from scratch and either make all new chapters of almost any length you desire or use scene changes for chapters or turn off the chapter maker altogether.

My only complaint so far is the seemingly reduced set of backgrounds and templates from what I had in in the older version. MF3 had many more of each.

Since I still have 3 on my system I'll see about migrating them all over to the folder for MF5 so I can still use them.

Anybody done this as yet?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed May 31, 2006 12:35 am

Please view:
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=13854