sound problem

dark1s · Post by **dark1s** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:23 pm

I am creating a dvd using Ulead DVD Workshop v.2 that is composed of a play 1st avi file, 8 other avi files and a 2 page custom menu. I have created several DVDs using this product with simmilar file sources and this one is the first that I've had problems with. I have now burned 2 disc and loaded the image file using a windows virtual drive and the result is the same when I try to play them. The problems is that during editing and previewing of the created dvd I have full audio on the play 1st file as well as the other video files themselves. However when I create an image or burn the dvd I have no sound on the play 1st video and only about 10 sec of sound on all of the other files. The origional files were pulled from a Japanes realease of a dvd with english dubbing and saved as .avi files. There are no error messages at all. Any ideas ?

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:57 pm

I have created several DVDs using this product with simmilar file sources... pulled from... a dvd ... and saved as .avi files.

You probably have a bad video file this time. What format/compression is in these "AVI" files? What's the audio format? AVI files can be DV, DivX, MPEG, or anything else!

If they are anything other than AVI/DV, can you re-capture to AVI/DV?

The AVI/DV format seems to cause less trouble than the other (more compressed) formats. I've had lots of trouble with some MPEGs. (A bad video file will sometimes play-back OK. In every case, my corrupt MPEGs played OK, but caused various problems when I tried to make a DVD.)

On the other hand, if you can get the MPEG-2 off of the original DVD, and avoid re-coding it, your video quality will be identical to the original.... if you can get a clean MPEG.

You can also try exporting the audio to WAV files if you have Video Studio, or another program that can do it. Then, you can feed the WAV files to Workshop, and replace the current audio. It's worth a try, but it may not work or you might get "lip sync" errors, if the original problem is caused by corrupt A/V files.

dark1s · Post by **dark1s** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:43 am

I think the origional avi files are in the DIVx form. I am going to try ripping them again in a different format and see how that goes.

thanks