Distorted sound / audio playing DVDs on a set top player

rpungin · Post by **rpungin** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:55 am

When I burn DVDs with VideoStudio (11+ currently but the same problem occured in 10+), the sound is fine when I play the DVDs on my computer's DVD drive. But when I play them in a set top DVD player, the sound is distorted. I tried two different DVD players (Panasonic DVD-S27 and Toshiba SD3990)

What I think is happening is that the sound recorded on the DVD is too loud. The computer sound hardware can cope with that loud level of sound, but the set-top DVD players sound distorted.

I know it's not the problem with my original video files that I burn on the disk because even the menu music which comes with VideoStudio also sounds distorted.

I tried clicking Normalize Audio checkbox and changing the audio format from Dolby Digital to LPCM and none of these changes helped.

I've tried searching for threads related to this problem and found these threads:

My music sounds great in project, terrible on DVD (Ulead

http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=114

Audio changes after burning to DVD
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=19090

Please help: Dolby audio from DVD-R distorted
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=23037

All of these threads talk about adjusting things in the video project. But the thing is, regardless of what is in the video source content, if I create a DVD menu with the music that comes with VideoStudio, it sounds distorted on a set-top DVD player!

Does anyone else have the same problem? Any working solutions?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:54 am

I often export my audio tracks from edited Videos prior to rendering them for inclusion into a DVD. I then normalise the audio using the FREE Audio editor Audacity - save the audio file and then replace the one in my video with this new modified one.

You can also do the same with any audio you intend to use as background music for the DVD menus.

This way you can have a DVD containing several titles and the entire item will have a unified sound level. Otherwise you end up with a DVD that is like many of the commercial TV stations where you set the volume control on your TV whilst watching the program and then...... the adverts come on. Mad scramble for the TV remote to turn the volume down or mute it!.