Dolby Digital encoding not working?

toegema · Post by **toegema** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:53 pm

Hi.
My Ulead DVD Moviefactory 6 was not to happy with Win 7, so I downloaded the trial of MF 7.
It runs fine under Win 7, but I cannot install the service packs since it is the trial version.

Problem:
I have a PAL project, a compliant MPEG2 video with MPEG audio.
I make a DVD-Video and if I do nothing special, the DVD is created fine and everything works.
But, I would like to convert the MPEG audio to Dolby Digital without reencoding the video.
In previous versions I could do this: Keep "Don't convert compliant files" ON.
Set a Dolby Digital audio setting in the Audio project settings, and choose "Normalize Audio" at the burn stage. This would reencode audio only to Dolby Digital and leave the video as is.
This seems to happen here in version 7 also, only the result is still MPEG audio wich is silent instead of the expected Dolby Digital.

As I said, I cant install any servicepacks in trial version, and I dont want to buy retail if this doesnt work.
Someone can confirm this what seems to be a bug?
(Ulead/Corel should allow updates to be made to trial versions. If there are bugs, why shouldn't we be allowed to test the trial with those patches in place? Not good for potential sales if you ask me...)

Any answer appretiated.
regards
Terje

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:23 am

I only ever tried to use the "Normalise audio" option once and the audio played up - it was perhaps 18 months 2 years ago so cannot remember the exact problem. Burning it again without the normalize filter checked fixed whatever the problem was.

Is there a reason why you want to convert the audio to Dolby?
Does the MPEG Audio not work?

toegema · Post by **toegema** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:40 am

sjj1805 wrote:I only ever tried to use the "Normalise audio" option once and the audio played up - it was perhaps 18 months 2 years ago so cannot remember the exact problem. Burning it again without the normalize filter checked fixed whatever the problem was.

Is there a reason why you want to convert the audio to Dolby?
Does the MPEG Audio not work?

Hello. Without the "Normalize audio" it works fine.
In version 6 the Normalize button converted the audio to Dolby Digital as expected, but not on version 7.

The reason to convert to Dolby is for compatibility reasons as not all DVD systems in all countries support MPEG audio.