No Sound DVD-Video (MPEG-3 48kHz 16bit Stereo ONLY)

[rivermeadow]

HELP. I'm using Moviefactory 4.02 (Update Pack 2) on Window Media Center 2005 all updates installed, brand new computer using ATI Radeon 9600 All-in-wonder video card, P4 2.4B, ASUS P4PE.

I'm creating a DVD using 4 video clips. 1 clip worked fine (compressed fine and no problem hearing sound). 3 clips compressed fine, but NO sound. The sound worked fine while editing and previewing in moviefactory (as well as in Microsoft Media player), but did not show up in the ISO file, nor in the temporary directories, nor on the standalone DVD player after burning the disc.

The clip that worked fine was MPEG3 130kBit/s 48000Hz Stereo (Xvid MPEG-4 Codec 16 bits, 640x368, 25fps).

The clips that had NO SOUND were all MPEG3 48000kHz 16Bit Stereo (Xvid MPEG-4 Codec 24 bits 640x368, 25fps).

Moviefactory4 settings were to convert to MPEG audio 224kbps MPEG2 48KHz Stereo (DVD-VR compliant Variable 3000kbps NTSC DVD Quality 70 24bit 720x480 29.97fps)(Do not convert compliant MPEG files was UNCHECKED).

What am I doing wrong (or should I wait for another patch)?
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More info: Using the original (non patched) moviefactory, in the DMF_TEMP/Convert directory, 4 compressed mpegs were created for video, and 4 smaller mpegs for audio. 3 of these "audio" mpegs had NO SOUND, while the 4th was fine.

With the latest 4.02 patch, only 4 mpegs were created in the (DMF_TEMP/Convert) directory, 3 have only video with NO SOUND, while the 4th has both video and sound.

GSPOT identified that all 4 original clips used AVI Splitter, MPEG Layer-3 Decoder DirectSound Device (and DivX Decoder Filter 4cc:XVID) to decode.

GSPOT identified that all 4 CONVERTED clips used CyberLink Audio Decoder (ATI) (Ulead DVD Video decoder2) to decode and render, but that the format was unsupported (???) by GSPOT.

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What do I do next?

[Emric]

HELP. I'm using Moviefactory 4.02 (Update Pack 2) on Window Media Center 2005 all updates installed, brand new computer using ATI Radeon 9600 All-in-wonder video card, P4 2.4B, ASUS P4PE.

I'm creating a DVD using 4 video clips. 1 clip worked fine (compressed fine and no problem hearing sound). 3 clips compressed fine, but NO sound. The sound worked fine while editing and previewing in moviefactory (as well as in Microsoft Media player), but did not show up in the ISO file, nor in the temporary directories, nor on the standalone DVD player after burning the disc.

The clip that worked fine was MPEG3 130kBit/s 48000Hz Stereo (Xvid MPEG-4 Codec 16 bits, 640x368, 25fps).

The clips that had NO SOUND were all MPEG3 48000kHz 16Bit Stereo (Xvid MPEG-4 Codec 24 bits 640x368, 25fps).

Moviefactory4 settings were to convert to MPEG audio 224kbps MPEG2 48KHz Stereo (DVD-VR compliant Variable 3000kbps NTSC DVD Quality 70 24bit 720x480 29.97fps)(Do not convert compliant MPEG files was UNCHECKED).

What am I doing wrong (or should I wait for another patch)?
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More info: Using the original (non patched) moviefactory, in the DMF_TEMP/Convert directory, 4 compressed mpegs were created for video, and 4 smaller mpegs for audio. 3 of these "audio" mpegs had NO SOUND, while the 4th was fine.

With the latest 4.02 patch, only 4 mpegs were created in the (DMF_TEMP/Convert) directory, 3 have only video with NO SOUND, while the 4th has both video and sound.

GSPOT identified that all 4 original clips used AVI Splitter, MPEG Layer-3 Decoder DirectSound Device (and DivX Decoder Filter 4cc:XVID) to decode.

GSPOT identified that all 4 CONVERTED clips used CyberLink Audio Decoder (ATI) (Ulead DVD Video decoder2) to decode and render, but that the format was unsupported (???) by GSPOT.

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What do I do next?

Hello Rivermeadow, sorry I'm very new to this board and I was just curseing after obtaining a copy of Movie factory 3 from a friend of mine who has upgraded to movie factory 4.

Anyway I just discoevered the same problem when doing some reencoding of old videos. The problem is that MF-3 and 4 (apparently) does not recognize all the audio codec's and your going to need to strip and reformate the audio files.

I used 2 programs to do this one is Audio Converter, the other is VirtualDub.

Using VD I seprated the sound and avi files by
1. Click Start -> Open Video File -> (locate your file and open it. You will get a error warning about the unrecognized sound format ignore it and continue)

2. Go to Video and select "direct stream copy", then go to Audio and select "no Audio"

3. Now goto file and select "SAVE as AVI" choose a file and make sure that it is saving as a AVI format, press the enter key and it should extract the video without reprocessing or without the sound

4. Now for the sound, we want to do the same thing in reverse so go to Audio and select "Source Audio" and then select "direct stream copy" (also under the Audio header)

5. go to file and select save WAV give it the same name as the AVI file and save it in the same place.

Down-load and install a copy of "Audio Converter" once its installed go select files into the conversation que, locate the directory where you saved the avi and wav files and locate the wav file there, move it to the conversation que and click on done, click on the set up button and make sure sterio and 44100 have been selected click ok and then click the little play arrow button, it will covert the file to the new format and save it in its own directory, go tot hat directory and right click on the file and select copy, go to where you saved your origional avi and wav files and select past it will ask you to overwrite the wav file say yes and continue.

ok we now have a nice new audio format and we need to recombine the 2 into a readable format for MF3, we can do that in virtualdub so open virtual dub again and select

File -> open video file find the origional avi file and open it
now go Audio -> WAV audio follow by Audio -> full processing mode, then go audio compression and make sure that you've select the compression your going to use in my case thats mpeg layer-3 48kbits. You might have different requirements to me.

finally go file -> save as avi and give it a new name.

record it in MF3

Once again I'm new started reading this today and I'm a little disappointed people didn't help you out

[Ron P.]

Add me to this list, of No Audio on DVD.

I just finished a project everything including sound was fine.
Captured Betamax through my Sony TRV-120 as DV-AVI.
Edited, cutting some, added titles and transitions.
Rendered to
NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
MPEG files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
Lower Field First
(DVD-NTSC), 4:3
Video data rate: 8000 kbps
Audio data rate: 224 kbps
MPEG audio layer 2, 48 KHz, Stereo

In MF4 (with all latest patches) had Do not convert if MPEG compliant.

The clips (4) totaling 3.5gig played in MF4 preview including sound.
I created ISO, and Video file before attempting to burn to disc.
I did notice that when I tried to open the Video TS file using ULead DVD Player I get the unrecognized file type error. All of the VOB files will play with sound.

So for now I'm going to blame a corrupt or faulty Video TS for no sound on the disc. I'll be redoing it and see if that's the problem...

Regards
Ron

[Ron P.]

Ok so that didn't work, (See above post).

I can't figure this one out. I can play the DVD on my PC and the audio track is there, no matter which program I use, Ulead's, WinDVD or WM Player. However when I play the DVD on my Settop player (Sony SLV-D350P) the background audio for the menu plays but the audio track for the video is gone.

I have even tried using WinDVD to create a disc, and still no audio on the video track.

Next I reloaded the project file, and re-rendered a movieclip, NTSC-DVD...
Still no audio (just on the video track when played on my Sony DVD player).
I've even checked the Audio setup for my Sony player and it is setup correctly.

I have burned discs using VS9 and MF4. Both have all the latest patches. I still get the same results.
So how is it, that the DVD plays fine on my PC and the audio is gone when I play it on my DVD player (Sony)?


Well while posting this, I had an idea, a lightbulb flashed into my small brain... I went back and switched the 2 audio cables on my player. I would not imagine that having them in a different order could affect it the way it has. I would think that the left and right just would be reversed, BUTnot so...I swapped them and now the DVD plays the audio...