background audio for menus
Moderator: Ken Berry
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grayjay
background audio for menus
I have been having trouble with setting up background audio tracks for menus - basically everything looks fine in the preview windows, but once the disc has been burnt, the audio is either fragmented, only plays for a second or two, or disappears altogether. Anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
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Telgaladhion_Greyskye
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grayjay
I'm running Ulead VS9 on a Dell Dimension 3000 with 160Gb of memory and 256 Mb of RAM. The DVD burner is a Philips DVD+-RW DVD8701. I've been succesfully burning MPEG files with wav or wmv audios, and the playback is fine for the actual video, but it is in the menu that I have the problem.
As an example, the project I'm working on at the moment has a main menu and chapter menu, and there are three pages of the chapter menu. I tried 'track 1' for the main menu and 'track 2' for the chapter menu. The first time I burnt a disk, the main menu with track 1 played fine, but the chapter menus background audio kept starting then stopping after a few seconds. I tried again, and this time got nothing. A third attempt left me with the same stop/start on the main menu with track 1, and on pages 1 & 2 of the chapter menu with track 2, but page 3 of the chapter menu with track 2 played perfectly.
I have tried converting the format of the audio, using wav, wmv and mp3, but still get similar results. The discs I have been using are either TDK DVD+RW 4.7 GB 1-4x, or BRTechDVD+R 1-4x.
Any ideas?
As an example, the project I'm working on at the moment has a main menu and chapter menu, and there are three pages of the chapter menu. I tried 'track 1' for the main menu and 'track 2' for the chapter menu. The first time I burnt a disk, the main menu with track 1 played fine, but the chapter menus background audio kept starting then stopping after a few seconds. I tried again, and this time got nothing. A third attempt left me with the same stop/start on the main menu with track 1, and on pages 1 & 2 of the chapter menu with track 2, but page 3 of the chapter menu with track 2 played perfectly.
I have tried converting the format of the audio, using wav, wmv and mp3, but still get similar results. The discs I have been using are either TDK DVD+RW 4.7 GB 1-4x, or BRTechDVD+R 1-4x.
Any ideas?
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Telgaladhion_Greyskye
Download the latest CD/DVD Burning Pack from Ulead's site:
http://www.ulead.com/tech/general/burning_patch.htm
Try using a DVD+/- RW as a test disc so you could erase it and try again if you still get the same result. That way, you'll be saved from having a lot of wasted discs (although you could use 'em as coffee coasters ei?
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Enable 'Buffer underrun protection' on the Burner Advanced Settings, and use the lowest burning speed possible. I also noticed that your RAM is 256mb; closing other apps in the background and unplugging other external devices could help VS9 get that much needed memory. Also try and increase your Virtual Memory.
http://www.ulead.com/tech/general/burning_patch.htm
Try using a DVD+/- RW as a test disc so you could erase it and try again if you still get the same result. That way, you'll be saved from having a lot of wasted discs (although you could use 'em as coffee coasters ei?
)Enable 'Buffer underrun protection' on the Burner Advanced Settings, and use the lowest burning speed possible. I also noticed that your RAM is 256mb; closing other apps in the background and unplugging other external devices could help VS9 get that much needed memory. Also try and increase your Virtual Memory.
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grayjay