UVS9 - No Sound

[Humble1]

I recently moved up from UVS7SE, which worked OK, to UVS9.
When I view the video in the viewer in the "Create a Disk" area everything is AOK. I complete the disk creation and have no sound... video is fine.

I selected "Normalize Audio" and no help. There are several other audio related options that I do not undertsand so this post.

I am playing the DVD-R on a JVC VHS/DVD combo player

Suggestions anyone?

Thank you.

[Ken Berry]

Can you post the properties of the video you burned to disc, plus the properties of the template you used to burn it.

Have you tried playing your DVD on acomputer player, and if so, do you get audio on it? (I ask because some stand-alone DVD players, particularly the more expensive brand name ones, have problems with home made DVDs.)

Also, if you, for instance, are in an NTSC country and used MPEG audio on your disc, then again quite a few DVD NTSC players may not play it because MPEG audio is not part of the NTSC DVD standard. If you did, in fact, use MPEG audio, then try using VS9's Dolby AC-3 audio compression which has a similarly small footprint to that of MPEG audio.

[Humble1]

I cannot play my DVDs on my computer due to my browser asking for a DVD converter. I have not acquired one as yet.

I have used my vhs/dvd VCR up until this point quite successfully. My current vhs/dvd VCR is new and I went from a unit that played dvd+r to one recording/playing dvd-r. It has played a dvd-r that I made but not with UVS9.

Also commercial dvds play quite well. I gather that they are somehow immune to the +/- distinction that computer generated dvds have to conform to.

Here are the various property settings. I had the relevant project (.vsp) loaded in. All are the default settings.

Project Template properties:
NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
MPEG files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
Upper Field First
(DVD-NTSC), 4:3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 2499 kbps)
Audio data rate: 224 kbps
MPEG audio layer 2, 48 KHz, Stereo


MPEG properties for file conversion:
MPEG files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
Lower Field First
(DVD-NTSC), 4:3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 8000 kbps)
Audio data rate: 256 kbps
Dolby Digital Audio, 48 KHz, 2/0(L,R)

Disc Template Manager:
MPEG files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
(DVD-NTSC), 4:3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 7000 kbps)
Audio data rate: 256 kbps
Dolby Digital Audio, 48 KHz, 2/0(L,R)

Thanks again.