DVD-A Project - No Audio?

Nifty schrieb am 07.10.2003 um 10:09 Uhr
My first DVD project... I have a Sony DCRTRV950 NTSC Camera. I captured the footage. I then rendered to avi PAL-DV. I then used VV4 to edit the PAL avi, addng markers and rendered to MPEG2.
I created a project in DVD-A, but after burning there is no audio, and the DVD will only play on PC, but starts from chapter6?!? I had a look at the prep project and noted there was no audio. Preview in DVD-A suggested audio was fine.
I have tried re-rendering, seprating video and audio, burning a plain media DVD, and recreating the original DVD-A project. Everything previews fine, but no audio when preparing to burn?!?
Anyone?... help!

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SonyEPM schrieb am 07.10.2003 um 15:40 Uhr
If you render out the audio separately, as either .wav or .AC3, marry that back with the video in DVDA and reburn...does your DVD now have audio?

What DVD player(s) are you using?
Nifty schrieb am 08.10.2003 um 09:23 Uhr
No it does not... I seperated the audio to AC3, the project still comes up with no audio. The DVD Burner I have is a Sony DRU510.
The burner is probably not the problem the TS_Audio folder has nothing in it after preparing the project.
I tried playback on the Sony burner, and also on my Phillips
farss schrieb am 08.10.2003 um 10:37 Uhr
The Audio_TS folder will having nothing in it as far as I know, I'm assuming that's where things like music compilations go. The audio for the video is muxed into the mpeg stream in the Video_TS folder.

When you go to optimise DVD prior to burning does it say there that audio is OK?

I've made heaps of DVDs with DVDA and DRU500, don't imagine DRU510 is much different and never had this problem.

If the mpg file and the ac3 or wav file have the same names DVDA will pick up the audio automatically. But I guess you must have got past this point or you wouldn't get any audio on preview.

Can I suggest putting all the files you need by themselves in a separate folder, seems that preview may be doing something that the comilation program is missing.

Once you've compiled the files for the DVD you can rename the VOB files to .mpg and play them to see if there's audio present or you can win WinDVD to play from the HD by forcing it to open the folder. At least this will stop you wasting disks and save some time while you sort out the problem
Nifty schrieb am 08.10.2003 um 15:04 Uhr
Thanks farss, It is a handy thing to know. I suspected the folder TS_Audio was for seperate audio tracks.
It does say there is audio prior to burning.
The thing I also find strange is that the DVD , when burnt will only play from chapter 6 or so. It drops the first 5 chapters. Even if I select an earlier chapter from the scene selection menu I created, it plays from chapter 6. If I select a chapter beyond 6, it plays from the correct location. The markers were created in VV and included in the render.
Is anyone aware of a limit to the number of markers/chapters one can use in VV and DVD-A. I have 13.
I have just finished checking the VOB files. There is no audio?!?
The whole of the video is contained in the files though. Is it typical for footage to be split into two files? I would have thought the junction between the two files to be scheduled at a marker. Does this cause any issues during playback.
And, if the VOB fiiles are complete, why can I not playback the first 6 chapters (without audio) or so?
This ain't making any sense.
Any ideas anyone???