Can anyone shed some light on...

newUzer wrote on 6/13/2006, 10:45 PM
...the following extension of a former post: My stereo AC3 DVD plays fine in a set top box, but not in WinDVD 6 nor 7 - the audio stops after about 20 seconds. WinDVD 5 works somewhat, but in one scene where some quick motion and loud audio occurs, the audio drops out and then recovers. Interestingly, I used 5.1 audio on a former DVD, and never experienced any problems with WinDVD 6. I used stereo this time because I thought it would simplify my life, but boy was I wrong. I guess what I'm asking is what do you suppose WinDVD is balking at?

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farss wrote on 6/14/2006, 1:06 AM
What is the maximum bitrate setting for your mpeg-2 encode?

Anything over 7.5Mbits/sec can cause problems with some things. As the problem seems to be worse where there's fast motion I'd suspect that's your issue.

Bob.
newUzer wrote on 6/14/2006, 6:35 AM
Strange thing is, though, Windows Media Player (which only works if WinDVD is installed) works without so much as a blip.
farss wrote on 6/14/2006, 6:44 PM
That might have something to do with how much buffering is going on. I'm really guessing but I and others have had issues when the bitrate goes too high and that's on DVDs authored in both DVDA and DVD Studio Pro.
mpeg-2 encoders cheat, you tell them max = 8 and but they seem to treat that as average max i.e. the bitrater can run to 20% over that on peaks.