Help -- Linking MPEG2 & AC3 with only one menu button

tartaruga wrote on 12/21/2004, 3:29 PM
How to you insert the AC3 audio and the MPEG2 video
on your menu? When I insert both media files I have 2 button/texts.

If I delete one button/text, so I will only have one button displaying,
then I lose that part of the media for my DVD movie (i.e. video or audio).

So how do you import both files: AC3 audio and the MPEG2 video in your menu format correctly?

I was overlapping them, one on top of the other, so it would appear I only had one button. But after I burn the DVD, only the audio is playing on my TV's DVD player--no video!

What is the correct way to do this. I have checked the manual, but it doesn't seem to address this.

Thanks to anyone who can help.

Comments

ScottW wrote on 12/21/2004, 4:37 PM
If the files are named the same and live in the same directory, then DVDA will bring in the AC3 automatically when you bring in the movie. If for some reason it doesn't, navigate into the movie and on the properties page for the movie, specify the audio file.
TielBr wrote on 12/22/2004, 12:59 AM
I get this too... My understanding is that DVDA is not smart enough to associate audio aotomatically to video that has the M2V file extention. I'll bet that's what you used, right?

I noticed this when I began creating elementary streams. I think the M2V is either denoting "MPEG 2 Video"(i.e. no audio) or MPEG 2Pass VBR. I started both processes at about the same time,... not sure which it is, but it's completely compatible.
ScottW wrote on 12/22/2004, 6:11 AM
If you are getting M2V files it means you are using the wrong template to render - you're using the DVD NTSC (or PAL) template and not the DVD Architect NTSC (or PAL) template. The M2V extension means that it's an elementary stream - nothing more, it has nothing to do with whether you do CBR or VBR encoding.

However, I believe you're correct about the file associations - DVDA doesn't manage to figure out the correct file association for M2V and AC3 files so you need to do it manually.