mpeg audio issue

Ballu wrote on 7/5/2006, 8:47 AM
Very new to this so please bear with me, I have just started creating presentations for the company I have just started working for. They have asked me to create DVD’s for presentations purposes.

In a nut shell, I get given the MPEG files (Promotional adverts) and then it’s my job to create a DVD using DVDA, with clear easy to use menus for the presenters to use. My only issue is when I optimise the DVD in DVDA, I get a warning saying that the Audio file has to be compressed. Am I right in thinking I will loose quality in the sound ? If so, what is the correct method for creating such a DVD.

Thanks in advance.

Comments

bStro wrote on 7/5/2006, 12:20 PM
MPEG audio on DVDs is not considered "acceptable" in North America (it can be done, but DVD players here are not required to recognize it), so DVD Architect does not allow for it. It will only produce DVDs with either AC3 or WAV / PCM audio (unless you're using DVD Architect Studio, in which case you're limited to WAV / PCM).

So, what DVDA wants to do is convert the MPEG audio you have into one of the above formats. Personally, I don't think the sound quality will be greatly affected, but if whoever give you these adverts can give you the audio in separate AC3 or WAV files, then that would be the way to go to avoid any recompression.

Rob
TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/5/2006, 8:24 PM
if you convert the audio to WAV, you won't loose anything because the WAV is higher quality (but more space).

you'd have to change the project properties I belive.

But, you shouldn't loose any quality anyway.
Ballu wrote on 7/6/2006, 12:28 AM
Many thanks for your help