pcm complient audio

trodgers wrote on 8/16/2006, 11:23 AM

I have been rendering video using the Vegas mepg 2 template "DVD NTSC" and using that in DVDA. DVD has had to rerender the mepg 2 audio before making the vob files. The other day I had nero create a mepg2 file and when I put it into DVDA it did not have to rerender it mepg audio file. I did notice that vegas' mepg 2 had a mepg 2 audio but the nero version was just a mepg audio file and that vob files also just have a mepg audio file is there a way to duplicate that so I can skip the mepg 2 audio recompression.

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ScottW wrote on 8/16/2006, 11:55 AM

MPEG2 audio isn't part of the DVD spec in the US. Your choices are AC3 or PCM (DTS is optional). So, you should no be rendering your audio with your MPEG video. Use the DVD Architect template to render just the video then render the audio seperately as AC3 or PCM. If the filenames are the same and in are in the same directory, then DVDA will automatically find the audio when you bring the video into your project.

By rendering the audio seperately, DVDA will have it in the correct form needed, and thus will not need to demux, recompress and remux it.

--Scott