reformatted computer now video clips no audio

xtacbyme wrote on 1/19/2007, 2:09 PM

i reformatted my computer reinstalled dvd architect . and need to get my demo disc done by monday.
i made my dvd made asubmenu and put in my 10 video clips(that play back in media center and burn perfectly with nero etc..) when i put the clips into the submenu then preview them some of them the audio track is just a straight line??? there are no peaks when i hit preview the video is flawless but there is no audio??

i have redone the whole project and tested each file in dvd architect as i put them in and the video and audio works. but as i add more files they all show up, video is flawless but audio on some of them just goes away. i have also rendered the project and burnt it. and there is no audio on the dvd either..
i have klmcodec163 on my machine and this codec pack seems to play every imaginable codec out there. am i missing aspecial codec for dvd architect or something??

Please help it would be greatly appreciated. i need to have this dem done by monday sooner preferably.

thanks so much

Comments

ScottW wrote on 1/20/2007, 8:52 AM

First, make sure you are using a DVDA template for rendering and rendering the audio as a seperate file with the same filename (not extension) and in the same directory as the video. You should not render the audio multiplexed with the video in a single file.

Also, make sure you are running the latest version of DVDA (or DVDAS) - click on the downloads link above and verify.

--Scott

MPM wrote on 1/20/2007, 10:27 AM

1st off... If DVDA can't interpret/play some ac3 files, but can handle others, what's different about them? Being able to play something says that the content is there, but doesn't say much about the file itself.

One way to fix it might be to re-render your problem ac3 files in Vegas -- if you haven't got the source audio, convert them back to wav.

Another thing to try is fixing your problem ac3 files using one of the utilities available at videohelp &/or doom9.org.

Yet another option might be to try and restore your windows install to the way it was before re-formatting, *IF* all the ac3 files worked in DVDA previously. IMHO codec packs can be almost evil for anything more than playback. Without a very long explanation, it could be DVDA isn't finding what it needs to handle some of the ac3 files.

Finally, and as a means to get your project done -- not fix any problems -- take your rendered DVDA layout, and using VOBBlanker replace the problem VOBs with versions done using Muxman. The replacing itself is quick and straight-forward, detailed in more than a few guides. You will need to feed Muxman a std mpg2 video-only stream (.m2v) along with the corresponding ac3 file, and create a DVD layout for each problem video, of course making sure the results do play properly. Then once everything is put together in VOBBlanker, test it & burn away.

xtacbyme wrote on 1/25/2007, 3:19 PM

well i figured it out my program i use for my wedding vids saved the files to mpeg layer 2... dvd architect can't play\render these(audio in the vid)???? i'm going to have to use tmpgenc to convert all my files to pcm???