Sync issues Submenu/Background Audio

Jasonh wrote on 2/17/2006, 11:02 AM

Ok. I made a DVD with the following characteristics. Menu Based DVD. Root Menu has an audio file playing on MP3 format. The movie plays just fine. However when I navigate through the movie using the sub-menus The very first chapter from the sub-menu is distorted. The video and audio is out of sync for 5 seconds. The audio file on the Root Menu is distorted for 5 seconds as well. Other than those two instances there isn't any other problem with the DVD. This distortion and out-of-sync issue happens on my stand-alone DVD and Television set, but does not happen on my computer when I play it using my computer-based DVD. The error happens on two different brands of DVDs that I have.

I am using Pioneer DVD-RW DVR 110D.

Any suggestions?

Comments

ScottW wrote on 2/17/2006, 11:32 AM

Sounds like a problem with your standalone player. The audio on the DVD is not MP3, in the U.S. it's either AC3 or PCM; if you are using DVDAS then it's PCM (since the Studio version doesn't include an AC3 encoder), if you are using DVDA then it is probably AC3. DVDA and DVDAS will both re-encode the MP3 info to the appropriate format.

--Scott

Jasonh wrote on 2/17/2006, 11:45 AM

Thanks. btw. I meant MP3 is format prior to DVD architect rendering it into the format used on DVDs.

ScottW wrote on 2/17/2006, 12:51 PM

One thing you could try - if you have DVD Arch (not studio) and you encoded as AC3 you could try encoding as PCM (or vice-versa) and see if that helps.

Jasonh wrote on 2/17/2006, 2:22 PM

Is there any important differences bteween .ac3 and .wav (pcm) that I should know about?

ScottW wrote on 2/17/2006, 2:32 PM

PCM takes up more space because its not compressed - also PCM would normally be higher quality (again, not compressed).

You can't do 5.1 with PCM, only with Dolby.

Jasonh wrote on 2/17/2006, 3:22 PM

It works. Thanks!