Kdvd burns with no sound?
 

hi there,
this situation is getting frustrating...o.k so i ripped with smart ripper fram served it with dvd2avi then encoded tmpgenc with the kdvd template(full) then i author it with dvdit ...up untill this point everything seems to be working fine...however after i burn it...the video is great ...but there is NO SOUND. i also tried authoring programs like ULEAD movie factory...still NO SOUND....
is there some sort of tweeking that i need to do with the tmpgenc settings for the kdvd template....
any suggestions? ideas?

Hi john111,

Did you convert the audio in your authoring program to .mp2?
Or in DVDit, you must set "Convert all audio to dolby digital". Not PCM, which is the default.

-kwag

update
 

well i tried what you said and it still didn't work...but then i discovered something interesting...the mpeg file that i was trying to burn didn't have any sound even before i burned it. so i think it might have something to do with the way i fram served it. i use dvd2avi...i just used all the default settings but i guess thats not the way to go...can you recommend the best settings that would go well with the kdvd template...one setting in particular caught my eye...the demux vs. decoding...it was set on decoding before...should i set it on demux?

Re: update
 

Use "demux" so that you "extract" the ac3 audio file. Then use Headac3he to encode the ac3 to mp2.

-kwag

i got it to work
 

hey thanks for the tips...the demux worked great...however i couldn't get the headac3 program to encode all the way through...it usually stops after about 20-25 minutes with an error message saying something like it couldn't decode to the output destination or something like that...so i just renamed the ac3 to a wav and encoded it in tmpgenc...worked fine...
is there a benifit for doing the audio in headac3...?