AC3 file have clicks and pops in a silent part?!?

[arminio]

When I encode 6 WAVs to 5.1 or two mono (or one stereo WAV from which I made 6 mono wavs for 5.1 mix) into AC3 2.0 (even with a diferent AC3 encoders) I keep having pops and clicks in a silent part of audio! Preciselly, pops and clicks occurs at the places where audio comes from silece or where audio stops before silence...
WAV file is normalized to 80%, not loud, there is no clipping or any anomaly and it plays well on PC - source, all 6 wavs separatelly and mixed in Audition and even 5.1 and 2.0 AC3 files on PC sound perfect. On standalone DVD player in 5.1 or via TV speakers, pops and clicks occurs in AC3 2.0, 5.1 and even in plain WAV file authored on DVD!

Tried Scenarist AC3Enc, latest BeSweet, Sonic AC3 encoder... same problem at the same places... :(

Any ideas what this might be and how to solve? Where is the problem in WAV that it produces pop's and clicks on standalone player while PC produce fine playback?

[Mug Funky]

make and model of standalone player? this smacks of a hardware specific problem to me. at the very least try it on another standalone to eliminate that as an option.

remember that commercial ac3 encoders are dolby certified... meaning that any compliant decoder should have no problems (assuming dolby care much about their brand).

also, give aften a try for encoding if you can spare another disc...

[arminio]

"Prehistoric old" ;) Cyberhome ADM512

I just tested problematic audio on 2 other different DVD players - and no clicks!
Looks like it really is DVD player problem - but only with this, my AC3... everything else (original discs and other mine movies with AC3 I previosuly encoded the same way and with the same encoders) are OK!?! :confused:
It is obvious that audio stream has some problem that messup with decoder in my DVD player... If I just can figure out what cause this... :(

[jruggle]

If you can upload a small snippet of the part that's causing problems I can take a look at it for you. I'm working on an AC3 frame analyzer which isn't ready for release yet, but I might be able to use it to pinpoint your problem.

[jolson]

Have you tried just doing:

BeSweet.exe -core( -input in.ac3 -output out.ac3 -payload -logfile info.log )

?