Silent Periods in Recorded DVD-R

[norm1153]

Greetings!

I'm using DVD-Lab for authoring. The video works fine out of Adobe mpeg Encoder. The .WAV audio coming out of Premiere I encode to .ac3 using a standalone encoder. I set it for 2/0 (L,R), at 192 kbps. DVD-Lab accepts it fine.

The resulting DVD-R plays in my Sony set, however there are evenly-spaced silent periods of about 15 seconds, through the whole movie.

I did have the data rate far too high, at 384 kbps, and since lowered it to the 192 rate.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Could there be a problem in DVD-lab, or a setting I am missing in there?

Thanks,

Norm

[bb]

Welcome to the forum.

I'm not sure what your problem is, but do you have the same effect when encoding @ 224kbps?

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[norm1153]

Greetings!

Yes, in fact the first time I tried it, data rate was at 384 kbps, which I understand is not needed for straight 2 channel ac3. Now I am at 192 kbps.

The same thing occurred in both cases. I'm also thinking of getting a plugin encoder for Premiere; the price has been dropped in half.

Thanks,
Norm

[bb]

Which standalone encoder did you use?

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[malum]

1) do you need to compress it to ac3 for space reasons?
if not just transcode the wav to 48khz
2) I use Besweet for wav to ac3 and vice versa and have never had the problem you describe, so you might want to try that.

[norm1153]

I use Sonic Foundry's standalone encoder.

I've downloaded and tried Mediachance's version of TMPGenc, and this works just fine. The disc plays OK.

So maybe the Sonic encoder is suspect here, for some reason. Same settings, though.

In any event, by default, the problem is solved.

Thanks for your replies!

BTW, the Sonic encoder isn't available any more. Maybe there was a reason... I got it from a friend of mine who did tourist videos until last year.


Norm