DVD Lab Pro and Audio Output problems

[nzjacob]

Hi everyone, had a look around the forums and the net, but this ones confussing the hell out of me.

My best mate got married last year, and I offered to take all the DV cam footage from the wedding and build a little DVD for his family.

I brought all the footage into Sony Vegas, and did the editing etc. I then use Canopus to convert to PAL MPG2 with 224kbs MPG2 Audio. I have done this a million time (well . . . baybee 100) and no problems. Drop the output into TMPG DVD Author and it encodes sweet. Burn it and it plays back even better.

For this porject, I decided to go the whole 9 yards, and purchased DVD LAB Pro. I have created the project fine, DVD Lab brings in all the elements fine, and even compiles fine. I did demux my inputs to *.mpv and *mpa - maybee that was wrong ?

The resulting output plays 100% on my PC, but not on my standalone players. I have noticed that the Audio tracks on the compiled DVD are all LPCM 224k - when my input was MPG2 224K.

Am I missing a setting in DVD Lab to leave the audio as MPG2 ?

I have checked, and the audio should all be DVD complient. I loaded one of the Canopus outputs into TMPGENC DVD Authour and it created a simple DVD fine.

I am pretty new to DVD LAB, and I have searched around for an answer, but it elludes me thus far. I havn't tried converting the *.mpa files that DVD Lab created when it inputted the canopus output yet, but I dont see why I would have to.

Any and all help appreciated.

[mudda_t]

The resulting output plays 100% on my PC, but not on my standalone players...
You might not know this but mpa/mp2 isn't dvd compliant (most standalones will play anyway) only ac3 and pcm are truely dvd compliant. Maybe your player doesn't accept mpa/mp2, i've come across a handfull of players that don't support it.

[nzjacob]

I got it all working sweet. Had to convert all of the mpa audio to mp2 using ffmpeggui. Even converted the wav for the slideshow to mp2.

Kept everything in the same VTS, as DLP will convert the slideshow pictures to the same format as the other video in the VTS for you.

Once it had finished compiling, I used the IFO edit option in DLP tools menu to set audio to mpa using the quick mpa option. Initially it did this at 20bps, but I changed it to 16bps. At 20bps, there was a slight bump in the audio during the slideshows as the images changed. At 16bps this was solved.

I want to thank everyone here and over at Digital Video Forums who provided suggestions. I guess the problem was related to the audio headers in the demuxed audio or something ???

From now on I will be creating any audio streams using ffmpeggui from the source mpg that canopus created.

Anyway hopefully this post will be found by people looking to solve similar issues in the future.

[reboot]

You should have gone to AC3 and left it there. :)