Missing audio on 5 out of 16 clips through DVDAuthor? What am I doing wrong?

[charley cheswick]

Hi,
I followed a guide to using TMPGENC DVDAuthor by Baldrick which steps you through ripping chapters from movies with DVD Shrink to the Hard drive. Then demuxing those clips with rejig and loading those into DVDAuthor, creating menus and then outputting the finished product.
The trouble is that I have no sound on 5 out of the 16 titles I have created. The ones with no sound will show there is a dolby digital track on the information for that clip in Powerdvd. It is the same when I burned the project to disc and played on my Toshiba ,no sound!
I also tried demuxing these clips through DVDecrypter with the same result.
The clips are form
Jurrassic Park
Gone in 60 seconds
The Shadow
Desperado
True Lies.
Wht are some working and others not?
Please help. It is very frustrating.
Thanks
Damien

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[Pyscrow]

First if you still have the DVDshrink rip, play them from your hard drive to ensure that you still have sound, you may have accidently unticked the relevant sound box when ripping them.

If they have no sound re-rip them with DVD Decrypter and see if you do any better.

If they have sound after the rip, but not after the re-authoring then
1. Check to see if it is the whole DVD that has no sound, or just segments.

If it is only segments, try adding those segments into TMPGenc DvdAuthor as seperate tracks, or make sure you always tick the "re-encode" audio box.

If it is the whole DVD, then I am only guessing, maybe the particular audio format is not supported by your version of the software.

[charley cheswick]

I do have sound after I rip the clip with DVD Shrink because I can hear it using Powerdvd. It is only after I put it through DVDAuthor that I lose the audio.

[Clearline]

Dvd Author can not read the audio track of most files, where you have edited (cut) in shrink.

If you have files, where TDA can not read the audio, use a program to demux the files, then use TDA to load the video and sound seperate.

I would avoid editing in shrink, and just do that in TDA, then you can compress your compilation after and not have to do any demuxing.

My system:
Decryptor: to iso
Shrink: Reauthor: (remove tracks, subtitles, keeping only what I want)
TDA: Edit clips, set chapters, fill in track titles in menu mode, compile.
Shrink: Full (open folder): Compress file to DVD size (sharp), to an iso file
Decryptor: Burn ISO

You can inspect your compilation with shrink, before compressing, just by doing a fast scroll through the videos.
You can also inspect the final iso before burning (to make sure compression didn't screw it up) or just burn to a re-writable to test it.

If you have limited room on your HD, at each step you can inspect the files generated, to ensure their integrity. If the files are good, then you can delete the files from the earlier step.