No sound on movie after burning DVD

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No sound on movie after burning DVD

After creating a new DVD project, adding movies (mpeg files) to it and customizing the menu screen, when I preview it everything works fine but when I burn it to the DVD then put the completed DVD into my home DVD player the menu comes up and everything seems to be working fine and I then select a movie to play it transitions to the movie and it plays on the screen but I have no audio what-so-ever. I looked on Apple's support page and downloaded the latest updates and tried burning the project (and other projects) to a new DVD and the same thing keeps happening. I am running a MacBook Pro 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 160 GB HD, 2 GIG RAM, Superdrive running OSX 10.5.2 Leopard. Is anyone else out there experiencing the same or similar problems? Hopefully someone out there can assist me with this problem.

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MacBook Pro 15" 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on May 4, 2008 7:02 PM

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Answer 1

May 4, 2008 7:27 PM in response to KBottlz

I think the standard advice is to burn a disc image, rather than burning directly to a blank DVD. Then play the disc image with the Apple DVD Player to verify that the audio is working. If it is, then you can burn the disc image to a DVD, using the Apple Disc Utility. You may also have better results burning at 4X, rather than a higher speed. Another factor may be the brand of DVD you're using - Verbatim is often recommended, as well as a couple of others I can't think of right now.

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Answer 2

May 10, 2008 2:27 AM in response to schoolfordolphins

Just to add to school's excellent advice:

The option is 'save as disc image' found in iDVD under 'File'

I would also use DVD-R disks. Good brands are : Verbatim, Maxell, Taio Yuden (not sure of exact spelling on that one) Fuji. Memorex has not been good for many of us, and don't use cheap off-brand disks.

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Answer 3

May 11, 2008 1:00 PM in response to KBottlz

HI,
I had the similar problem, except after starting the DVD the sound was there only in first 45 seconds and then there is no sound in the rest of the video. I'll try these instructions to see if that works. Please follow up, so we can compare new results.

Thanks.

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Answer 4

May 26, 2008 9:01 AM in response to disciplin

I have the same issue. i tried deleting the encoding assets and reburning (both the disk and 2.5 hours of my time) to the same result: movie starts up, but with no audio.

i removed the quicktime components as mentioned in some help sessions. Does anybody here have a solution? seems to me Idvd ***** without the ability to play sound on the DVD.

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Answer 5

May 26, 2008 9:07 AM in response to ghatchette

I forgot to add..i burned the first movie from iDVD, the second from a disk image. both with the same result.

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May 26, 2008 11:58 AM in response to ghatchette

I'm having the same issue. I preview the DVD and get everything fully-functional. I imported movies as .mp4 files into iMovie, made a movie then exported to iDVD. I always make a disc image first. When I view the image's AUDIO_TS folder there is nothing in it. All the files are under the VIDEO_TS. I have 31Gb free space so I'm certain I have enough space. Just last weekend this was all working fine. Please, someone help!

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Answer 7

May 27, 2008 3:25 AM in response to UhJoe

Are you using iMovie 6 or 8?

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Answer 8

May 27, 2008 3:58 AM in response to Beverly Maneatis

SOLVED:

DOWNLOAD MPEG STREAMCLIP. I EXPORTED THE FILE (WHICH WAS MPEG 1 MUXED) TO QUICKTIME FORMAT (MOV). THIS ENABLED QUICKTIME TO OPEN THE FILE WITH SOUND (WHICH I WAS ORIGINALLY UNAWARE THAT IT COULDN'T PLAY SOUND FROM MPEG1 MUXED FORMAT).

LOADED THE .MOV FORMAT INTO IDVD, HAVE HAD NO PROBLEMS. BEST OF ALL, MPEG STREAMCLIP IS FREE. I'M BUSY CONVERTING ALL OF MY FILES RIGHT NOW.

(SORRY FOR THE CAPS LOCK...)

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Answer 9

May 27, 2008 6:56 PM in response to ghatchette

That's why I asked which version of iMovie you are using. iMovie 6 can accept only .dv format, so you need to convert all the others. Streamclip is a great way to do this!

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