audio portion stops when playing movie

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audio portion stops when playing movie

The audio portion of my movie stops playing. I have remade the movie and the disc several times. There is no indication, prior to watching it on TV, that there is a problem. The burn is successful and when I open the file the movie plays fine on the computer. I don't know if the way I have made the movie is contributing to the problem. Obviously, I'm new to this so please bear with me if I'm giving too much information. I have a total of four clips (movies?) that I bring into the idvd menu. Three of the clips are based on months throughout the year. The fourth clip is a combination of those three so that I have an undivided movie of the whole year. I guess I'm questioning whether the reuse of the pictures and music make a difference even though they are independent clips.

I'm using imovie and idvd 11.

Do you have any suggestions as to why the music quits and/or how I can solve this most frustrating and time-consuming problem? Thank you.

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 17, 2013 10:57 PM

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Bengt Wärleby

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Jan 17, 2013 11:54 PM in response to apatriot

Hi

No audio on DVD disc.

User uploaded file

Most common origin.

1. Imported audio from iTunes.

• In iTunes copy out as an Audio-CD .aiff (Same as played on standard Stereo CD - no .mp3)

• Use this in Your movie project

2. Low - Free Space on Start-up/Boot/Internal/Mac OS Hard disk makes it hard for iMovie to work as intended.
Down to 1.3 GB and it doesn’t work - especially audio don’t migrate over to Media Browser
(iM’08 & 09)

3. Material in iMovie’08 & 09 - Shared to Media Browser and here selected as Large

large.m4v. It silenced out this project in iDVD. By making a slight alteration - provoking it to ask for a new Share/Publish to Media Browser and here selecting 640x480 - and audio was back when a new iDVD project was created including this movie.

Minuscular - - 176x144

Mobile - - - - - 480x360

Medium - - - - 640x480

Large - - - - - - 720x540 960x540

HD - - - - - - - - 1280x720

4. Strange audio formats like .mp3, .avi etc.

• Change them to .aiff. Use an audio editor like Audacity (free)

5. Main audio is set to off in System Preferences - Does this by it self - Don’t know why

Cheque Audio-Out resp. Audio-In

6. Ed Hanna

Had the same problem; some Googling around gave me a kludgy, but effective fix

Downgrade Perian from recent versions back to version 1.0.

That worked for me, and so far I haven't encountered any deficiencies — except it takes more advanced versions of Perian to enable QuickTime to handle subtitles in .srt format — that I have noticed.

7. GarageBand fix.

In this set audio to 44.1 kHz (Klaus1 suggestion)

(if this don’t work try 48 kHz - me guessing)

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Before burning the DVD.

• Do a DiskImage (File menu and down)

• Double click on the .img file

• Test it with Apple DVD-player

If it’s OK then make Your DVD.

Burn at x1 speed.... (or x4)

• In iDVD 08 - or - 09

• Burn from DiskImage with Apple’s Disk Utilities application

• OR burn with Roxio Toast™ if You got it

Yours Bengt W

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apatriot Author

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Jan 18, 2013 1:05 PM in response to apatriot

Thank you Bengt for your response. I actually did have audio, it was just that it would stop during playback. However, I did find a solution. I did a Repair Disk Permission under Disk Utility and then I slowed the burn speed on idvd to 2x. I suspect the slower burn speed was the solution. In either case, I now have a disc with music playing from start to finish.

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