Hello, I made a collection DVD with two full length movies and three cartoon episodes (23minutes runtime each). These were all in .avi format. The resulting DVD plays well on my DVD player and all videos work fine except for one movie where the audio is garbled (and also sped up). Why do you think this happened? All the other movies are alright. I played the DVD on my PC (with the latest VLC player) and it is still the same. The original .avi file is fine, however. The applications I used are as follows- ConvertXtoDVD 4 to convert .avi files IMGburn to burn the DVD files Total size of the resulting DVD was 3.9GB. (DVD-5) Please tell me what I should do to correct this as I am planning to burn another collection DVD that will include three movies and two cartoon episodes. Thanks in advance and regards.
First thing I'd try is to encode the offending file again by itself to your HDD but don't burn, just see if the encoded file plays fine or if the problem is farther along. Doubt this has any bearing on anything but what media and burning speed are you using?
Hello, Thanks for your reply. I use Imation DVD+Rs (made in India as there are nothing else here) and the speed is set to auto (I used IMGburn for this particular disc). I still had the 'VIDEO_TS' folder in my HDD, so using VLC I played the playable files. The other stuff worked fine, but this movie had the garbled audio. I'll try this out and post back. Regards.
If nothing else is available, try 4x or 8x as the burning speed next time. A good rule of thumb is to burn at 1/2 the rated speed of the media. You can also look into using DVD Flick or Av2DVD, both free. If it plays garbled on your HDD, it's not the encoder, G Spot is a free DVD info program and will give the audio specs for one that does play and the one that doesn't. Edit: should have clarified, next time and the programs were just an FYI, not for these files, sometimes I know what I mean and expect that others will too and don't realize how things sound.
If the audio is bad on the output files that ConvertX saved on the HDD, then it lets the burner off the hook. I would recode the one AVI and if it's still bad, check the AVI audio type - perhaps save it as an uncompresed wav using VirtualDub, then loading it back in and saving with the video as MP3 with CBR - not sure if ConvertX will accept a wav for the audio stream.
Thanks for replying, Mistycat & Attar! I will first check the audio codec of this movie and compare it to the other avi movies I included in my DVD. I was also in a hurry to burn this DVD so I only lightly checked the converted stuff before burning, if I had checked it thoroughly I would've come across this! Regards.
