no audio on burnt dvd??

[jackobean50]

i burned a dvd using an external dvd burner with my mac. i burned it using toast 6 titanium and it was edited in final cut pro 4 with the audio in AIFF format. it played back fine on any mac computers but when i went to go play it in my home dvd player there was no audio. now, i'm not sure if this is because i have to somehow do the audio and video separately or because of the audio format or what? pllleeeease help!

[Experi-Mentor]

welcome to the forum

looks like you're dvd player needs to have the audio setup correctly.

[setarip]

"with the audio in AIFF format."

I'm fairly sure that AIFF is NOT one of the acceptable audio formats in DVD standards. It should be either .AC3, LPCM stereo, or DTS...

[blutach]

As setarip has speculated, the standard for audio in DVD-Video does not include AIFF.

Setarip has said, however, that an audio stream can be one of either AC-3 (Dolby), LPCM or DTS. This is not true. If a DTS stream is included, there is a requirement for AC-3 as well (sometimes also PCM is there, too).

SDDS is another optional format (not widely seen).

However, it is possible for a PAL disk to only have MPEG audio (hardly ever seen) whereas an NTSC disk MUST have at least AC-3 or PCM audio on at least 1 title.

Here is the spec, out of the horse's mouth.

This is quite a complicated area - but essentially, you will need to convert your AIFF to, something like AC-3. Try BeSweet - see my signature.

Regards