Audio problem with burned DVD

[coleywrx]

Here's my latest problem. I'm trying to burn an avi files into a working DVD. I did the following steps:

1. Ran VDM and extracted the VBR .mp3 audio to a wav file. Disabled the audio and saved the avi video file only using Direct Bitstream.

2. Used BeSweet to convert the .wav file to an .ac3 file. Check the .ac3 file in PowerDVD, played fine.

3. Used TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 to encode the video avi file to a .m2v file.

4. Used TMPGC DVD Author 1.6 to create a DVD file using the .m2v and .ac3 files.

5. Created an ISO file.

6. Burned the ISO file to a DVD+R using DVD Decrypter.

When I put the disc in my set top DVD player (Pioneer Elite DV-45i), I get the perfect picture but no audio. My home theater is very high end, my receiver is the Elite VSX-49Ti, there's nothing it won't play. When I play the DVD with PowerDVD, it works fine. If I open it with DVDShrink, the audio track shows as AC-3 Audio Unspecified and it works fine in the preview.

Any suggestions.

FWIW, I have burned the same disc, skipping the wav to ac3 step and simply using TMPGEnc to encode the audio and video at the same time as .m2v and .mp2 files, that disc works fine in every computer and set top box in my house, including my PS2.

Are there possible some settings in BeSweet that I'm not incorporating properly? I basically just open the BeSweet GUI and selected convert to ac3, picked a spot to save the file and converted.

EDIT: Just to add a little something, the DVD works fine on PS2.

[setarip]

"When I play the DVD with PowerDVD, it works fine."

"the DVD works fine on PS2."

"When I put the disc in my set top DVD player (Pioneer Elite DV-45i), I get the perfect picture but no audio."

Logic would seem to dictate that the problem lies with your standalone DVD player. Have you tried using the remote control to select different audiostreams?

[coleywrx]

Yes, I have. There's only one audio stream available, which shows on my DVD player as Dolby Digital 2 ch. When the disc first starts, it makes a squealing noise for about 2 seconds.

I understand where you're going, but that's not really what I'm looking for. I wondering WHY. I'm not sure if you're familiar with that DVD player, but it's one of the finest that was available a couple years ago. DVD-Audio/SACD capable, back in the day when nothing was.

I'm sure it's a compatibility issue, I'm just trying to find a way to make it compatible.