No Sound Recorded

[geskel]

When I played back a "toasted" DVD that included two WMV videos, there was no sound. I opened the disk and noted that the "Audio_TS" folder was empty.

 

Is WMV not compatible with Toast? If not, what audio codecs are?

[pseudonym]

Try DivXWMAConverter:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19676

 

This has worked for me in a few cases where something about the sound track was not what QT/Perian/Flip4Mac was expecting.

I seem to recall that it might have involved video clips from one of those "Flip Video Cams".

 

You can process your original video with DivXWMAConverter first (try it even if it is not a DivX file), and then use the "fixed" file in your Toast project.

[geskel]

Try DivXWMAConverter:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19676

 

This has worked for me in a few cases where something about the sound track was not what QT/Perian/Flip4Mac was expecting.

I seem to recall that it might have involved video clips from one of those "Flip Video Cams".

 

You can process your original video with DivXWMAConverter first (try it even if it is not a DivX file), and then use the "fixed" file in your Toast project.

 

 

Thanks, pseudonym, for your input.

 

The whole idea here is not to have to "fix" anything before Toast goes to work. I already have a solution for that by transcoding WMV to AVI.

 

However, those videos came out so washed out in Toast that I've decided to go back to iDVD. So this problem has pretty much become moot.

 

 

 

[tsantee]

There are several things at work here. First, there never is anything in an AUDIO_TS folder. The audio is multiplexed with the video in the VOBs in the VIDEO_TS folder. Second, go to perian.org to download and install the appropriate version of the perian codec. This should fix the no-sound problem when you re-do the project with Toast. Third, wmv is not supported for encoding with Toast unless you have purchased one of the packages from flip4mac.com. The free flip4mac player does not support having wmv files re-encoded to other formats, so you must have one of the purchased versions.

[geskel]

There are several things at work here. First, there never is anything in an AUDIO_TS folder. The audio is multiplexed with the video in the VOBs in the VIDEO_TS folder. Second, go to perian.org to download and install the appropriate version of the perian codec. This should fix the no-sound problem when you re-do the project with Toast. Third, wmv is not supported for encoding with Toast unless you have purchased one of the packages from flip4mac.com. The free flip4mac player does not support having wmv files re-encoded to other formats, so you must have one of the purchased versions.

 

[geskel]

Excuse the confusion here. This forum is a bit crazy, in my opinion. In case the response I just wrote in "Fast Reply" doesn't make the big time, here is what it said.

 

I already have Perian 1.1 and Flip4Mac WMV Studio. Any other ideas?

 

Meanwhile, I transcoded the WMV files via VisualHub into AVI (DivX) and Toast accepted them, audio and all.

 

Since most of the videos a I would like to put on DVD are WMV files, I would really like to convince Toast to do its job without the translation.

 

Thanks, tsantee, for your response.

 

 

[tsantee]

Excuse the confusion here. This forum is a bit crazy, in my opinion. In case the response I just wrote in "Fast Reply" doesn't make the big time, here is what it said.

 

I already have Perian 1.1 and Flip4Mac WMV Studio. Any other ideas?

 

Meanwhile, I transcoded the WMV files via VisualHub into AVI (DivX) and Toast accepted them, audio and all.

 

Since most of the videos a I would like to put on DVD are WMV files, I would really like to convince Toast to do its job without the translation.

 

Thanks, tsantee, for your response.

Hmmm. Insert the DVD that has no audio. Choose DVD with the top button of the Toast Media Browser. Double-click on what appears in the browser window. Now hold the cursor over one of the titles that appears in the browser. In the popup window that appears is there any description for audio? Also, how is the audio described when you add the wmv video to the Toast Video window?

[geskel]

Hmmm. Insert the DVD that has no audio. Choose DVD with the top button of the Toast Media Browser. Double-click on what appears in the browser window. Now hold the cursor over one of the titles that appears in the browser. In the popup window that appears is there any description for audio? Also, how is the audio described when you add the wmv video to the Toast Video window?

 

 

The media browser (which took me fifteen minutes to find :-) describes the audio in both titles as "Dolby Stereo, 48000 Hz."

 

When I add a WVM video to the Toast Video window, the description is "Audio Windows Media Audio 9 Standard, Stereo,32000 Hz."