[MEncoder-users] Converted AVI->MPG using mencoder, have no audio on DVD (authoring with dvdauthor)

[Grozdan]

2009/9/26 Oded Rimon <odedrim2 at yahoo.com>:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm trying to convert an AVI I have to a DVD Video.
> I've converted the AVI using the following command:
>
> mencoder ~/kvalim.avi -of mpeg -vf scale=720:576,harddup -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts acodec=ac3:abitrate=128:vcodec=mpeg2video:keyint=25:vbitrate=5000:aspect=4/3 -mpegopts format=dvd -srate 48000 -ofps 25 -o ~/kvalim.mpg
>
> This is a PAL video, and I think the above should fit...
>
> The MPG file that is created works fine, has both video and audio and looks quite good.
> Then I used dvdauthor on this MPG, with the following commands:
>
> mkdir Kvalim
> dvdauthor -o Kvalim -t kvalim.mpg
> dvdauthor -o Kvalim -T
> mkisofs -dvd-video -o kvalim.iso Kvalim
>
> dvdauthor seems to work fine (it doesn't throw any errors or warning, unlike what happened in the last 100 times I tried to do this trick...), and the DVD is burnt...
> BUT when I play this DVD I only see the video, no audio at all.

Have you tried with audio bitrate of 192, most DVDs I've seen with the
lowest audio bitrate use 192 kbps for AC3 stereo. It's just a
suggestion though and I'm not sure. It could also be that lavc ac3
encoding is somehow messed up

>
> Note: I don't think this is a dvdauthor problem, because the VOB files it creates have sound (when I play them on my computer)
>
> Is there something I'm doing wrong, or is this some kind of bug?
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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