Burned DVD loses Audio while playing

So i have tried to Burn a movie twice using both High Quality and Professional Quality performance to do it. The movie will play (theres no slide shows or pics or anything) for a while just fine, and then about 10 minutes in the sound disappears for the rest of the movie (and its two hours long!). When I play it in IDVD preview it plays just fine, same with the actual file playing in quick time, so its not my file thats messed up. I have no idea how to fix this. Any clues?

First, are you using music purchased from iTunes? If so, you should take these preliminary steps.
1. Burn the music in question to a CD.
2. Reimport the music as an AIFF file. iTunes>Preferences>Advanced>Importing>Import using: (drop down menu) AIFF encoder
3. This music can now be imported into your project.
Before you burn a DVD, you should first create a disk image. In iDVD, go to File>Save as disk image. Doing so will allow you to view your project on your computer's DVD player. You will be able view your project exactly how it will play once burned to disk. That enables you to find and correct any errors before burning a disk.
I hope this helps.

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Message was edited by: jrjr729

Hi
Can it be so that You use DL-DVDs ? They can be problematic - I only use SL-DVDs
Else
No audio on DVD disc.
Most common origin.
1. Imported audio from iTunes.
• In iTunes copy out as an Audio-CD .aiff (Same as played on standard Stereo CD - no .mp3)
• Use this in Your movie project
2. Low - Free Space on Start-up/Boot/Internal/Mac OS Hard disk makes it hard for iMovie to work as intended.
Down to 1.3 GB and it doesn’t work - especially audio don’t migrate over to Media Browser (iM’08 & 09)
3. Material in iMovie’08 & 09 - Shared to Media Browser and here selected as MEDIUM (or ev. as Large)
large.m4v. It silenced out this project in iDVD. By making a slight alteration - provoking it to ask for a new Share/Publish to Media Browser and here selecting 640x480 - and audio was back when a new iDVD project was created including this movie.
Minuscular - - 176x144
Mobile - - - - - 480x360
Medium - - - - 640x480
Large - - - - - - 720x540 960x540
HD - - - - - - - - 1280x720
4. Strange audio formats like .mp3, .avi etc.
• Change them to .aiff. Use an audio editor like Audacity (free)
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Cheque Audio-Out resp. Audio-In
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Downgrade Perian from recent versions back to version 1.0.
That worked for me, and so far I haven't encountered any deficiencies — except it takes more advanced versions of Perian to enable QuickTime to handle subtitles in .srt format — that I have noticed.
7. GarageBand fix.
In this set audio to 44.1 kHz (Klaus1 suggestion)
(if this don’t work try 48 kHz - me guessing)
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• Do a DiskImage (File menu and down)
• Double click on the .img file
• Test it with Apple DVD-player
If it’s OK then make Your DVD.
Burn at x1 speed.... (or x4)
• In iDVD 08 - or - 09
• Burn from DiskImage with Apple’s Disk Utilities application
• OR burn with Roxio Toast™ if You got it
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