IDVD 6 - No Audio

I've burned my project to DVD, played it back on a computer with no hitch, everything works great including audio, however, when played back on a DVD Player there is NO audio.
I have confirmed that other DVDs do play on the DVD player with audio. The problem is in the encoding.
Please advise.
Thanks
G

I've burned my project to DVD, played it back on a computer with no hitch, everything works great including audio
So the finished DVD works OK in your computer - right?
however, when played back on a DVD Player there is NO audio.
Have you tried it in OTHER set top DVD players?
iDVD produces DVDs with uncompressed PCM audio. It's possible (but highly unlikely), your set top DVD player doesn't like such audio.
It MOST likely sounds like a burn-error issue caused by poor media and/or a high burn speed.
Verbatim and Maxell media is good. Burn speeds of 4x or lower are best.
If you are using iDVD 6, the only way to reduce the burn speed is to create a disk image file out of iDVD (an option under FILE) and then use Apple's Disk Utility to burn the disk image file to writable media. (Disk Utility allows you to reduce the burn speed as does iDVD '08.)
F Shippey

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like many other, I had the problem that when I edited my movies in iMovie and iDVD the audio was fine, until I started burning them on DVD or disk image. Than there was either no audio at all, or after some minutes (usually 5-15) the audio was gone.
I tried lot's of tips that I found in this forum, but nothing helped.
My data was on an external USB2 drive (mac formated). Since access to USB2 is somewhat slow on macs, I got a new firewire drive. Using the terminal cp, I copied all my data to the new harddrive. When I than opened my iDVD project and did my 101 try to burn the DVD, everything went fine. I tried my other projects that I got stuck with (no audio) ... all of them burned just fine. When I do it from the USB2 drive --> no audio !!!
So my problem is solved and I'm happy.
But I would like to know just for my sanity what is causing this problem when having the data on a USB2 drive (400GB, MacOS Extended). Does anybody has any idea?
The drive is slower than a firewire drive. But the only effect I would expect from that is that I have to wait longer until my movie is rendered ....
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Welcome Uwe_Meier
Glad to hear the issue was solved eventually. To answer your question, iMovie and iDVD6 were designed to work well with firewire devices. They are often problematic at best with USB.
The reason for this is that firewire offers a sustained data stream which is in practice ideal for most video applications, whereas usb transfers data in packet technology (burst of data that are entirely CPU dependent). Firewire is actually smarter technology for most high speed data transfers (and especially video) since it is not cpu dependant. FW negociates bus conflicts on its own whereas the same bus conflict can slow USB to a crawl.
The drive is slower than a firewire drive. But the only effect I would expect from that is that I have to wait longer until my movie is rendered ....
Nope. This isn't correct. Here's why:
"While USB 2.0 has a higher theoretical speed limit (480Mbps) than Firewire 400 (400 Mbps), Firewire is much faster than USB 2.0 in real life usage, just by nature of the design of the protocol.
Firewire has very little overhead and is far more efficient with sustained data transfers than USB 2.0.
USB is very dependant on CPU usage and is adversely affected by other processes running on the machine, as well as other devices attached to the USB bus. Firewire is not suceptible to these issues.
In the real world, you will never get anywhere near 480Mbps with USB 2.0. You are hardly even likely to see half that speed.
Firewire is faster than USB 2 in almost every aspect... especially on a Mac."
The above is a quote from Rich Fleming.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4009484&#4009484
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A couple of promising ideas tried used QT Pro, to export the audio track from the iMovie generated MPEG-4 file - as a WAV file, resampling to 48kHz and 16-bit... then Adding this back to the video track in the MPEG-4 file (having deleted the original audio track). In another test I also tried the Add to Selection and Scale option. Oddly enough I think the Add to Selection and Scale attempt generated more sync issues than before in the final DVD movie... so I stuck with the MPEG-4 file containing the video track and the added, resampled at 48kHz & 16 bit, WAV audio track.
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Hi,
I've started experiencing this issue with version
6.0.3. When I save my iDVD project as a Disc Image
and play it on my computer, there is no audio
(volume) when the video plays. First time, I didn't
bother to test the disc image and burnt it to a DVD
and found that there was no audio when I played it
with my DVD player. But then when I directly tested
the disc image, there was no audio in it either.
I went through a few posts on this discussion forum.
One of them suggested using an earlier theme from
5.0. I tried that too with the same result. For some
reason, there is no audio in the disc image. When I
play the footage directly in iDVD, it plays fine with
full audio, so I don't think there is any issue with
the way it was exported from iMovie to iDVD.
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to iMovies and and then export to iDVD. I've never
had this problem before. Anyone else facing this
issue?
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from iMovie and I get a pop up saying some unknown
error was encountered.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=494268&tstart=0&start=45
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