IDVD - No Audio in Disc Image

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.
I've used the same DV video camera before to import
to iMovies and and then export to iDVD. I've never
had this problem before. Anyone else facing this
issue?
Also, I have tried exporting to Quicktime directly
from iMovie and I get a pop up saying some unknown
error was encountered.
Please help!
I've had the same problem (as have many others), and I've found both an odd related symptom and a weird fix, not mentioned in any of the posts I've seen. I also use iDVD6.0.3.
First, the odd symptom: after you build the non-working disk image, check the VIDEO_TS files that it produced. In my case, they all had a date-time stamp about 36 hours into the future. From a programmer's viewpoint, this looks suspiciously like a memory leak (i.e. data overflowing its allocated bounds and corrupting some program instructions or other critical data).
Second, the weird fix: I have an iBook that still has iDVD5 on board. I used that to suck in the iMovie6 project, and it built a working disk image with no problem at all. (And the dates on the VIDEO_TS files were sensible.)
In my opinion, this is a major bug in iDVD6.
iMac G4, iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
iMac G4, iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
iMac G4, iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
iMac G4, iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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aloola,
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No you call Applecare (by phone) if your Mac is still eligible.
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I’ve made some films in FCE HD exported them to QT and used a idvd (6.0.3) theme to write a dvd, all I I should and have done many many times before.
All the films exported to QT are in good quality when you watch them in QT, even if you play them in IDVD they look perfect, but once the dvd is written, or even written to disc image (so it can’t be a bad dvd) there is a huge quality drop. It does not look like a high quality apple made film anymore, compare it to an old analog filmed thing with huge bad pixels blocky view, like I used a crystallize effect in imovie (but the film has never been in imovie), not smooth at all as it is playing in QT or did in FCE
It even shows bad on my tv, so not only on my 15,4 macbook or 20” cinema display
This is very humiliating when you play it to a crowd of friends
Is this a idvd 6 problem, might switching to DVD studio Pro be a solution?
I have had this problem ever since I used IDVD6, could returning to IDVD5 be a good cure?
This can not be a good direction of working…
RC
MB Pro 1,83 GHz 1,5GB Ram 120HD Mac OS X (10.4.7) 20" Cin-displ; Lacie 120-500-600 Extern HD

A few points:
First of all, how long is your movie? The closer it is to Best Quality's 2 hour limitation the more artifacting may occur. I find that if I keep things under 90 minutes I get much cleaner results. If it is over 90 minutes I split it over two projects (this all assumes you are using Single Layer DVD/burner. DL will, of course, handle longer movies differently)
The suggestion to make sure everything is PAL is totally correct. Make sure all your FCE sequences are PAL as well as iDVD
Just to clarify: From FCE Export as Quictime Movie ... not Quicktime Conversion. You can decide to make it self-contained or not but this will not affect the quality.
Compressing to MPEG2 is certainly an "invasive" process. DVD Studio Pro and Compressor gives you more options, but for most of my movies I use iDVD and get clean results ... except, as I said, if the running time is very long.
The other thing to note here: What is your source material? Are we talking DV original? Or were the original video files another codec, like MPEG4, or MPEG2 from a DVD ... if so, you already went thru re-compression in order to work in FCE ... by the time you make a DVD, yikes. If it is all DV original, you are really only encoding once.
And viewing your work on a TV applies to every step of the process, including in FCE. While working there, use a TV to monitor your work and you will have an accurate idea to what your image quality actually is

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