Has anybody had any luck at all making mpeg stills with an audio track behind in VP4 or WinOnCd 3.7 PE? I've made a few of these and the DVD player will scroll thru the pics OK, but it either has no audio at all or the audio is totally distorted. I'm trying them on a Pioneer 502 3 disk changer which i have tried other formats on and they seemed to work. It even plays CdRW and I tried that. Using the silver medial too. Any help would be apreciated? Thx

Tygrus

-- Tygrus (tygrus2000@hotmail.com), October 21, 2000

Answers

Go to the temp folder where videopack is storing it's temp files. This can be found in videopack by gowing to options/preferences. Once you have located the folder, go to it and click on the temp audio files videopack makes when making the vcd. *.mpa. If they sound bad here, it is not your dvd player or media, but the type of audio (wav file) you are using. Make sure the wav is a windows pcm wav file, stereo, and 16bit. If it is not in this format for videopack to encode, it will sound bad. & I mean bad. hissing, gabled, bad...

-- Billy, boy, boy, boy (kilingspam@aol.com), October 21, 2000.

that is not entirely true. I say this because a PC can play files at such a varied rate that things that sound good on here might not play on something else. It seems to be a common problem with stills and audio with the vp4 and winon cd. i have done quite a few things and it seems for whatever reason, the homedeck dvd players cannot read the audio part to well for a still photo when it puts it in the "segment folder' of the vcd. You get a horrible skippy, scratching noise, yet a PC plays it fine. So even though BIlly suggested going into the temp folder this will really do nothing at all as the PC will play the file fine to begin with

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), October 24, 2000.

So you are saying if I open a file and it sounds BAD on my pc, it will sound good on my set-top player? When I encountered the same problem it sounded BAD on my computer and set-top. I then gave videopack 4 a new wav file (encoded correctly) checked the Videopack temp file, the new one played fine on my pc. I made the cd and it played fine on my pc & SET-TOP. I can understand you say things played on a pc can play differently but to say if it sounds bad on my pc it would play fine on a set-top? If the file is corrupt to begin with, the end result will be the same. BAD

-- Billy, boy, boy, boy (kilingspam@aol.com), October 24, 2000.

Hey Billy, quite a few of us have had my problem, yours is the first where the PC actually played the file bad to begin with. The aqudio files i used were fine in all specs and played fine on the pc. But my homedecks would not play the audio right for a still file. So if i have to make a still with audio,k i cna do a few things. One make the audio an mpa file, i then use the ulead which alolows me to input a still and make it an mpeg stream and i make them the same lenght and mux them together, or if thier still slitghly off i will use the virtual dub, to fix the problem. For the record i am highly curious, what homedeck dvd player are you usoing? I have tried 2 pioneers (606d and 525) and the apex ad600a and all of them played the stillswith audio converted in vp4 scratchy and unlistenable. thanks

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), October 25, 2000.