Posted by P Pron on 10/07/05 22:10

robert.westbrook@gmail.com wrote:
|| Tried taking a .VOB file off a disc I recorded with a set-top DVD
|| recorder (CyberHome DVR-1600), bringing it into Womble MPEG Video
|| Wizard, editing out commercials, and re-saving it as a .mpg file.
|| Just changed the file extension, nothing more. Was hoping the fact
|| that it uses the mpeg-2 codec would make no difference.
||
|| The resulting edited file plays no problem in mpeg playing software
|| on the computer, sound works okay.
||
|| But if I burn it to a data DVD as an mpeg file, the cyberhome shows
|| it in its file list just like any compatible file, plays the video,
|| but it has no sound.
||
|| Should I de-multiplex and re-save? I wonder if the audio would get
|| out of synch if I did that, though.
||
|| How to fix this?

Not sure whether this is a solution or not, but I've done this regularly in
the past, *except* that instead of burning the resulting .mpg file to a
disc, I've authored it to DVD using TMPGenc DVD author, and burned that to
disc. No probs with sound.

paul

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