[Hidden-tech] DVD authoring and audio rates

[Mark & Mary Knox]

I have been authoring a DVD recently with DVD Studio Pro - to get the 
videos and audio (compression MPEG2/AIFF) in  sync I needed to reduce 
the audio rate to 44.1 from 48. This is in spite of all I have read 
that the format for DVD should be 48. But when this was done (44.1) it 
played well on the MACs and I was able to burn a DVD that played on 
PCs, MACs, and desk-top players.

But there have been a few caveats, first it does play with CyberLink's 
PowerDVD, Nero's player, MAC's DVDplayer, and most desk-tops I've 
tried, but does not play well in Windows Media Player (video image 
flickers with after image). I have muxed the disc at 3.2-6.0 bit rate, 
but my guess is that the audio stream is causing the problem. Also I 
cannot use Apack because it requires 48.0 for DVD audio conversion.

Does any of this sound familiar to anyone, are there DVD authoring 
experts out there?

Thanks, Mark

"Be the world you want to see." (m.knox)