Playing MPG file-No sound

[mikesteve]

I rendered a movie in svms 12 platinum by clicking make movie and send to DVDA 5. The movie renders fine and I then click send to DVDA. I make my menus and burn the disk. Everything works fine. My question is, when I go back try to play the mpg file that was rendered in Vegas the file plays but there is no sound. What is causing this?

I tried VLC player and windows media player. There are 4 files in the folder: family1.mpg, family1.mpg.sfl,family1.ac3,family1ac3.sfl. My quick time version is up to date. Here is the info from mediainfo:

General
Complete name : C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Sony\Movie Studio Platinum\12.0\family1\family1.ac3
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
File size : 187 MiB
Duration : 2h 16mn
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 192 Kbps

Audio
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Duration : 2h 16mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 187 MiB (100%)

General
Complete name : C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Sony\Movie Studio Platinum\12.0\family1\family1.ac3.sfl
File size : 636 Bytes

General
Complete name : C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Sony\Movie Studio Platinum\12.0\family1\family1.mpg
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 6.03 GiB
Duration : 2h 16mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 6 348 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Duration : 2h 16mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 6 222 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 9 500 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.601
Time code of first frame : 00:00:00:00
Time code source : Group of pictures header
Stream size : 5.91 GiB (98%)

Menu

General
Complete name : C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Sony\Movie Studio Platinum\12.0\family1\family1.mpg.sfl
File size : 11.1 KiB

[Steve Grisetti]

Which Render As template did you use to output your file? Or did you use the Make Movie shortcut?

Many templates render your movie as separate audio and video streams.

Your video is the .mpg file. And, if the program also output an .ac3 file, then the mpeg is a video only stream and the audio is the separate audio for that file. (Don't worry about the other files. They're not media files.)

When you add your MPEG to your DVD Architect project, the program usually locates and adds the audio file automatically. Have a look on the movie's timeline in DVD Architect. If for some reason the audio file isn't on the timeline below the video, you can add it manually just by dragging it from the Explorer.

[mikesteve]

I used the make movie shortcut. I noticed the audio never appears in DVDA when using the movie shortcut, but always plays fine when previewed in DVDA and when burned to disk. I was just trying to figure out why the movie will not play with audio after the disk is burned and the file is saved in the Sony folder. I navigate to app data/local/sony/mstudio/12/file name. I open the mpg and the video plays but no audio. The audio file is in the folder.

[Steve Grisetti]

Yep. It's as I said: the Make Movie shortcut outputs a separate audio and video stream, which unite in DVD Architect. This allows Movie Studio to output your audio as a high-quality Sony W64 file.

But, if you try to play the files, the video includes no audio and the audio file includes no video.

[vkmast]

I noticed the audio never appears in DVDA when using the movie shortcut, but always plays fine when previewed in DVDA and when burned to disk.

The audio appears on the Timeline in DVDA if you double-click your media in the Project Overview window.