Sound question and Maestro or Spruce

I have an MPEG2 file that is 720x480, and the sound is 48000khz at a bitrate of 380. Spruce will take this MPEG2 file but when I burn the disk I get video and no sound. If I demux this file Maestro will take the video and audio both but after I compile it it says that the sound file needs to be AC3 or PCM and this disk has no sound either. The disk plays with sound on my puter but not my set top. If I demux this file is there a way I can convert the wave file to PCM or is there another fix?

You must have PCM or AC3 or DTS compliant bitstreams or the DVD player won't know what to do with them. If it is not compliant in it's current format then use a utility such as CoolEdit to change it to such a PCM file or encode it to AC3 format.

So I guess Soundforge will convert it to PCM?

Best thing to do is try to get soft encode 5.1 and encode it to AC3. SpruceUP handles AC3 files just fine... i think maybe your audio is in mp2 format or something? some dvd players don't play mp2 correctly. you can also get winamp, play your mp2 file with it and in the options for winamp change the output to wave file writer. it'll convert it to a wav file which i believe will be a pcm file... ________