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I have some VOB/mpeg files that were orphaned from a Coby 1100 DVD
recorder. A few gigs in all. All of them play fine on a computer.
About half of them play fine on a Samsung HT-DS400 home theatre unit.
The other half play fine BUT have no sound.

There does not seem to be any difference between the ones that work and
the ones that don't work, according to Gspot. Often when a program is
split over 2 VOBs / Mpegs, the first half will sound and the second
half won't--or vice verse.

Is there a way to fix this? What is causing the problem?

In AutoGK, I used the default presets (75% quality) to re-encode MPEGs
into xvid avis to see if the problem would go away. The first segment
was the full 1023.9 GB; it had been silent; the second segment was
754.9 MB. On a 900 MHz computer, the convert took overnight. The
resultant files were 90% of the size of the original files, which
surprised me. Isn't xvid much more compressed than mpeg2?

Anyway, I took the files to the Samsung and they played, with sound,
but every few seconds the sound would stutter, and the picture has a
slightly liquid aspect. Great colour and resolution and all, but the
action wasn't crisp. All sort of as if the player couldn't keep up
with the decoding of the stream.

What did I do wrong? It was just an experiment, of course, on
rewriteable media.

Basically, I want to have these TV shows in some format that the
Samsung will read (mpeg, divx, xvid), put them on a DVD-R, and erase
them from my hard drive.

TIA !

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Jonathan Berry