I'm sorry? When rendering to MPEG you can CHOOSE or elect to include audio or not.

This is what I do:

A] MPEG2 - Video Stream only

PLUS

B] AC3 - Audio

Just 'cos you rendered a container with only video does not make it a mistake on your part. The crucial thing I take away from your experience is to understand that I CAN choose to include audio or not!

So, no, you weren't "silly" for rendering MPEG2 - it is most likely you rendered a "non" audio MPEG2 template.

I'm looking at the Main Concept MPEG-2 "DVD Architect PAL Video Stream" template and I even here I can elect to include Audio. In fact I could be even MORE obtuse and choose to elect Audio and disengage the Video stream - if I wanted to!

And again, the AVI templates allow for including Video and Audio separately too. So again, saying you did one and not the other is still only halfway there - yeah? Do you see that?

After some 5 years of attempting to get my head around this technology, these AVIs and MPEGS and so on, are only containers of what I might stuff into them.

Now, if I've got any of this wrong, please tell me? Yeah?

Best regards

Grazie