DVD-lab wants Elementary streams, my dear Watson

[dik1]

Hi ho,
I am trying to love DVD-lab trial version. (I have Ulead DVD MovieFactory, but the menu maker on DVD-lab is much slicker).

Anyways, i can't create a proper MPEG2 that will satisfy DVD-lab.
Oh sure, it says it likes my video, i can even add chapters to it and preview it, but when it comes make VOB time, it thinks for 20 minutes (30% of task complete) and then says "Done!", leaving me with an empty VIDEO_TS directory. (Thanks for the useful message!)

I have two methods of creating MPEG2; ATI TV capture, and Ulead VideoStudio 5 output.

Is there a program which can chop up my fine MPEG2 into elementary stream files, such that i might try to feed those into DVD-lab?

danke
dik
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[Vejita-sama]

You want to de-mux you MPEG2 video into m2v (video) + mp2 (audio) files. You can do this with TMPGenc:

1. Choose "file | MPEG tools"
2. Choose 'simple demux'
3. Load source, hit run

A potential problem (and maybe your current problem) is that mp2 audio is NOT supported by the DVD standard (even thou 95%+ of NTSC standalones will play it anyway). So you might want to convert your mp2 audio to ac3:

http://www.doom9.org/audio-guides.htm

[dik1]

... You can do this with TMPGenc: ...

Well press my caps lock and call me a newbie.

Thanks, that worked perfectly. I hadn't tried TMPGEnc because i didn't pay for the MPEG2 pack.

(although i do use TMPGEnc to encode my png stills into a VCD animation)

[dik1]

Thanks, that worked perfectly.

Hrm, well not quite so perfectly. Half way through the 1 hour video, there is suddenly a 1 second drift of audio, but i'm not ready to ask about that yet.
(Was it TMPGEnc? was it DVD-lab? )

dik