Why is DVDMaestro giving me so much crap?

[garibaldo]

I'm seriously starting to hate this program. I took a MPG2 PAL stream with a strange resolution. IT was something like 576x576, 25 fps, etc.
I used the following Avisynth script:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\***\MPEG2DEC.dll")
vid=Mpeg2Source("***.d2v")
aud=WAVSource("AU.wav")
AudioDub(vid,aud)
#ResamleAudio(48000)
AssumeFPS(23.976,True)
ConvertToYUY2()
Crop(0,74,528,428)
LanczosResize(720,480)

I used DJRumpy's conversion guide and encoded the video with Cinema Craft using the right settings. I then ran pulldown on the resulting file. The files plays perfectly with WMP and PowerDVD. I can load the file into DVDMaestro fine, but the audio gives me a Media Recognition Error. I can reverse the order and import the audio first, but then the video gave me a media recognition error. This is my second attempt at this. I was able to get both the audio and video to load before. I could create the entire project, but it would have several failures during the compiling process. It would claim that the video stream is missing or it would simply crash. What the f*ck is wrong with this program? How can a file be invalid when loaded AFTER loading the audio file, but be valid when the video file is loaded first? Is there a program that can give me more specifics on how my movie could possibly be non-DVD compliant?

I tried DVDit! and everything seemed to work fine, but the DVD didn't work in my JVC DVD player when burned on Apple Media with Nero. It did, however, work on my Apex AD-1500. Perhaps it has something to do with the 3:2 pulldown tag and the 23.97 fps source. The problem I noticed with the Apex was that the video wouldn't display in 16:9 format. I opened up the VOB files in DVD2AVI and it recognizes the menus as 4:3 and then recognizes the video as 16:9.

Why is this so hard?

[garibaldo]

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