TMPGEnc DVD Author - remaster issue

[Turtle49]

I'm trying to re-master a home video that I put on DVD last year. The menu wasn't very good and I wanted to clean it up. I downloaded the trial version of TMPGEnc DVD author version 1.5.15.49 and installed it.

I then extracted the video and audio file using DVDDecrypter in stream mode (demux setting). After that I multiplexed them using TMPGEnc into a single mpg file (which plays perfectly all the way thru in Windows Media player).

I imported the resulting mpg into TDA and proceeded to set chapter points and create menu's, everything went very well with no indication of trouble.

The problem is:
When I output it into a VIDEO_TS folder half of the main movie is gone. Instead of 3.5gb its 1.5gb.
Has anybody else run into this?

I'm running an AMD 2700 with an MSI Mother board with a gig of ram.

Thanks for your help

[hech54]

Sometimes the menu shows up as "subtitles" in DVDDecrypter. Try not demuxing? Use Stream Processing but only remove "subtitles" if that is the way your original DVD is set up. That's how I remove the menu from my Philips DVDR985 created discs.
I could be wrong....DON'T STONE ME...

[Turtle49]

Thanks for the feedback. I also contacted the developers of TMPGEnc DVD Author and they suggested just importing the original VOB's and re-master from that. They claimed it was more reliable. It sounds like I have some experimenting to do. :P

[Turtle49]

Thanks for the feedback. I also contacted the developers of TMPGEnc DVD Author and they suggested just importing the original VOB's and re-master from that. They claimed it was more reliable. It sounds like I have some experimenting to do.

Success! Importing the DVD info(vob) worked perfectly. I was able to import the titles and put a new menu on, and it looks great.