dvd-lab and mpeg2vcr woes.

[edthesped]

If I take a TV show catpured via an AIW9800 card and convert it to a DVD WITHOUT using MPEG2VCR it plays perfectly. Now if I edit out all of the commercials the audio drops out after approximately 2 minutes. I orginally started off with a DVD-Lab Beta and didn't have this problem, I think, then the final 1.3 came out and I upgraded and the problem started showing up. Now my home movies all compile perfectly with DVD-Lab.

Anyway, I have searched this board and the best I could find was to fix GOP errors, I tried that and nothing. I then figured it was the new 1.3 of DVD-Lab and reverted to the beta I have and the audio still drops out after a couple of minutes. I then reinstalled windows, it despirately needed it anyway, reinstalled the DVD-Lab beta and the audio still drops out on edited video. I reencoded my edited mpeg2, using the same settings as the orginal edited mpeg, and it runs fine. Also, I have Ulead DVD Moviefactory LE on my system and when I compile a DVD with it all edited video runs fine.

Does anyone else use MPEG2VCR and DVD-Lab to edit and burn captured TV shows? If so do / have you encountered the same problems and how did you resolve them.

Also, I generally don't demultiplex when I import into DVD-Lab but when I tried to the audio either drops out as usual or falls out of sync after a couple of minutes.

Sorry for the ramble but I'm a bit of an amateur at this and thanks for the input

[lordsmurf]

No trouble here, though my trial usage of DVD-lab was pretty bad. I still got good results, just stumbled through a program (dvd-lab) that I didn't like, just tested out.

[overloaded_ide]

I can't really help with your problem, but I haven't posted anything today so I thought I would post a reply anyway





Well, Ok, not really.

I don't know what Mpeg2VCR is, but I did one Mpeg2 file I had captured with an ATI 7500 radeon and made a DVD on the hard drive with DVD-lab. It works good as my DVD I authored with a diffent program. I haven't burned it to disk though as I already did that before. I just made this backup to play with DVD-lab and see what it does.

With my limited experience I would geuss at Mpeg2VCR is the problem?
I did have a little trouble following what you said works or don't work.

and convert it to a DVD WITHOUT using MPEG2VCR it plays perfectly. Now if I edit out all of the commercials the audio drops out after approximately 2 minutes

It did, then don't, then did? You mention Mpeg2VCR once, but then seem to be speaking most of DVD-LAB?
Is it working fine all the time just Mpeg2 and DVD lab or is there also a problem then? Or is the problem only when you use the middle program , Mpeg2VCR and do cutting?

About 2 minutes? Is that about when the first comercail was cut out?

I only use DVD-lab once, but it worked just fine with a Mpeg2 file I had captured previousily. Though I didn't do much fancy stuff, just basics so far.

[FOO]

DVD Lab has problems with timestamps when you add chapters.
did you try without ?
Can you play your edited mpeg and have sound ?

[timmyp]

I recently ran across a similar issue with DVD-lab... No audio when burning a TV show captured through WinDVR.

Found this forum post:

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25843

and deduced that there may be a problem with the DVD-lab compiler and certain combinations of audio and video streams (in my case I was using a seperate audio and video stream), so I tried TMPGEnc DVD Author and viola! Sound came through on the burnt disk.

Seems there may be an issue with DVD-lab? Can anyone else verify or shed some light on this issue?

[edthesped]

DVD Lab has problems with timestamps when you add chapters.
did you try without ?
Can you play your edited mpeg and have sound ?

No, I haven't tried burning a project without chapters, I'll do that for grins. I do know that the audio does not fail at a chapter point though.

Yes the edited mpegs have sound throughout and copile nicely with with DVDMoviefactory Le. I guess I should have noted that I've been capping and using Moviefactory LE for about 4 mo. for compiling my caps. I just found DVD-Lab and like its menu flexibility much more than Moviefactory. I just feel it is time to move beyond Moviefactory, it kind of reminds me of the AOL of authoring software.