Audio DVD stops playing ...

[tobyed2]

I have followed the following guide to compile an audio DVD which plays fine on my computer using PowerDVD but on my Pioneer DV-444 it plays the first 6 secs of song (displaying random green squares) then the DVD just stops, doesnt even return to menu, I have to press menu on the remote to get out of the "hung" state.

The guide I used is this one (possibly loosely)

http://www.dvdr-digest.com/articles/32_1.html

I am using Tmpgenc 2.5. I use my audio wav file (a complete CD) to generate an mPEG1 stream. I demux the video stream (the bit I need which is all black) and throw away the MP2 stream because I convert the WAV to AC3 (sounds better on my setup).

The tmpgenc settings are as follows
MPG1, 352x288 25fps CBR 50kbps MP2 48khz 384kbps

I had to up the video bitrate as DVDMaestro complained it was too low. I tried using DVD Workshop 2 but it consistently crashes when I add the AC3 stream to the video, I have noticed this even with regular video streams. I would be interested to know if anyone else has had this problem.

So any ideas why the DVD player crashes ?[/url]

[tompika]

Save yourself the time and hassle, go try these softwares


Audio DVD Creator
http://www.audio-dvd-creator.com/index.htm

DVD+Audio Creator
http://www.eximius.nl/index.php

[tobyed2]

tompika
yep, tried those. Not impressed ...

My audio DVD has a menu with each album I can see. Choosing one takes me to a new menu of the titles on that CD. I also have a subtitle on each track so you can see what track is playing.

DVD+Audio doesn't support AC3, just MP2. It may be just my ears but stereo MP2 on my system sounds PANTS !

Audio DVD Creator lumps all CDs into one big chapter list much like DVD+Audio whereas I have individual title sets PER CD. So CD 1 is a Title set with 10 Chapters in it, title set 2 the next CD has 15 Chapters in it etc ...

[maduser74]

because I convert the WAV to AC3 (sounds better on my setup).

tobyed2,
What software you use to do the conversion to AC3 ? Some Pioneer doesn't play AC3 files converted using Besweet.
I had this problem with regular DVDs i created. Then i tried SoftEncode, it started working.

[tobyed2]

I am using SoftEncode. Bit lazy, just loading in the wav for each channel, the rear is a -3db. Sounds pretty good.

[Floydscruffy]

try fixing the ac3 file before your author,

run it through bslice or ac3 fix,

this helped me with some videos that where freezing in my dvd player

[tobyed2]

Ahhh, all is now clear ...

My DVD player seems a bit picky as to bitrate of the video.

A video stream of 1150 MPG1 plays fine. Anything below 1150 (even 1149) DVD player "hangs".

So with some file comparisons the smallest I can produce is a MPG2 VBR 3000 bit rate max 9346, file size 2,806 kb, 5 mins long.

Didnt realise my player was so picky.