TMPGenc DVD Author error

[EAO]

Yesterday my wife bought me Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. 2nd movie in series.

I made a backup file of the movie in DVD Shrink. (It plays fine on the PC in WinDVD.) Then I tried to make a basic menu for it using DVD author.

I kept getting the message. Cannot initialize DVD audio (AC3?) decoder.... or something like that. (Didn't write it down and now I'm at work.)

Just to see if something was up with the program, I ripped the first Harry Potter movie and imported it into DVD author - no problem. I didn't need to burn it since I backed it up a long time ago.

So now that I know the the DVD author program works, I'm at a loss about why I'm running into this problem.

Any solutions for using DVD auth or perhaps are there any - preferably freeware - solutions to work around this?

[flaninacupboard]

try demuxing your DVD files into seperate .m2v and .ac3 files. import these into DVD Author, if it throws up the error then DVDshrink has made some sort of mistake...

alternatively, rip the whole disc using file mode in DVDDecrypter, load and edit using DVD Author, then run the output through DVDShrink.

[EAO]

I haven't used DVD decrypter before, but I did download many months ago.

I'll try it tonight.

Anyone have any other solutions or perhaps an explanation about why DVD Shrink acted this way?