Converted XVid to DVD, Freezes on playback

[fwtong]

I thought I had this beat, but apparently not. I encoded an XVid to a DVD using CCE. My Avisynth script is as follows:

# -= AviSynth v2.0.8.0 script by FitCD v1.2.4 =-
AVISource("input.avi", False)
LanczosResize(640,432,0,3,640,474)
AddBorders(40,24,40,24)
#Trim(0,33307).FadeOut(150)
ConvertToYUY2() # For VirtualDub or CCE

I used DJRumpy's guide for all the CCE settings.

After encoding, I ran it through pulldown.exe to convert the framerate to 29.97 fps. All of pulldown.exe's options are left on default.

For audio, I used VirtualDubMod to extract and converted to ac.3 using besweet.

After authoring with DVDauthorgui, I tried playback with a Mintek DVD-2110, and a Pioneer DV-343. Playback seemed fine on the Mintek, but on the Pioneer, it played about 1 second before it froze.

Anyone got any clues?[/quote]

[Forum Troll]

Pioneer players are notorious for freezing when you use streams created by Besweet (as the streams it creates are not completely Dolby Digital compliant). Personally I use the TMPGENC AC3 encoder, as it is a licensed product and therefore totally compliant. http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tsp_ac3.html

[reboot]

Ffmpeggui will transcode audio to AC3 fully DVD compliant, and it's free.
It will only do DD2.0 though.

[fwtong]

Thanks, I tried re-encoding without extracting the audio and letting CCE make an mpa file. That seemd to do the trick. Although, I have had some problems with not extracting the audio. I'll try ffmpeggui to do the audio extraction.