DVD-Lab PRO Problem: Multiple Movies

[jedhonx]

My mind's been wrecked.

I have 13 cartoon episodes encoded at Half D1, and pretty much up to DVD standards, each about 25 minutes, so that's roughly 5 hours of video. The Mediachance website states that you can create 99 VTS domains each able to accomodate 99 movies bringing the total to about 9801 movies (in theory). Now I've been trying to author just 13, but when it comes to authoring the 10th movie, it keeps saying that my files aren't elementary, yet I'm sure I encoded the files properly. (I've tried two ways, 1st creating just one VTS with 13 movies, and 2nd, 13 VTS each with one movie to no avail).

My questions: 1) does anybody else experience this? 2) is there a workaround for it?

Thanks

[MackemX]

first off, can you import that 10th movie by itself?

you should also be able to put 13 episodes into 1 VTS no problem

[jedhonx]

Yup. All 26 video files (13) and audio files (13) are imported into the assets bin. I have 13 movie placeholders as well. And all the video and audio files are in place in each movie placeholder.

I click on compile, and a few minutes after, DLP tells me that my files aren't elementary files (this is actually the first time I'm trying out 13 movies on one DVD) Space and time-wise, they physically fit onto the DVD.

Any insight?

[MackemX]

oops , I meant have you tried creating a DVD using only the files that it barfs on?

if you can run every file through DVDLab by itself then at least you know the files are OK so we can look elsewhere for a fix

[jedhonx]

I did that too, and each worked fine on its own, so I'm sure I've encoded the files properly. I've been at it for three days now. I forgot to mention, I also did a test compile of the 13 movies, and also had the same result, always on the 10th, again saying that my files are non-elementary.

I tried compiling 7 and 8 movies and they work fine. Just this one that's more than 9 movies that's killing me.

:igh::

I appreciate your replies, thanks.

[Shadowmistress]

Are you using dvdlab or dvdlab pro?

Can you post a screenshot of the error message? Non-elementary appears in many places.

Have you tried ticking the "Demux all to ES" box in the compile window?

[jedhonx]

Shadowmistress:

I'm using the PRO version.

Here's a screen cap of the Compile Error Dialogue box.



And yes, I've tried ticking that "Demux to ES" box, still showing this same compile error message.

Perhaps DLP has a 9-movie-limit on every project?

Thanks

[jedhonx]

Thanks to MackemX and Shadowmistress for your replies. It turns out the 10th audio track slipped through to DLP as a good file. I just didn't notice that there was something wrong with the file. (Actually I still don't know how the encoding went wrong)

Ripped out the audio track from the original AVI, encoded it, now works well and I've already compiled the DVD.

Again, thank you for your replies, and much apologies for wasting your time :P