TMPGEnc dvd author mpgs shrinking

[mickmars]

Ok this is driving me crazy,Im experienced with dvd captures.encoding etc but i have recently used FAB DVDecryptor to strip a dvd and put in to my hard drive as normal.
Its a TV show dvd with 6 x 25min episodes that I intended to burn on 2 DVD R discs as normal.

I made the 25min mpgs as normal with DVD Author 1.6,and built a menu then encoded to DVD for burning.However 2 of these 25 min episodes were only 15 mins on the finished file.
I tried again making sure the mpgs were in fact 25 mins long and tried to make my DVD file for burning.same result.
ANY SUGGESTIONS PLEASE?

TMPGEnc dvd author 1.6

[mats.hogberg]

Well, as TDA is a tool for authoring from mpg to DVD, not for creating mpg (even tho I know it can, to some extent) I'm not surprised.
If you have VOBs you want to re-author (why is all suddenly using VOBs as source material for authoring, when it's really the output from authoring?) TDA can accept them as is, or run them thru vob2mpg if you want to feed TDA the real thing. (=mpg files)

/Mats

[mickmars]

thanks for your reply..
my point is that I have my 3 mpgs that are each 25 mins long.
Creating mpgs from a ripped DVD has never been a problem.
Its the fact that after authoring two of these mpgs seem to be 15 mins long when the DVD Author menu clearly shows they are 25mins long!

[mats.hogberg]

Try running them thru something like VideoReDo - I think I've read in some previous threads it can fix mpgs that TDA truncates.

/Mats

[mickmars]

whats does truncates mean?

[mickmars]

i now know what truncates means ha ha

so im still confused because these mpgs are the correct length before authoring.So what exactly should i do with videoredo to correct this problem

[mats.hogberg]

I'm sure there's something awry in your mpgs at the point where TDA wont read more. As I've never had the occation to do this myself (I'm just going on what I've read here) I think simply loading the mpg in VideoReDo (check the length!) and saving it out again will do the trick.

/Mats

[Alex_ander]

Is your source a multi-session DVD recorded on a standalone? I had a similar problem at reauthoring such a DVD I had from web. I noticed that between sessions some still frames with DVD-recorder logo were written and this somehow distorted reading of timecode in MPEG. I had to manually cut out these pieces in VideoReDo before authoring, then it worked OK.

[mickmars]

Alex_ander....I was using a retail DVD

mats.hoberg....VideoRedo worked perfectly.....if u can cook I will marry you ha ha

thanks guys

[mickmars]

NOW if i could only solve the WinDVD Creator 3 problem i have,
I use it for trimming mpgs but the audio is always out of synch.
Version 2 was ok,but it was preinstalled on this computer and version 3 uninstalled it....

[mats.hogberg]

If all you want to do is cut parts, I've lately used nothing but TDA during authoring. Never a sync issue so far.
If that's not how you'd like to do it, trim in VideoReDo (or other trusted mpeg editor)

/Mats