Video choppy after Authoring with Spruce Up!?

[Kyle2k1]

I got a DVD burner 2 weeks ago (Pioneer 104)
Now i wanted to make my Resident Evil.avi into a DVD.
I extracted .wav with Virtual Dub as usual and used TMPGENC to encode:
DVD Film NTSC
Bitrate 5500
File Size 4.1gb

This had great results a perfectly smooth mpeg2.
Now I then imported the movie into Spruce Up and made a nice menu and added a trailer for Matrix Reloaded to it.
I then saved the project as Title Set (AUDIO_TS & VIDEO_TS) so that i could burn with Prassi Primo.
I then burned the DVD at 1x using Mirror Branded at £1.50 per disk with no probs.
Popped the dvd into my PS2 menu came up fine, in working order.
I tried the trailer and video would freeze for a second and then skip to where it should be and NO audio.
The same happened with the movie freeze and catch up with NO audio.
Now straight away i thought it must be the disk media but i then opened the vobs which i still had on my computer to find that the video was just as bad with the freezing but i DID have audio.
So im not sure whats wrong, i know that Spruce Up is making bad video but the audio is a mystery mabey thats the media?!

Anyway if ANYONE could help on the video or audio probs, plz share ur knowledge ive been put down so much after looking forward to making my first proper dvd!
All help is grately appreciated!

[Kyle2k1]

14 views no replies
Plz any got any ideas???

[ashtones]

Try using another authoring program. I use DVDit P.E. seems to work fine.

[Thorn]

You'll save some time if you test the title set before burning. Right after you've created the title set, WinDVD has the option of playing a DVD from a folder (well, for older versions you have to subst the folder so it thinks it's a new drive). You'll be able to tell if the problem is the authoring at that point without having to contend with disc issues. Have you tried muxing the audio and video with tmpgenc and seeing if the file plays fine (through dvdplayer soft)? There's a chance that the files are non-standard and that's messing up SpruceUp. I haven't had problems with SpruceUp so I don't know what is going wrong with it.

[Kyle2k1]

The dvdit trial is offline on main website, but after 10mins of scouring the net i found an alternative link.
Im gonna try that 2night or 2morrow and get back as soon as i can with some results.
Anyone got any ideas about the sound loss when playing dvd on ps2?

[Bel]

I would try demuxing the mpeg and feeding it into Spruceup that way. Just name your .m2v and .mpa (or .ac3) the same name and in the same directory, then spruce will import the video and then the sound. Spruce is more reliable that way sometimes (although I've never had the problem you have), so I'd give it a whirl.

Oh, and 14 views... Are you kidding me? Go find a little patience, or find someone in a chat room to bug. It's a message board not IRC.

[RealaT]

Kyle2k1, about the PS2 video freezing and catching-up....

I've had this problem with movies on my PS2 for the last 6 months, I've tried probably every authoring software I could get my hands on and still no luck. The worst thing is that it isn't consistent (i.e. same tmpgenc template, same authoring software, same burning software, same media = sometimes works, sometimes doesn't). It annoys me because my disc work perfectly on every other dvd player i've tried just not any model of PS2

Sorry to dash your hopes, but the only thing i cant hink of is that the PS2 is just not a very good dvd player.