dvd-lab 1.3

[Red96TA]

Even after a search, I can't believe that nobody is talking about the new version of dvd-lab

http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/news.html

There's the link to the changes....I tried the motion menu option and it's NICE!!! You're choice of motion BG or thumbs...rotatable text

The product keeps getting better...can't wait until subtitile support.

Does anybody know if there is a 'play all' option?

[FulciLives]

I tried DVD-Lab about a month or so ago and it was a Beta version I think of 1.3 or something like that (whatever was the newest version a month or so ago).

I had audio synce problems with it but when I took the same files and authored them in two other authoring programs ... well ... they had no audio sync problems at all.

Makes me very leary of using DVD-Lab now.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Red96TA]

I take it you were using elementary streams when you were compiling...I use muxed programs and haven't had a problem yet....I'll be letting 1.3 mux a m2v and ac3 in a couple days and will post results here.

According to the website, 1.3 fixed the mux problem...even if you run into problems before you burn, 1.3 has a new audio delay that you can use to manually offset any audio problems....lol....ever timed subtitles....lol...we'll see.

[FulciLives]

I take it you were using elementary streams when you were compiling...I use muxed programs and haven't had a problem yet....I'll be letting 1.3 mux a m2v and ac3 in a couple days and will post results here.

According to the website, 1.3 fixed the mux problem...we'll see.

I think the problem was that I used TMPGEnc and let it do the 3-2 pulldown as opposed to encoding it at 23.976fps straight and then running pulldown.exe on it afterwards.

My conclusion was the DVD-Lab doesn't like the way TMPGEnc does 3-2 pulldown.

However ... I've found 3 other DVD authoring programs that appear to have no problems with such files so to me the problem is DVD-Lab and not TMPGEnc.

As for the audio I decided to try using LPCM this time since the movie was rather short (about 75 minutes) so I imported elementry streams since you can't mux an M2V with PCM beforehand (at least not that I know of).

Normally though I use AC-3 audio but I wasn't able to test further as my trail period ran out and I wasn't about to buy DVD-Lab based on THAT experience. My fault for getting bogged down and waiting to use it at the end of the trail period.

Anyways ... I've pretty much been using TMPGEnc DVD Author lately.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman