DVDA2.0 Problem with subtitles and project preview

[Cunhambebe]

I've been testing DVDA2.0. It's such a great software. However, I've got a problem here. One of my projects rates 5,5 GB. It's made up of a menu and a submenu with 5 videos, one of them a thirty minute cartoon. I was trying to make some subtitles for this cartoon. Everything was going on perfectly, but almost at the end, when I was about to finish those subtitles, the application crashes at a certain point (doesn't let me play the timeline, neither put some more subtitles). A screen pops up saying: an error occurred during the current operation. An Exception has occurred. This is what I get among the details:

Sony DVD Architect
Version 2.0 (Build 94)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) WRITE:0x16E1000 IP:0x77C22F43
In Module 'msvcrt.dll' at Address 0x77BF0000 + 0x32F43
Thread: RenderThread ID=0xA50 Stack=0x3C8F000-0x3C90000
Registers:
EAX=0450b812 CS=001b EIP=77c22f43 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=016d4648 SS=0023 ESP=03c8f710 EBP=03c8f718
ECX=3fffd033 DS=0023 ESI=04517744 FS=0038
EDX=00000002 ES=0023 EDI=016e1000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
77C22F43: F3 A5 FF 24 95 58 30 C2 ...0.
77C22F4B: 77 8B C7 BA 03 00 00 00 w.......
Stack Dump:
03C8F710: FFFFFFFE
03C8F714: 00000300
03C8F718: 0450B814 044A0000 + 6B814
03C8F71C: 2400E414 24000000 + E414 (mcmpgdec.DLL)
03C8F720: 016D50D0 01600000 + D50D0
03C8F724: 0450B814 044A0000 + 6B814
03C8F728: FFFFFFFE
03C8F72C: 02A3DF9D 02A30000 + DF9D (mpegin.DLL)
03C8F730: 016BF3F8 01600000 + BF3F8
03C8F734: 016D4690 01600000 + D4690
03C8F738: 016D534A 01600000 + D534A
03C8F73C: 00004A00
03C8F740: 016BF3F8 01600000 + BF3F8
03C8F744: 0450B812 044A0000 + 6B812
03C8F748: 00000000
03C8F74C: 02A3DF6A 02A30000 + DF6A (mpegin.DLL)
> 03C8F768: 77E84809 77E50000 + 34809 (kernel32.dll)
> 03C8F76C: 77E73AE0 77E50000 + 23AE0 (kernel32.dll)
> 03C8F770: 02A4E039 02A30000 + 1E039 (mpegin.DLL)
03C8F774: 016BF3F8 01600000 + BF3F8
03C8F778: 0000000C
03C8F77C: 04C61528 04C10000 + 51528
> 03C8F780: 02B866CF 02B80000 + 66CF (mcplug.dll)
03C8F784: 016BF3F8 01600000 + BF3F8
03C8F788: 03C8FD18 03B90000 + FFD18
03C8F78C: 03C8FD1C 03B90000 + FFD1C
03C8F790: 03C8FD10 03B90000 + FFD10
> 03C8F798: 00482119 00400000 + 82119 (dvdarch20.exe)
03C8F79C: 04C61528 04C10000 + 51528
03C8F7A0: 0000CD77
03C8F7A4: 00000000
03C8F7A8: 03C8FD10 03B90000 + FFD10
> 03C8F7D4: 0043E24C 00400000 + 3E24C (dvdarch20.exe)
- - -
03C8FFF0: 00000000
03C8FFF4: 7C3494F6 7C340000 + 94F6 (MSVCR71.dll)
03C8FFF8: 01611308 01600000 + 11308
03C8FFFC: 00000000

I thought this problem was related with the size of the project, what of course wouldn't be any problem because I've burned the same project before. Let's see why I don't think it's a problem related to the project size: after choosing prepare and burn, the application says the generated video file is too big. I open DVD Shrink and re-author the recently generated file. Then I can open the re-authored file and burn the DVD. So, the problem is not with the size of the project. The problem is with previewing the project.

This same problem (crashing) happened before when I tried to preview this 30 minute file. Since setting subtitles is a process that works along with the timeline and previewing (timeline on the right, at the bottom of the screen), same problem doesn't let me set more subtitles for the video file. When you close the screen with the error warning, the application crashes imediately.
I've tried to copy and paste same file to another project, opening 2 instances of DVDA2.0. Same problem happens. Same thing. I hope someone can help.
Thanks in advance.
PS: an important detail - I DID NOT INSTALL NET FRAMEWORK. WOULD THAT BE THE PROBLEM?

[Sefy]

I'm using this program too now, I was wondering, did you make sure all your windows is updated ? (I don't have the .net either, so that's not the issue) for example the MSVCRT dll's ? have you tried checking if you have latest ones ?

[Cunhambebe]

No. I dont know what are those dlls. What are they for?
By the way, SONY has just answered my message in their forum (DVD Architect Software) - you can search my message and read it there. They said it's probably an ill formed MPEG. Can you believe that? Well, I can't because I open the same MPEG file with Subtitle Workshop and everything works very well. I just don't want to work with Subtitle Workshop since it doesn't support AC-3 files and I would have to render again the whole thing to listen to the soundtrack and decide when to insert subtitles. Got it? - I rendered both files separately - AC-3 for the soundtrack and MPEG2 for the video.
Furthermore, trying to open that same MPEG file with Vegas 5.0, doesn't help that much because Vegas crashes as DVDA 2.0 does at the same point (almost at the end of the file).
What a problem! Don't know what to do.

[Sefy]

That's one of the reasons I'm not a big fan of Sony, they have the worst kind of support ever! when I asked about how to lock the First Play item so it can not be skipped, they said it's not possible, when all I had to do was disable the remote buttons

Anyway, try this link:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support...NoWebContent=1
It's updates for the MSVCRT
I'm not sure if this is the latest one, but I hope it helps out!

[Cunhambebe]

Thank you very much. But can you please give more details on downloading this file? What are those dll for?
Thanks a lot!

[Sefy]

Those DLL's are being used in most applications, i'm not sure it will help you, but having the latest usually helps. These the Visual C++ Libraries which are in use by most programs.

[Cunhambebe]

Thanks for the hint.
I've just found out the problem: it's (MAY BE) the file. I've made a new project containing that only "defective MPEG file". Then, I've set DVDA to prepare a new folder. VOB files were then created. I dropped these VOB files on Vegas timeline and rendered them again as MPEG2. This new file was accepted by DVDA 2.0. Although this process worked, I think this problem is very weird since I could open the defective MPEG file with applications such as Subtitle Workshop and even could prepare and burn a perfect DVD with DVDA. As I've said, the problem was with previewing and setting subtitles for the file which itself is a process related to previewing the file with DVDA2.0 timeline.
Now I face another problem. I'd like that DVDA2.0 could create an only one VOB file and not 2 of them in the folder. This way would be much easier to drop the "only one file" on Vegas timeline and render it again as MPEG2, instead of having 2 VOB files and having to deal with sync problems, editing, etc. Does anybody have any idea how can I set DVDA to prepare a folder with this only one VOB file, or any other way to do that (MPEG2 to VOB)?
Thanks in advance.

[Cunhambebe]

Since no one should ever tried to respond, I had to find out an answer myself. So here I am to share it with you all, once more. I GUESS THE PROBLEM WITH MY DEFECTIVE MPEG FILE "COULD" BE THIS ONE: I was reading a guide around here on how to create high quality MPEG2 files with TMPGENC (Sony was right, as they responded in their forum saying the problem was with my "ill formed" MPEG file).
This guide says that some applcs don't like MPEG files with minimum bitrate set as 0 (zero). I checked my TMPGENC Encoder config out and I found that 0 (zero) there. At this time, this wouldn't help that much because I don't have anymore all the original files that made up my project. Anyway, I set that minimum bitrate as 200. This should AVOID future problems with TMPGENC for encoding MPEG files.
I found also a terrific guide around here on how to go from VOB to MPEG (which definitely worked much better and faster than the stupidity I was trying to do - getting Vegas to render the VOB again.
It works much better this way. Open DVDA and choose prepare (make a simple project with just the defective file). At the end You'll get a couple of VOB files. But they are split, this we've already known before. You'll have to get TMPGENC DVD AUTHOR to restore the VOB to a new MPEG file. No loss of quality at all. So please, if you are having same kind of problem with MPEG files and your authoring applc, get your couple of VOB files and this:

1. go to:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=224833&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc...ght=mpeg%20vob

2. You'll need TMPGENC DVD author. Just follow the guide above for TMPGENC DVD AUTHOR. Happy, happy, joy, joy

Wanna know the end of my story? DVDArchitect 2.0 accepted the new file and I finally finished those subtitles.
Personal opinion: much easier to make subtitles with DVDA2.0 than any, ANY other apllic.