DVD-Lab Playback Problem

[vcand]

Hello all.

I am going insane trying to solve this problem. I enjoy the ease and functionality of DVD-Lab but I am having troubles with the final product. What is happening is this. I build all my menus and such and add the videos and everything looks right. I burn the project and take it to my stand alone. The menus works with no problems but when I click the "Play" link or even chose a specific point under a chapters menu it goes to play the video and then bounces right back to the main menu as if the link is to the main menu. I've tried burning the project with nero (as well as other burning software) and I've tried exporting it to a .img file with no success. I've encoded the video a few times just to make sure it was correct. I've even done single play setup where it just plays the movie with no menus. Whatever I do it does not work, BUT if I were to encode only like 15-30seconds of video (instead of the complete 1 hour) then it all works fine. Is there some limitation inside DVD-lab for large videos or do I need to adjust some setting? I've put the video itself into Ulead and it works without a problem (I just can't stand it's design functions). So could it possibly be a problem with how DVD-Lab is formating the files? I've read a lot of posts talking about how to make a dvd compliant and none of the suggestions work, any ideas?

[phuocle]

It's definitely a bug in DVD-Lab. I've experienced similar issues. Actually, DVD-Lab itself doesn't produce compliant files and that does cause weird problems in certain DVD players. I had a problem playing a DVD authored with DVD-Lab and can't play it in a newer Panasonic or Sony player. Really wacky.

Now, here's the kicker. When I author the same video with the exact same audio on the menus, etc. in DVD-Lab Pro, it plays fine on my Panasonic or Sony. In fact, I've not had a problem with authored DVD's with DVD-Lab Pro from Beta 3 until now.

When that is officially released, I will buy the Pro version because I like the interface and the features are worth it to me. If you can't justify the price for the Pro version, I don't know what to tell you.

Bottom line, as far as I know, there's no fix for what you're seeing.