User Error (MINE) in TMPGEnc DVD Author ?

[hech54]

Can anyone see anything wrong with these specs? This is from a DVD with a STUPID Menu that I want to replace. I ripped the video with DVDShrink…removing the stupid menu….but when I re-create the DVD with TMPGEnc DVD Author ….the resulting AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders end up being only 266MB in size. I tried it twice with the same exact results. There are 10 chapters which TDA recognised perfectly but I just can’t seem to work out what is going wrong.
These specs are from Ulead MF2:
Video :
MPEG-2 Video
4:3 Ratio
720 x 480 Size
105209 Frames
8000 Kbits/sec

Audio :
MPEG-1/2 (no extension) Audio
stereo Mode
48.00 kHz
2 Channel(s)
384 Kbits/sec

This is a TDA screenshot:

The original DVD is home made...not a factory production one.
Thanks in advance if you can shed some light.

[guns1inger]

Everything there looks normal. A quick back of the envelope says the movie is around 58 minutes long. At a CBR of 8000, you should get a Video_TS folder of around 3.6GB.

Unfortunately, I can shed no light as to why you are only getting 266MB after authoring.

If you play the authored DVD from the HDD folders, what do you get ?

[hech54]

I get nothing....PowerDVD opens it....goes from Widescreen to Fullscreen....then nothing. VERY weird.
When I open the re-authored folders again in TDA I get 3:55 minutes/seconds of perfect video.
Video :
MPEG-2 Video
4:3 Ratio
720 x 480 Size
7076 Frames
8000 Kbits/sec

Audio :
MPEG-1/2 (no extension) Audio
stereo Mode
48.00 kHz
2 Channel(s)
384 Kbits/sec

[guns1inger]

I would suggest there is a corruption in the ripped files somehow that prevents it being fully processed by TDA. You could try demuxing the files and building it up again from scratch. Before that, try a new rip with DVD Decrypter, just to be sure.