DVD Shrink Error

[sacajaweeda]

This is not an error that I got ripping or copying a DVD. It's a title set i made myself from an mpeg capture that went way over. The AV streams are like 5.2 gb total and I went ahead and authored it anyways with DVD Lab and was just gonna shrink it down to fit but it keeps erroring out on me. I've done this a few times but never had this problem before.

Anyways, here's the error:





I've searched and from what I've read so far, people getting this error are usually getting it trying to back-up a DVD. Rip with DVD Decryptor first, then back-up with DVD Shrink seems to be the common response/solution, but that doesn't appear to apply to my problem here, as it's a title set I authored myself and already have local on the HD.

Anybody encountered this or have a solution?

Thanks.

[jyn999]

Have you tried other versions? Latest one is version 3.2.

[sacajaweeda]

Yes I've tried version 3.2 as well as 3.1 on three different computers and I keep getting the same error.

[jyn999]

Have you tried to play the DVD LAb authored files with a software DVD player?

[sacajaweeda]

A little more info...

Here's where I'm at/what I've done so far on this project:

Captured video from cable TV box via DVC-100 USB device. Stream is hardware encoded on the fly to MPEG2, with MPEG layer2 audio, 48k, 384k audio. Capturing @ 352x480, at roughly 4.3 Mbps, VBR.

Next step us trimming out all the commercials with Womble's MPEG-VCR and saving to new files.

File(s) as in plural. The capture application I am using with this piece of hardware splits files at 9 GB, so my source clip is actually in two parts. One 9 GB file and another that's about 8-900 megs or so.

I am trimming the commercials out of each clip with MPEG-VCR and resaving them to new files, then I use the MPEG tools in TMPGEnc to merge the two files.

Next up:

I'm in NTSC land, so I'm ripping the audio from my new MPEG file and saving to WAV using VirtualDubMod and converting to AC3 with BeSweet.

Good to go. Onward...

Next step I use the MPEG tools in TMPGEnc to do a simple demultiplex, discarding the mpeg audio.

Next...

Load the AV streams into DVD Lab and author a title set like usual. This of course gives me a set of folders that needs to be shrank to fit on a DVDr.

And here we are, getting this error.

I'm thinking if anything the problem is where I've spliced the files together. I haven't had this problem before doing everything exactly the same. The only difference is I never had to join the clips together because my captures haven't ran beyond the 9 GB limit of my capturing application.

Any thoughts on this?

[sacajaweeda]

Have you tried to play the DVD LAb authored files with a software DVD player?

Yep.

[jyn999]

I'm thinking if anything the problem is where I've spliced the files together. I haven't had this problem before doing everything exactly the same. The only difference is I never had to join the clips together because my captures haven't ran beyond the 9 GB limit of my capturing application.

It's either your capture program or DVD Lab that can't handle the oversized file. Can you trim the down to less than 9 GB?

[sacajaweeda]

I would if I could, but the last 15 minutes or so are in that second file, so I have to splice it. FWIW, the files check out ok with a scan in MPEG-VCR as well as VDubMod. No GOP errors, no timecode errors, no bad frames or anything. Then I edit them and splice the two files and demux the streams, so the file I am feeding DVD Lab to author is only about 5.2 GB or so, give or take a few hundred megs. Also a scanned and error free file. I've authored plenty of oversized title sets and shrank them in the past without this error, so I think we can rule out DVD Lab not handling a file that big.

Any other ideas?

Maybe there's a better way to merge the files than the tools in TMPGEnc?

[sacajaweeda]

OK....just a follow-up.

I wasn't able to get DVD Shrink to compress my title set and create a set of folders on local disk, but I was able to get it all the way through the process saving it as an ISO image without erroring out like it kept doing earlier when I was having it create the folders locally. Everything burned and checked out okay, but I'm kinda wondering what happened because I've never had this problem before. Not a solution, but I was able to "limp through it" and the objective was ultimately reached, as I have my newly created DVD, but still. I prefer a solution rather than lucking out so to say, but I guess that's better than nothing, which is what I was looking at before.

ANYways......................