dvd lab not compiling properly

[Buddyboy]

i had a movie separated into a bunch of smaller movies that i wanted to author. it authored fine when i did that but because they were separate i couldnt skip back a chapter once one movie finished.
I joined them but now dvd lab demuxed the video as 4:11 (time) and then audio is 1:59:02, which is correct. Now when i play the video file in dvd lab each clip on the time code is its original length (like the length it was before i joined them) and at the last frame(s) of each of the clips the time code shows some rediculus amout (i.e. 8:15:12 for the first clip, 23xx for another etc.) and when i compile the dvd not all the files are there. there is a _menu.vob, VTS_01.vob, VTS_01_1 etc. No ifo's or bup's this happens if i put the video into a movie segment aswell. Is there something that i am doing wrong? is there a better way to join my mpeg2 files? they were encoded separately in vegas movie studio 4.0

[cd090580]

To fix this,
select your m2v file in the assets then go to the Tools Menu and select Rewrite Gop TimeStamps.

[Buddyboy]

that fixed the time problem but the dvd still only compiles with a "_menu.vob", "VTS_01.VOB", "VTS_01_0.VOB"...etc....why am I not getting any ifo's or bup's?

will I have to join them all in vegas and encode them again?

[cd090580]

you probably have a problem with dvdlab.
Check the output log for any error messages.

For example, I can't compile dvd with more than 2 VTS. If I try I got an Out of Memory error and the process stops.

[Buddyboy]

ah ha!...it was the audio in the menus...lab didnt like it...i took out all of the audio from every menu....im gonna try putting it back one by one to see what the source of the problem is

Thanks for your help!

[reboot]

If DVDlab won't compile, or compiles but with an incomplete set of files (no ifo/bup), there are two reasons.
1) Your assets are messed up.
2) Your menu structure is messed up.

In your case, you discovered it was the audio in one file.
Always do a test compile (with dummy movies) to determine if it's your assets, or structure.

[Butella]

I'm having a similar problem while authoring a DVD with DVDlab too.
But in my case the problem is with the Video I encoded with Motion Menu Rendering included in DVDlab. I already tried all the ways, like first enconding as AVI and then I reenconded as .m2v with TMPGEnc, or directly enconding as .m2v with DVDlab, but neither way worked out..
without this video file the authoring and compiling is just fine, but when I add it, .IFOs and .BUPs files are missing...
I'm going crazy! Don't know what's wrong with this video... it's just like all the other ones: 720x480, 29.97fps, 4:3, NTSC, and it's checked "OK"

What am I doing wrong??

Thanks,
Butella.

[Buddyboy]

hmmm...well my problem was that the audio in the menus was a wav file...i tried ac3 and mp2 and they both worked....must be a file format error of some kind....is there audio in the motion menu? that might be the issue

[Butella]

there is audio in the motion menu too, but it's not the problem... with audio and w/out video, it compile, but with video and w/out audio it doesn't compile, as with both of them.
the video file is in .m2v format, just like all other video files
Is the render motion menu function of DVDlab bad? am I doing anything wrong?

Butella.

[reboot]

Does your menu have the same standards (framerate, aspect, audio sampling rate) as the rest of the project?

[malisamson]

The best solution is to test compile first (from compile menu) there you will see the errors...anyway try to transcode audio to ac3