dvd-lab pro ruining my christmas

[PharmBoy]

Thank you for your help
I put together a home christmas dvd and am having troubles authoring it I am using dvd lab pro 2.0 and took avi files that I created in adobe premiere and dropped them into the encoder in dvd-lab pro the resulting 6 files (3 video 3 audio) were set in the menu. I noticed a couple of concerns in the video audio window
1.) all the video tracks and audio tracks were off in time by 1-3 seconds
2.) one of the files had a 0-GOP error
When I went to compile the dvd I get the following log
Start building Video Title Set ( VTS ) ... - 2001
Title - 1
Start building VOB streams - 2210
Muxing elementary streams is in process ... - 2220
Initializing audio packets ... - 3005
Initializing MPEG 1 audio packet ... - 3020
[INFO] - No subtitle stream is provided - 3739
Verifying Closed Caption file is in process ... - 3750
Muxing is in process ... - 2300
[ERR] The read data size is over the buffer limit - 2901
Authoring is terminated - 2999

If Title 1 is the same as Movie 1,
It is a m2v file of 40:01 and a mp2 file of 40:04
Can someone please help and save our chrismtas
well at least allow me to get some sleep.
Thanks

[Baldrick]

Avi files? what video and audio format?

O try convert to dvd mpeg2 with something else? like export to mpeg2 from premiere? or use a standalone mpeg2 encoder like procoder, hc encoder, quenc, mainconcept mpeg encoder?
Or convert the audio to mp2/ac3 with a separate tool like ffmpeggui or belight.

[PharmBoy]

Thanks baldrick
I was going back and convert the avi with tmpgenc.
Would it be better to just use premiere initially to encode the movie?

Each file is
Frame Size: 720 X 480
Frame Rate: 29.97
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
MPEG Video Type: MPEG 2
Chroma: 4:2:0

[guns1inger]

There is an anomaly in the way DLP calculates the length of video and audio. It is rare they they come out exact. The proof is in the finished DVD, and I have not had sync problems that I could not trace back to source issues, and not DLPs calculations.

A couple of other questions

1. Do you have closed captions ?
2. Have you updated to the latest version (2.21 or better) ?

[PharmBoy]

No I have version 2.1
and no I don't have closed captions
Thanks

[DRP]

FWIW In my experience so far DLP 2 has some major issues and bugs which to date have not been ironed out. For instance, authoring with multiple VTS just simply doesn't work. The end result is an incompatible collection of unfinished VOB files. I kept my installed copy of v1.60 and use that for all projects that v2.xx can't cope with. Fortunately the two versions can co-exist side by side perfectly happily so this is easy to do. I am yet to come across anything that v1.60 can't do.

I have both v1.60 & v2.23 installed.

[ron spencer]

the DVDLab encoder is only really for transitions, etc....even the manual says that. I have no issues using it.

[PharmBoy]

Must have been the encoder
Used TMPENG and re-imported files and it worked great
10 dvds burnt and 70 to go!!
Thanks

[guns1inger]

Look at HCenc - faster speed than tmpgenc and arguably equal or better quality. Or CCE Basic - much faster than either at a reasonable price.