data will arrive too late error

[ecc]

I was given a DVDR of a film. When I played it, the DVD player said "bad disc" and I reloaded it a couple times before it played. I then ripped it to my computer to remultiplex the streams thinking that would solve the problem. Turns out the bitrate was higher than the target bitrate. DVDAuthorGUI completed the process but I worry that it might still have a problem playing on DVD players. I then reencoded the whole thing including the audio. I checked the bitrate with videocalc.exe before encoding. Now, when I try to author a DVD, I get the "data will arrive too late" error even though the bitrate is well below the target bitrate. The audio bitrate was 224 kb/s so I then plugged it into BeLight and lowered the bitrate to 192 and still got the same error. When I encoded the video, the GOP was 15 which should be okay for NTSC. I used HCEncGUI v22 which I've had success with before on many occasions (when I output to a different m2v instead of writing over the original m2v when the input is an avs). This project was once a labor of love but now I'd really just like to get it off of my harddrive onto a viewable DVDR.

[borax]

Try reencoding with an older version (0.21) of HC. I remember a similar problem some weeks (month?) ago...

[manono]

When I encoded the video, the GOP was 15 which should be okay for NTSC.

Not if you're encoding for 23.976fps with pulldown.

And, indeed, there was a problem with buffer underflows with version 22. There's a 22.1 beta available now which fixes the issue:

http://www.mediafire.com/?9pozg2ynimz

[ecc]

Reencoding with HC 0.21 worked. I hope, however, that whatever the issue is with .22 is fixed in the next version because 0.22 is faster even if the new interface takes a bit of getting used to.