no more than one audio track

[Tolster]

Hello there, guys.
I hope you can help me with my last problem (the overall DVD creation process for this movie is driving me mad).

I have extracted the streams from a MKV, edited them, cut them, resized them, joined them, everything I need in order to get it to work on my DVD player.

So, basically, I've turned a Xvid 872X352 @23.98 into a Divx 720x290 @23.98 held within a black frame 720X576 (for my PAL tv). Two audio tracks, MP3 or PCM I don't recall (does not matter because I've tried many combinations).

The problem is that: as long I mux a single track with the soundless video I coded, everything goes fine (which one of the tracks I use is irrelevant, both of them work), but when I add a second audio, the video stops playing roughly at half of the entire movie lenght. This is with most of the common media players, some may recognize the entire film (MPlayer can).
VDubMod recognize the entire video and audio streams, and extract them correctly and entirely.
I've not yet burned it.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance

[Baldrick]

What container are you using? .avi or divx. AVI with multiple audio tracks may not work that well in all software players.
What do you use to mux? vdubmod? If so try instead avimuxgui.

[Tolster]

Thanks for your reply.
It's an AVI with divx6.8 codec.

already tried avimuxgui, it gave me even worse output. Video stopping at minute two of play.

what kind of container do you suggest? I think my table DVD player can reproduce MP4 only, BTW.

[Baldrick]

mp4 only? Isn't it a divx dvd player? Then it should support .avi and .divx.

And I would try convert the pcm to mp3 and use two mp3 tracks.

[Tolster]

I meant mpeg4.

[jman98]

I meant mpeg4.

MPEG-4 is HIGHLY UNLIKELY to work correctly on your DVD player. I personally only know of one old player that would even attempt to play this container format. While there may be a few more that will play it now that I don't know about, the odds are high that you don't have one of those players. Don't be surprised if that doesn't work.

I suppose I should add that if you live in the USA what I said is true for sure. If you live in Europe, players that theoretically support MP4 are slightly more common. Typically though people use AVI containers for Divx.

[Tolster]

yes, I live in Europe, and mpeg-4 support is phisically written on the top of the player

anyway, now I've tried to burn the file on DVD. It plays a few minutes (15) then stops. It stops at a different point it stops on PC media players...

[guns1inger]

Mpeg-4 usually means generic support for Xvid/Divx encoded avis using non-Divx licensed hardware. They have the same basic restrictions on resolution and file size as Divx certified/licensed players. After muxing the second audio into the file, how big is it ?

[Tolster]

Soundless video is 3,42 GB.
Video+first track is 3,56 GB.
Video+both tracks is 3,70 GB.

[jman98]

guns1inger is quite right. Saying it supports "MPEG-4" on the top of the player does NOT necessarily mean it supports the MP4 container. They are NOT the same thing.

Some DVD players won't fully (or at all) support files over 2 GB in size. Go here and look at a sticky that lists potential playback problems on DVD players.
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic352457.html

[Tolster]

Thanks for all your replies.

As a side note, regarding a problem described in the OT (video with two audio tracks playing until half of the entire length only), earlier today I've installed avi2dvd along with avisynth, and magically the video started to work perfectly on every media player I have. Then, for a test, I removed avi2dvd and the avi returned to reproduce only the first part.

Something (codec, dll) avi2dvd or avisynth have and I don't