DVD re-muxing problem

[saggitarius]

A big HEY to anyone who can offer advice.

I am trying to create a multi movie DVD of a bunch (12 in fact) animated Xmas specials to give out as Xmas gifts to some family and co-workers. I actually created this same DVD last year for myself and borther in law's kids, but this year I have two movies to add and am also including a PLAY ALL link that I got tips for from a previous posting here (Thanks to Baldrick and Shadowmistress BTW)

My problem is that one of the movies keeps crapping out on me when I try to compile the DVD. It gives me a serious error about not being DVD compliant and I should try re-encoding the movie. I have isolated which movie is causing the problem and have attempted to re-rip and re-encode it a few times, even upping the specs to DVD quality. DVDLab complained about having two different formats in the same VTS (which I ignored) but I still get the serious error message.

Here are some specifics.

All files are SVCD spec, burnt to multi movie DVD last year. I re-ripped the mpegs this time using this DVD, instead of using the originals. Using SmartRipper, DVD2AVI then TMPGEnc to encode, using SVCD-CQ settings, 48kHz 224 kb/s audio, 100 quality and highest quality (slowest) to encode to get maximum results from an already encoded file.

All the movies play fine on my PC using PowerDVD and look great.

This is a 2 DVD set and the second DVD burnt fine and plays well on my standalone.

I am currently tring to re-encode this file again. I have burnt the DVD onto a new disc and am using that one, suspecting a possible problem with the prior one.

Anyone got any other suggestion, or should I just continue with this?

Thanks

[Shadowmistress]

That movie probably has a different aspect ratio than the other movies you have. If it does, reencoding it won't matter. Each VTS can only contain one type of aspect.

You need to put that movie on a separate VTS in dvdlab.
1. In your project window create VTS2
2. Create a new movie under VTS2 and import the problem movie there.
3. Open your connections window and create 2 bridges.
4. Draw connections from bridge 1 to your movie and from your movie to bridge 2, then from bridge 2 back to the root menu.
5. Open your root menu and link the button that would normally point to this movie to bridge 1 instead.

If this movie is not a different aspect ratio (4:3 vs 16:9) then import this movie back into your assets and copy/paste what the error window tells you to a post here.

And btw, you're welcome.

[saggitarius]

Once again, the great Shadowmistress comes to the rescue

And again, your advice was bang on.

I am now experiencing a new problem, and would greatly appreciate your help. When I load the DVD in my standalone, it doesn't go to the Root Menu, it plays the first movie instead. I don't see anything in my connections window that would suggest this. Perhaps you can help again. I am including a screen capture if it may help.

[pijetro]

Well, seems like both your first play item and title button are directing towards the playlist, rather than the root menu...

[Shadowmistress]

Pijetro's right. The way you have it set up now you're disk launches into the playlist when first inserted. Just draw connections from first play to root menu and from title to root menu. That's all you need.

And, I see that VMG menu is empty. Are you using it? You know you can right click on it and delete it right?

Oh and by the way, if you don't want the disk going back to the root menu after every movie played, draw connections from one movie to the next and then to the next in the sequence you want them played. When they're undrawn that way, they automatically go back to the root after play.

Then you might want to have a random playlist instead of a normal one to mix up the order the titles get played in. If you do this I'd suggest 2 new bridges. (Actually, this is a little harder to set up because of the 2 VTS so let me know if you want to include it before I explain it all.)

Ok, I'll shut up now. It's just that you can tell so much from that screenshot that I got excited. :P

[saggitarius]

The empty VMG menu is there because DVDLab is complaining about the playlist. I made a PLAY ALL link at the bottom of my Root Menu to play all the movies sequentially. When I try to compile the DVD, it suggests I create a empty VMG menu to overcome the player possibly locking up.

As for the movies going back to the Root Menu after they finish, yes I do want that IF the PLAY ALL isn't selected.

In response to pijetro, I agree, it did seem to me that they were pointing in the same place, even though I didn't create it that way. That was not what I was attempting, and until I created the bridges to overcome the original problem (the DVD spec and SVCD spec movies) that wasn't the case.

I will try to fix and report if and when I do solve this.

Once again, mucho gracias!!!!