NEW problem, NO title info in DVD folder, gui4dvdauthor

[theewizard]

3 times, same video & audio stream

no errors during run, 4 vobs produced, vobs will play, but IMGburn will not burn the files and winDVD will not play the folder

imgburn says there is no title sets in the ifo and bup files

video_ts.ifo is zero bytes, vts_01_0.ifo is only 5 k instead of 60-80k

opening with pgc edit shows nothing in there

fixvts and info edit show nothing but the menu size and the DAR

I've never seen this problem before, I thought once was a fluke (3) in a row is crazy

(2) questions, how can i take the exsiting vobs and create the needed ifo files to have a working folder i can burn,

and what is wrong with gui4dvdauthor

its doing this with both muxman and dvdauthor

the m2v came from cce via dgpulldowm, there are NO errors or flags during the run

the ifo files are useless

[guns1inger]

Post the compile log from GDA so we can have a look at it.

[borax]

As guns1inger said, without the log(s): No idea.

[theewizard]

sorry should have put that in the first post

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

c:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>Time: 6/12/2007 7:36:28 PM

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c:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>Time: 6/12/2007 7:36:29 PM

author DVD
MuxMan version 0.15Q
Opened script file c:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp\muxman.mxp
Accepted video c:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\My Videos\New Folder\2001-2.avi.mpv.pulldown.m2v size = 4053111456
Accepted audio C:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\My Videos\New Folder\.2001-2.avi.AC3
Accepted image c:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp\MMBackg.bmp
No useable audio found for PGC "MainMenu"

19:36:31 Begin multiplex VTS01.
Title Segment List
Segment_1
Maximum audio duration 323924 fields.
Starting scene Segment_1_scn1 at 00:00:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn2 at 00:06:00:02, requested for 00:06:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn3 at 00:12:00:06, requested for 00:12:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn4 at 00:18:00:12, requested for 00:18:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn5 at 00:24:00:05, requested for 00:24:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn6 at 00:30:00:14, requested for 00:30:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn7 at 00:36:00:09, requested for 00:36:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn8 at 00:42:00:06, requested for 00:42:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn9 at 00:48:00:11, requested for 00:48:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn10 at 00:54:00:06, requested for 00:54:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn11 at 01:00:00:04, requested for 01:00:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn12 at 01:06:00:11, requested for 01:06:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn13 at 01:12:00:14, requested for 01:12:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn14 at 01:18:00:14, requested for 01:18:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn15 at 01:24:00:12, requested for 01:24:00:00
SeqEnd at F195929C.
Bytes remaining in buffer = 0.
Bitrate - avg: 6315088, min: 4321054 (lba 785539), max: 7954669 (lba 51247).
Shortest GOP has 12 fields, longest GOP has 30 fields.
Fields: 323925, VOBU: 10635, Sectors: 2082988.
Reference to non-existant scene "Segment_1_scn16" from PGC "TitleSet1_Title1_PGC1"

c:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>Time: 6/12/2007 8:28:07 PM

Batchrun finished


c:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>

this log is from the third & final run

[borax]

You (or GfDs automatic?) have set a chapter (Segment_1_scn16) behind the end of the movie.

I will include this error in the error checks (within the next GfD version) to avoid a 'false positive' authoring result.

[theewizard]

what i did , was set for a chapter every 6 minutes, this is what i always do, I don't count them, normally everything runs find, and the last chapter is just a few minutes, i have never had this error before.

could this be a freak timing occurance ? i will use a different setting and try again

by the way gspot and media info and mpc all report the source as 90 minutes NOT the 84 gfd got to, it seems there should have been a 16th segment

i will play the last vob and look for problems

any quick way to make a ifo/bup menu vts set for these vobs, with another program, i tried pgc edit, but i don't know anything about editing the blank NEW set to make a correct file set


I played the last vob all the way thru, it plays perfectly, i can find no sign of error or reason for the problem that occured with gui when authoring

next i will check the m2v file

is there no program that will read the vob cells and create the video_ts ifo bup files

OR do i have to re-author again

[borax]

...all report the source as 90 minutes NOT the 84 gfd got to

Do you always have such big differences? What is shown as duration for the audio file? Can be a problem with NTSC (pulldown/drop frame) timecodes which are not very easy to deal with (and not used at all in Germany - therefore I don't have a lot of testing material...)

...OR do i have to re-author again
Yes, I think so. You can use the saved project file (if any) and just delete the last chapter.

[theewizard]

I re-authored, changing the chapter duration, to 8 minutes, apparently with the 6 minute timing chapter 15 finished right at the end, maybe leaving a few cells ( i don't know ) but didn't signal end of file, and there wasn't anything to process for chapter 16

I would try your idea, but the 8 minute timing worked

here is the log

c:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>Time: 6/13/2007 1:33:42 PM

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c:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>Time: 6/13/2007 1:33:43 PM

author DVD
MuxMan version 0.15Q
Opened script file c:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp\muxman.mxp
Accepted video c:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\My Videos\New Folder\2001-2.avi.mpv.pulldown.m2v size = 4053111456
Accepted audio C:\Documents and Settings\Mr Wizard\My Documents\My Videos\New Folder\2001-2.avi.AC3
Accepted image c:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp\MMBackg.bmp
No useable audio found for PGC "MainMenu"

13:33:45 Begin multiplex VTS01.
Title Segment List
Segment_1
Maximum audio duration 323924 fields.
Starting scene Segment_1_scn1 at 00:00:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn2 at 00:08:00:14, requested for 00:08:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn3 at 00:16:00:06, requested for 00:16:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn4 at 00:24:00:05, requested for 00:24:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn5 at 00:32:00:06, requested for 00:32:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn6 at 00:40:00:06, requested for 00:40:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn7 at 00:48:00:11, requested for 00:48:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn8 at 00:56:00:06, requested for 00:56:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn9 at 01:04:00:10, requested for 01:04:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn10 at 01:12:00:14, requested for 01:12:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn11 at 01:20:00:10, requested for 01:20:00:00
Starting scene Segment_1_scn12 at 01:28:00:05, requested for 01:28:00:00
SeqEnd at F195929C.
Bytes remaining in buffer = 0.
Bitrate - avg: 6315091, min: 4321054 (lba 785539), max: 7954669 (lba 51247).
Shortest GOP has 12 fields, longest GOP has 30 fields.
Fields: 323925, VOBU: 10636, Sectors: 2082989.

14:29:23 Begin multiplex VMG.
Menu Segment List
Segment_MainMenu
Encoded stream 20 is script stream 1.
Maximum audio duration 0 fields.
new graphics buffer size 414720.
SPU buffer size 8192.
graphics buffer size 1244160.
Starting scene MainMenu_scn1 at 00:00:00:00
SeqEnd at 18555.
Bytes remaining in buffer = 0.
Bitrate - avg: 1702233, min: 1702233 (lba 0), max: 1702233 (lba 0).
Shortest GOP has 2 fields, longest GOP has 2 fields.
Fields: 30, Still fields: 28, VOBU: 1, Sectors: 52.
14:29:25 End multiplex.

c:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>Time: 6/13/2007 2:29:35 PM

Batchrun finished

c:\Program Files\GUI for dvdauthor\Temp>

note that the seq end data, number of fields and the numbers of sectors was exactly the same

from both logs

the is 90 min 14 sec and ?

apparently a very freak timing condition, a new error check will probability fix it.. at least I know what do do if i see it happen again