Freezing files

[beardo]

I made a dvd of the bmw hire series. I used Maestro to author the disk, and nero to burn. It plays fine on the PC, plays fine in an old PS2 (wont play at all on a new PS2) but on my Pioneer 717 it will play and the menu works fine, but when it comes to the actual films they all freeze within a second. I can still scan through them just not play them Im using datawrite disks (+R) and an hp burner. Each film is its on .vob file on the disk, would i be better going for 1 file with many chapters? or is that being totaly newb. The video is 2 pass VBR and the audio is .ac3.

Also when i preview in maestro all is fine, but when i try and view the compiled disk in winDVD or powerDVD i can never see the menu? whats that all about.

Any help on either of the problems much apreciatedm though its the freezing i need to fix.

[jmbuis]

I've had a similar problem about dvd freezing after 1 second play at any chapter. In fact in my case it was due to the audio track not being compliant with the standalone player, maybe not even compliant with dvd standard.

The audio track was ac3 encoded with besweet. The hint was that no audio was to be heard, even in the custom made menu.

I ended up replacing the ac3 track by a mpeg1 track just for testing and it worked perfect.

Hope this helps

PS Maybe the culprit is not besweet but dvdmaestro. Anyway, the audio track was faulty in the end

[beardo]

wow thanks jmbuis, was thinking no one was ever going to reply

i also used besweet for ac3, ill try youre suggestion.

thanks again

[beardo]

I recompiled the project using mp2 files instead of ac3 and it plays fine, but the sound doesnt come out of the digital ouputs, only the standard outputs (scart+phonos) of my dvd player, not a massive problem but would rather digital for ease of connection. I will try further tests with ac3 but use something other than besweet.

But at least the project works mind i still dont know why the menu fails on teh PC