DVDLab background music problem on Menus

[Jolard]

I am having trouble with DVDlab and background music on menus.

I am using dvdlab 1.2.2 (latest)

I am creating menus, both with still pictures and with motion menus. They work perfectly, until I add music to the menus. The menus work perfectly on my PC, and on my cheapo Taiwanese DVD player. However on my Toshiba 3109, the music will play for a couple of seconds, then the menu will freeze up.

It does that if I use either mp3 or ac3. I have the music settings to default (inf) so it is supposed to set the timeout to the length of the audio.

Since it is working on one DVD player and not the other, I am inclined to think it maybe poor coding. The first thing I would think of is media, but I have tried different media and it does the same no matter what.

Also, audio works perfectly on movies, just not the menus.

Audio files are the correct bitrate, etc, and they work fine if attached to movies, just not on the menus.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a workaround, and is this a known bug? Thanks for any help!

[volksman]

I'm having the EXACT same problem....

The movie plays fine if you select the play movie button I have on my first menu...(there is music in there but it never freezes...?) then if you select the Chapters menu I created it hangs....if you leave it long enough it will blip another note from the music then freeze....then blip....then freeze and so on....

I also created an "Info" type button to give info about the authors of the movie I am trying to burn and it only has one button (a "Back" button) and it freezes no matter what....

Any help would be VERY MUCH appreciated!!!

[housepig]

this might be a known bug - check the DVD Lab forum at www.mediachance.com (sorry, at work, don't have the exact link).

I've seen posts there that everything over 1.15 is very buggy.

[mkelley]

In addition to housepig's excellent advice, remember that *all* audio in a DVDLab project needs to be exactly the same type, encoded exactly the same way. Which is to say you can't mix and match AC3 with PCM, or AC3 at 224 with AC3 at 192 (a particular problem if you are using VOBs ripped from somewhere -- best bet is to leave the sound out in those cases, as you probably won't be able to match it up otherwise).

And, yes, sound mismatching will cause exactly these sorts of problems (freezing during menus or playing).

[housepig]

housepig's excellent advice

well, I wouldn't go that far....

[mkelley]

All props where deserved... <g>.

BTW, here's the URL for DVDLab forum:

http://www.mmbforums.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=9

[volksman]

I haven't hit the forums yet (actually about to read them now) but (sorry for lack of terms I'm new to this...:

1) Why would the menu freeze in a sub menu not the main menu? I have the same audio file in both but only one freezes up.

2) I read somewhere here that to get some reliability in DVDLab audio menus to encode the audio file using TMPGenc into a .mp2 and then importing it. Does this still stand?

[mkelley]

I'm no expert on the audio issues here (nor do I play one on TV) but I can tell you for the *most* reliability you're better off encoding to AC3 from your PCM file. The guidelines for using BeSweet here on this site work very well.

TMPGenc does a lousy job at audio encoding -- even the experts who like it as an encoder do not recommend it for audio encoding. There are lots of better alternatives.

[volksman]

thx muchly....will play and report back if I have more questions...