DVDLab NOT accepting my MPG - Pls help

[mysticmel]

I have recently downloaded the trial version of DVD Lab and so far I have to say it's by far the most powerful authoring tool of its kind --- love the munu building flexibilty! However, I was quite disappointed to come to find out that it wouldn't accept my mpeg2 ready file which was created with a DVCII. Here's my deliema ... hope somebody can lend some insight on what I may be doing wrong or overlooking.

NOTE - I should also mention ... this very same file was accepted with no poroblem at all by both DVD Complete and MovieFactory!!! And both will play the compilation perfectly; vobs in Power DVD as well as burned DVD-RW in standalone players with NO PROBLEM.

Also, to make another thing clear - the problem that I'm having is with the AUDIO stream, not the VIDEO in any way shape or form. I get perfect video.

My understanding (as a newbie) to DVDLab is that the user is on his/her own as far as feeding dvd compliant file(s) into a compilation ... and if the file isn't dvd compliant the app will automatically demux the file and allow the user to apply the proper settings (which in my case I used the MP3> PCM for the audio) for all other files in my compilation and which worked. When I dragged the troubled file from the asset bin into the movie filmstrip, it did not prompt me in any way to reencode the audio nor did anything error wise come up before compiling ... and it's status showed up as OK. After compiling I tried playing it's ifo in PowerDVD by 'open dvd file on hard disk' and got perfect video playback for the troubled file, but no audio. The same results apply for the dvd burn. I then decided to try reencoding the file again in TMPGE using ES (video&audio)/DVD NTSC ... applied the freshly encoded m2v and the mp2 (did the PCM convert when prompted) and now I'm still right back at where I started - PERFECT VIDEO, ABSOLUTELY NO AUDIO!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kay

[andkiich]

When the MPEG2 files was demuxed, what was the audio rate 44khz or 48khz?

DVD-Lab will assume you have everything compliant if you do not demux, but if you demux it will give you a warning message if you have the option set to do so. There is a "relaxed" compile option that will allow a lot more leeway into what is acceptable.

There is a transcode audio option. Try using that on the audio file in question and see if that helps.

I think that the other authoring programs that you use automatically transcode the audio and video into compliant files. At least I know that DVDComplete does, I used to use it.

Let us know if the transcode audio fixes your issue.

[FOO]

If you make sure you have a legal MPEG2 System stream
you can feed it to DVDlab Without letting it
demux, and it will work.
MP3 audio is not DVD legal, and PCM wastes too much space.

I'll bet that if you feed it your M2V and MP2 without letting

it convert , it will work.

[mysticmel]

[quote="andkiich"]When the MPEG2 files was demuxed, what was the audio rate 44khz or 48khz?

Thanks andkiich and Foo for your replies and THANKS A BUNCH for trying to help!

Yes andkiich it was definately encoded in 48khz. That was the very first thing that I checked.

[quote="foo"] If you make sure you have a legal MPEG2 System stream
you can feed it to DVDlab Without letting it demux, and it will work.

It's definately a legal mpeg2 file ... as I said in my original post, it was captured and processed as so with the DVCII along with a few others in which I had no problems with authoring w/DVD Lab.


Any other ideas, suggestions, etc?

Thanks again, Kay

[proxyx99]

I use DVDLab as well. It can only accept certain MPEG formats (check help file). Is your MPEG full D1 or half D1? You may force DVDLab to accept nonstandard files but with caution, the outcome may be crappy.
Check MPEG resolution (is it 704 or 720 format). You may force DVD lab to prompt you for demux in Properties / Options.