DVD Lab Issue ?

[guns1inger]

OK. I am authoring a DVD of my daughter's birthday. Pretty simple structure - main menu with two direct play options, one for the main film, and one a slide show, and two sub-menus (scene selection and extras). I decided to do a test burn of what I have so far, which is the main menu, slideshow and extras. The extras are sourced from DV and encoded through Vegas 4 using the mainconcept mpeg2 codec. All are D1 PAL. One extra is sourced from an mpeg1 file, again encoded to mepg2 full PAL. All sound, including the menu backing tracks, is encoded as AC3. The stills for the slide show are processed in photoshop and cropped to PAL 4:3. I am building the disk using DVD Lab 1.3.

When I go to compile the disk, I get a warning that the one item is not D1. Having checked everything, I can't determine which is the item causing the problem, so any help there would be appreciated. I'm not sure this is the root of my problem though.

My problem is this - after compiling, I tested the DVD using Power DVD accessing the files from the hard drive. Everything seemed to work. Next step is a test burn to DVD-RW using Nero. Again, so far so good. Put this in my stand alone player (Pioneer 414 - old, but reads the disks OK). Everything appears to work, except the backing audio for the slideshow does not play. This does work through Power DVD.

Any ideas ?

[pijetro]

One extra is sourced from an mpeg1 file, again encoded to mepg2 full PAL

I'll bet you that this is the thorny one..Why don't you run the .m2v through Bitrateviewer and see what the values are..

How did you rencode your MPEG1 to MPEG2??

[guns1inger]

Again, using Vegas 4 with mainconcept.

I checked out the knowledgebase at DVD Labs (after posting, or course - d'oh), and it has givem me a couple of pointers. I'll let you know how I get on.

[guns1inger]

Main problem solved. The original audio was an mpeg stream, which I converted to ac3 using Vegas. A stray mpeg stream got through and was the issue. Changed it to ac3 and now all is sweet.

Still getting this D1 warning about 1 of the tracks, but they all seem to to be the same - same res (PAL 4:3), same frame rate (25 fps) etc. Seems to play OK in spite of this.

Learned a few new tricks in DVD Lab during this process - love this program. Once I get a bit more comfortable, I'll try out the pro version.

[awlchu]

All audio must be the same (your case AC3) in the same VTS (std version uses only one VTS). This includes the slideshow and menu audio.

Double check what you resized the video to in the slideshow. I always leave the still picture larger than required and let DVD-lab scale it down for me. That way I have no sizing problems.