Time display is messed up.

[zakman]

Hi all,

I just authored a DVD using IFOedit's author capability (input was a m2v and ac3 file). I burned to DVD using Ulead MF2. The movie plays fine on my settop DVD player, but the player's time display keeps flashing between two times. At the beginning of the movie, the two times are very close to each other, but by the end, they are off by several minutes. Can anyone explain how to fix this problem?

I suspect IFOedit might be the problem based on a couple of other posts, but I don't know any other way to take take a video and audio stream file and burn them to DVD without re-encoding.

[FOO]

Put a can of beer in front of the time display


or try restream to reset the timestamps

[zakman]

Thanks Foo. I tried restream, but the problem still exists. I wonder if the problem is with IFOedit. Do you know of a way I can test this idea? Is there another tool that I can use to take my two stream files (audio and video) and create a VIDEO_TS folder with appropriate files?

I really would like to fix this problem because I am worried that if I play my DVD on another player, it might not play. Also, it is pretty anoying.

[Micke@home]

Are you working with a NTSC source? You can try rejig.
I don't know what that SW will do but a friend of mine had a time related problem using IFOedit together with a NTSC movie (adding a new subtitle)which was solved by using rejig instead.

[zakman]

For anyone interested...

I just tried using DVDAuthorgui in place of IfoEdit and the problem went away. I used the same stream files, so I think it is safe to say that the stream files were not the problem (unless DVDAuthorgui does some extra magic which IfoEdit does not do). DVDAuthorgui is a nice little program that doesn't seem to get much attention. It works for me anyway.

Thanks for all your suggestions.