"Cannot Packetize Audio" (DVD Lab Error)

[Desperate Jip]

This is the message I get while trying to compile my DVD.

DVD Lab 1.3 does not say which of the movies in my project is causing this error and I am not sure how to go about fixing it. If ne 1 can shine a light on what is causing it I would be very grateful. Thx ppl

[pyrohydra]

We need more information. What is your source?

It's possible one or more of your videos has VBR audio. If this is the case you may want to look here.

[Desperate Jip]

Thx 4 the reply m8, soz bout being a little vague, I did some tests and nailed it down to 1 movie clip which is a trailer from one of my commercial discs

This is what AVIcodec says about this particular vob file
Video : 91 MB, 9800 Kbps, 25.0 fps, 720*576 (16:9), MPG2 = MPEG 2 (SVCD/DVD)
Audio : 1.80 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x2000 = AC3 DVM [0x80],

Funny thing is, when I loaded it into TMPGenc's "simple demux" the video output showed but the audio output was blank. And when I tried the normal "demux" both video and audio showed up "ticked" in the selection box but there was no info about the audio so if I try and save it TMPGenc doesnt know what to save it as. Any idea's ...Im all ears....Thx

[andkiich]

If TMPGENc doesn't work with AC3 without the AC3 plugin. Natively TMPGENc doesn not work with AC3.

[Desperate Jip]

Well 1 thing I did forget to mention was that the movie that was giving me jip was put in DVD lab as a motion menu (I had to do this coz it waz a different aspect than my main film). But i,ve sorted it now. what I did was this... I demuxed the vob and even though TMPGenc did not recognize what extension to save it as (I just gave it an ac3 tag). Then I converted it to mp2 with BeSweet and chucked it in DVD Lab with the Vid stream and it gave me no problems. I know I bungled through the whole thing and cant say what the problem was, Im just happy it worked.

I would also like to point out that TMPGenc had no probs giving me the audio info on a vob file (with the same encoding properties) from the same source disc. But until a day comes that I do understand the reasons behind this, i'll just be thankful I got it to work. Thx ppl