dvd lab pro isnt compiling?!

[Goku]

i use dvd lab pro. i have 6 movies and one menu, each movie has 2 audio streams and a subtitle stream. when i compile the files ready for burning, it starts, then it says it is muxing (the 1st movie) and when it gets halfway (halfway through muxing the first movie not the whole process) through it says it is completed (but it isnt). this is really annoying and driving me mad. it is dvd lab pro beta 11 (the latest version at the time i wrote this post) so i cant see it being a bug cos it never happened in previous versions. anyone got a clue what i should do?

[SaSi]

Have not used beta 11 (yet), but this has happened to me with previous versions (beta 3, if I remember well).

It appears that DVDLab is overly sensitive to audio tracks. I used MPEG audio produced by MainConcept and in the past there was no way I could compile a project. If there was a single movie on the project, muxing would crash and abort. With more than one movies, it would either crash or just stop. Where it says "Done!", a few lines above that in the compile progress window will most likely show an error message.

A quick way to verify what's wrong is to make a dummy new project, import the first video and first audio track and compile this as a single movie. If it compiles ok, then import the second audio track and retry. if it fails, it's the second audio track. (if it fails on the first, it's the first).

Re-encode the audio using the DVDLab audio transcoder. replace the offending audio track with the new one and try again.

In my cases, it always worked.

I have found that DVDLab doesn't like (although it should) MPEG audio encoded as Joint Stereo. Use Stereo instead.

[Mr_khyron]

Read:
http://www.mmbforums.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=7497

Download DVDLab Pro B12:
http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/historypro.html

Fixes
- subtitles muxing crashing
- various other muxer related fixes (crashing, lockups, audio problems)

[bbulldog]

cant find a link to download the pro version, can anyone help?

[SaSi]

cant find a link to download the pro version, can anyone help?

http://www.mediachance.com/files/DVDlabProB12.exe

[bbulldog]

thanks SaSi, could not find a link on thier homepage for the demo

[Goku]

i have updated to beta 12 and it worked fine through muxing. but i have a different problem now. after it has finished the 5th movie (placing navigation parameters) it says
runtime error! abnormal program termination.
someone please help me im sick of this. it has worked for me before but why not now?

[SaSi]

i have updated to beta 12 and it worked fine through muxing. but i have a different problem now. after it has finished the 5th movie (placing navigation parameters) it says
runtime error! abnormal program termination.
someone please help me im sick of this. it has worked for me before but why not now?

Is there a 6th movie? According to your original posting, there is. My best bet is to re-encode the audio of the 6th movie and retry. Since it is boring to wait for that, perhaps create a new project with just the 6th movie in it will be faster.

[Goku]

sasi you were correct it was the 1st audio stream on the 6th movie and it was mp2 file but instead i encoded to a wav file (which i didnt want to do because they're huge) and now it seems to accept that, except it has an arror box saying something about different audio types on the same VTS. i dont even know what VTS means but it said i could ignore the error and it might still be playable. what do you think.

[SaSi]

sasi you were correct it was the 1st audio stream on the 6th movie and it was mp2 file but instead i encoded to a wav file (which i didnt want to do because they're huge) and now it seems to accept that, except it has an arror box saying something about different audio types on the same VTS. i dont even know what VTS means but it said i could ignore the error and it might still be playable. what do you think.

It won't (should not) be playable - depending on the tolerance of the DVD player.

VTS stands for Video Title Set. Movies in there must have the same characteristics (frame size) and audio tracks the same as well (encoding type).

You should encode using the DVD LAb re-encoder not to WAV (LPCM) but MPEG. This would keep the audio track equally small as the original and remove whatever problem DVD Lab finds there.

Which MPEG encoder did you use to create the offeding video/audio track ? What are the properties displayed by DVDLab about the first audio track ? I would be interested to know if it is a Joint Stereo audio track. I have realized that DVDLab PRO doesn't "like" joint stereo audio at 128kbps. But not all of the time - which is frustrating.

I make it a rule to encode audio in Stereo mode (instead of Joint Stereo) and at 160kbps or higher. Since then, I never had trouble importing audio into DVDLabPro.