Time counter only shows movie as half its proper length

[imthesponge]

I have authored a DVD with DVDAuthorGUI, but when I play it (both in software and on a JVC XV-S502), the reported time is exactly half of what is shown when I play the original mpg file. Because of this, the chapter points are later than they should be.

The mpg was muxed with mplex and subtitles added with spumux.

This is the XML that DVDAuthorGUI creates:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dvdauthor dest="D:\Video\Enterprise\Enterprise - Ending Part 1 DVD">

  <vmgm>  
  </vmgm>
  <titleset>
      <titles>
       <video format="ntsc" />
       <subpicture lang="EN" />
       <audio lang="EN" />
        <pgc>
          <vob file="Z:\Video\Enterprise\DVD\Enterprise - Ending Part 1 DVD (subbed).mpg" chapters="00:00:00.00,00:02:18.00,00:13:51.00,00:25:11.00,00:35:22.00" />
          <post>exit; </post>
        </pgc>
      </titles>
  </titleset>
</dvdauthor>

This is the log (shortened):

DVDAuthorGUI 0.999b - 5/5/2005
Send problems with DVDAuthorGUI to liquid_217@hotmail.com 
 ***please wait while the titles are multiplexed. 
 *authoring title(s)..... 
 DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.12-alpha-2992. 
 Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype 
 Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net> 
  
 INFO: Locale=C 
 INFO: Converting filenames to US-ASCII 
 INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS 
 STAT: Picking VTS 01 
  
 STAT: Processing Z:\Video\Enterprise\DVD\Enterprise - Ending Part 1 DVD (subbed).mpg... 
 WARN: not a valid DVD frame rate: 24000.0/1001.0 (NTSC 3:2 pulldown converted FILM) 
 WARN: Audio pts for channel 32 moves backwards; please remultiplex input. 
 WARN: Previous sector: 2.193 - 3.194 
 WARN: Current sector: 3.193 - 3.193 
 WARN: Audio pts for channel 32 moves backwards; please remultiplex input. 
 WARN: Previous sector: 3.193 - 5.196 
 WARN: Current sector: 5.193 - 5.193 
 WARN: Audio pts for channel 32 moves backwards; please remultiplex input. 
 WARN: Previous sector: 5.193 - 6.194 
 WARN: Current sector: 6.193 - 6.193 
 WARN: Audio pts for channel 32 moves backwards; please remultiplex input. 
 WARN: Previous sector: 6.193 - 7.194 
 WARN: Current sector: 7.193 - 7.193 
 WARN: Audio pts for channel 32 moves backwards; please remultiplex input. 
 WARN: Previous sector: 7.193 - 9.196 
 WARN: Current sector: 9.193 - 9.193 
 STAT: VOBU 16 at 11MB, 1 PGCS 
 WARN: Audio pts for channel 32 moves backwards; please remultiplex input. 
 WARN: Previous sector: 9.193 - 11.196 
 WARN: Current sector: 11.193 - 11.193 
 WARN: Audio pts for channel 32 moves backwards; please remultiplex input. 
 WARN: Previous sector: 18.163 - 19.164 
 WARN: Current sector: 19.163 - 19.163 
 STAT: VOBU 32 at 23MB, 1 PGCS 
 WARN: Audio pts for channel 32 moves backwards; please remultiplex input. 
 WARN: Previous sector: 19.163 - 21.166 
 WARN: Current sector: 21.163 - 21.163 
* more of the above *

 WARN: Video PTS does not line up on a multiple of a field. 
  
 INFO: Video pts = 0.193 .. 1253.703 
 INFO: Audio[8] pts = 0.193 .. 2507.257 
 INFO: Audio[32] pts = 2.193 .. 2499.694 
 STAT: VOBU 3872 at 2848MB, 1 PGCS 
 INFO: Generating VTS with the following video attributes: 
 INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2 
 INFO: TV standard: ntsc 
 INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3 
 INFO: Resolution: 352x240 
 INFO: Audio ch 0 format: mp2/2ch, 48khz 20bps, 'en' 
  
 STAT: fixing VOBU at 11MB (17/3872, 0%) 
 STAT: fixing VOBU at 23MB (33/3872, 0%) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -8308 (vobu #43, pts 14.444) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -8500 (vobu #44, pts 14.778) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -8693 (vobu #45, pts 15.111) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -8888 (vobu #46, pts 15.445) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -9082 (vobu #47, pts 15.779) 
 STAT: fixing VOBU at 35MB (49/3872, 1%) 
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -9261 (vobu #48, pts 16.112) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -9453 (vobu #49, pts 16.446) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -9648 (vobu #50, pts 16.780) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -9840 (vobu #51, pts 17.113) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -10060 (vobu #52, pts 17.447) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -10253 (vobu #53, pts 17.781) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -10446 (vobu #54, pts 18.114) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -10638 (vobu #55, pts 18.448) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -10831 (vobu #56, pts 18.782) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -11023 (vobu #57, pts 19.115) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -11215 (vobu #58, pts 19.449) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -11410 (vobu #59, pts 19.783) 
  
* more of the above *
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -728755 (vobu #3869, pts 1252.869) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -728948 (vobu #3870, pts 1253.202) 
  
 WARN: audio sector out of range: -729139 (vobu #3871, pts 1253.536) 
 STAT: fixing VOBU at 2848MB (3873/3872, 100%) 
 STAT: fixed 3872 VOBUS                          
 INFO: dvdauthor creating table of contents 
 INFO: Scanning D:\Video\Enterprise\Enterprise - Ending Part 1 DVD/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO 
 Could Not Find D:\Video\Enterprise\Enterprise - Ending Part 1 DVD\*.mpg 
 *process complete

Thanks for any help.

[imthesponge]

Now that I've checked it, the reported time is exactly half of the actual time (if I seek to the end, the player shows half of the actual length). If I play the source MPG file in Windows Media Player, the time is shown correctly.

[guns1inger]

How were your files encoded ? I have seen CCE do odd things because the default starting time is 1 hour, not 0

[imthesponge]

The video was encoded with TMPGEnc and the audio with BeSweet.

Also, I just tried authoring the DVD with IfoEdit, and it has the same problem. Though it wouldn't play in Nero Showtime so I just copied the IFOs from the other one, maybe that had something to do with it. I'll try to get the IfoEdit generated ones to work.

[imthesponge]

The IFOs generated in IfoEdit don't seem to work in Nero Showtime.. I don't know why..

[imthesponge]

Okay, I got them to work, I changed the res in both IFOs from 352x240 (the actual res) to 720x480. Now it plays correctly, except that the playing time is 33 minutes instead of approx. 41 minutes. That's 4/5 of the actual time, so it must be playing at 30fps instead of 24, right? It isn't noticeably faster than the original, though. I think it's only when I seek that the time goes screwy.

[liquid217]

you did set tmpgenc to encode to 23.976 (internally 29.97) right? To me, it doesn't sound like the pulldown flags have been inserted.

[imthesponge]

That setting "23.976 (internally 29.97)" isn't listed in my TMPGEnc..

Wait, if I put the encode mode to "3:2 pulldown when playback" it shows up.. I will see if it works. Thanks.

It turns out I encoded at the wrong res anyway, so reencoding is a good thing. lol