Authored a DVD with 2 movies, but IFOs don't match !

[darthvonpokemon]

I've been editing a friend's films for months now and have finally gotten the menus with music, trailers, etc done for him to submit to a distributor. It contains 2 features on there as a double feature (since each is only over an hour). I included trailers to other friends' films as well. Sound good so far ? The problem is that the file structure I mad under Ulead MF is too big to fit to a single layer disc. It plays fine on PowerDVD. When I try to compress it down with DVD2one (or DVDshrink), I keep getting messages that the IFOs are incorrect. I pulled them from folder and had IFOedit make me some new ones. The chapter points are all over the place now and the menus are missing. Restored old IFOs for now and am banging my head on the desk over this since all the original MPEGs are gone and I'm stuck with VOBs I'm scared to death of destroying after months of work. Anyone know how I can fix this ?
Thanks,
CK

[jimmalenko]

So there's an issue with the distributor creating DL discs then ?


Needless to say, this is why everyone keeps saying "always backup" and "never delete your sources until you've got the finished product"

[darthvonpokemon]

What DL discs ? It hasn't made it off of my computer yet since the whole point was to release it as a double feature to send to distribution companies. If it plays ok on Cyberlink as the finished DVD should, why would I keep a ton of MPEGs, etc hogging up space that I could use to get to the next step ? IFOedit has said the same thing about VOB size being incorrect when checking VTS sectors and has supposedly fixed it. We'll see.
CK

[jimmalenko]

What DL discs ? It hasn't made it off of my computer yet since the whole point was to release it as a double feature to send to distribution companies. If it plays ok on Cyberlink as the finished DVD should, why would I keep a ton of MPEGs, etc hogging up space that I could use to get to the next step ? IFOedit has said the same thing about VOB size being incorrect when checking VTS sectors and has supposedly fixed it. We'll see.
CK

If it's too big to fit on a single layer disc, then can't you just burn it to a Dual Layer disc ?

... or don't you have a DL burner ? I assumed that since you were trying to fit a SL disc that the distributor must have "required" a SL disc ...


I ain't gonna argue with you regarding keeping the source. If you can't see that the ability to "go back to square one" and start from scratch is necessary/handy then I'm preaching to the wrong crowd

[darthvonpokemon]

My bad. Thought you meant "downloaded video" LOL. That's why I'm compressing it down to fit on a single layer (besides not having a dual layer burner).
Running the supposedly fixed files through DVD2one now. If you spent as much time with badly shot footage of actresses who can barely read, let alone act, you'd delete the source material ASAP as well LOL. I at least know where the problem is coming from even if I can't fix it yet.
CK

[jimmalenko]

Slight communication problem, Houston .....


I was thinking that the VOBs themselves are the ones holding the chapter points, etc so as long as they're OK, then it shouldn't be too bad/hard to recreate/fix the IFOs. Maybe IFOUpdate ?

IFOEdit's Get VTS Sectors may or may not fix the problem too.

[darthvonpokemon]

I have about 15 minutes left on DVD2one's latest attempt to see if everything is good to go. Then I'll try out IFOUpdate since IFOedit is what I've been using so far (unsucessfully- it already failed the DVDshrink test again right away).
CK

[jeanl]

darthvonpokemon,
All hopes might not be lost! You can still try an IFO mock strip on your DVD. I have found that most of the time, this fixes my problems.
First make a backup of the DVD (both VOBs and IFOs) (a simple copy to another directory) just to be sure .
Then open the IFOs, one by one in IFOEdit. For each of them:
- Click the Menu Extra and make sure your settings are like this:

- Click OK.
- Then click VOB Extra and make sure your settings are like this:

- Click OK, then click Save and answer OK to all questions.

Do that for all IFOS (including VIDEO_TS.IFO). What this does is that it resynchronizes the pointers inside the VOB files, and re-adjust the IFOs with the VOBs. I'll be surprised if this does not fix your problem... but who knows...
jeanl