Last problems needs to be solved!

[Slim_Jim]

We're almost finished with our project now and currently we're betatesting the DVD and ran into some problems.

1. I've got some clips in a playlist, when I press "next" on the remote, it doesn't play the next clip in the playlist, but a randon one of every clip on the DVD. Not just the ones in the playlist. It just picks any clip at random and plays it.

2. My slideshow isn't very smooth. Every time it changes picture the music chops a bit. It's an mp3 that I've encoded to wav and imported to DVD Lab, then re-encoded to AC3 224kbyte. I've got 98 pictures in it, all JPG format and some of them are in quite high resolution and are therefore pretty large in filesize. Could it matter?

I've searched around a while on this forum and found a post where someone said that this was a common problem when playing the DVD on a Phillips player. And in fact thats exactly what we're testing the DVD on. Is this really the case or could it be some other problem? Anyone made a succesfull slideshow and played it on a Phillips player?

[thecoalman]

2. My slideshow isn't very smooth. Every time it changes picture the music chops a bit. It's an mp3 that I've encoded to wav and imported to DVD Lab, then re-encoded to AC3 224kbyte. I've got 98 pictures in it, all JPG format and some of them are in quite high resolution and are therefore pretty large in filesize. Could it matter?

Does it do it when you play it on the PC or another DVD player? That will eliminate your player as the source of the problem. If it's still choppy the next thing to try is a couple of short video clips with transitions to see if the problem persists. Or see if the problem persists if you use something other than MP3. From there:

1. Try some different discs.
2. Try some different software.
3. A slower burn rate.


The sizes of the images don't matter, they are resized by whatever software your using. Since they are choppy during the transitions it's possible whatever software your using is choking at that point. You can prepare them in an image editing application which should give you a better result in the end anyway. Better image editiors will have batch capabilities for doing multiple images at once.

For full screen images:

1. Crop to whatever ratio your output is (16:9 or 4:3). Better image editing application will have this option. By doing this you'll be able to maintain the correct aspect of the image. Balls will still be balls instead of footballs.

2. Resize to whatever your video output is (720x480....). This will skew your images particularly if 7your using 16:9 but when played back they'll look perfect.

3. Apply a slight blur, this will eliminate flickering on the TV.

4. If the option is available convert to NTSC/PAL safe colors.