DVDLab pro freezes when rendering a motion menu

[andyr74]

I recorder a TV-movie with a hauppauge PVR150. Now I want to author it to DVD with DVDlab. I have done this allready several times without any problem. Normally on the main menu i have 2 button: "play movie" and "chapters".
For this movie I want to make a motion menu. I have 2 movie sequences I want to use as buttons. I dragged the movie twice to the menu and linked it with the movie start and the chapter menu. I also made some menu transitions.
Now I want to make a motion menu. I select both starting points, the length and bitrate. Then I start rendering.
Step 1 (rendering) went well but step 2 (merging object and encoding video frame) doesn't work. It freezes after a couple of frames. I tried it several times and its allways the same.
What can be wrong here? lenght to long? bitrate to low? ...
anyone a suggestion?

[equinox137]

Sounds like an error in the video itself. Try re-encoding.

[andyr74]

Sounds like an error in the video itself. Try re-encoding.

The video is recorded directly as an DVD ready-mpeg with a TV-capture card. I have done this many times before. So re-encoding isn't a very good solution (video quality and time).

[equinox137]

Even so, DVD-Lab is very picky about sources that aren't properly prepared. If it detects anything in the video is not up to spec, it will puke, as it has been doing on you. To get the most out of DVD-Lab, you really have to have a stand alone encoder such as TMPGEnc. In my experience, there's really no way around it.

[guns1inger]

Did you demux the mpeg to elementary streams ?
If so, how - DLP or third party software ?

[andyr74]

Even so, DVD-Lab is very picky about sources that aren't properly prepared. If it detects anything in the video is not up to spec, it will puke, as it has been doing on you. To get the most out of DVD-Lab, you really have to have a stand alone encoder such as TMPGEnc. In my experience, there's really no way around it.

So, even if my pvr card can capture only as mpeg, i still should reencode it to another mpeg (including the loss of quality due to the reencoding).
It is the first time i have this problem. I have done this many times before without problems.

Did you demux the mpeg to elementary streams ?
If so, how - DLP or third party software ?

Yes, i did it with TMPGenc - mpeg tools.

[equinox137]

So, even if my pvr card can capture only as mpeg, i still should reencode it to another mpeg (including the loss of quality due to the reencoding).

It is the first time i have this problem. I have done this many times before without problems..

I'm not saying do that every time, I'm just saying it may fix the problem this time around.