Stuttering, blotches, etc. on dvd player/winDVD but fine using MPC?

[RydiaAngel]

Hey, I've authored a dvd using DVD Lab Pro 2.18 and am burning it using Nero to a Memorex 16x DVD+R Lightscribe DVD at 8x, and have a lot of problems playing it back on a dvd player. I used a multi-PGM title to make the main movie, and each chapter is encoded/demuxed in the exact same way.

It seems that chapters 1-4 of the movie stutter and hiccup occasionally (audio and video) on the dvd player and 5-8 play fine. On WinDVD/MPC, they play fine. I thought maybe it was the stream headers, but when I used DVDLab's "Fix Stream Headers" it said they were fine already.

Theres no audio on WinDVD/dvd player for all of my still menus and one of my motion menus. But, at least 5 of my other motion menus play fine. Even my audio for the compiled DVD (the DVD on the pc, not the one I burned) doesn't work for these menus). I've tried recompiling repeatedly and they dont work. I thought maybe the ac3 files weren't compliant so I used ac3fix but it says its already ok.

The other movie tracks play horribly (bad stuttering/blank video occasionally/blotches).

I have a Set Up menu like this example from DVD-Lab. On the DVD Player, not only will the audio not play because of the problem above but when I start pushing the buttons randomly to test how well they switch menus, it starts bringing up blotches of color occasionally or redirecting me to the wrong menu. On WinDVD/MPC they work fine. The actual mechanism (changing audio and video) work fine.

Changing from the main motion menu to other still menus sometimes produce blotches of pink/miscellaneous colors across the screen when played from the dvd player

I tried playing it on a PS2 and it gives a disc read error.

On Media Player Classic everything play absolutely perfect, both the compiled dvd and burned dvd.

I'm thinking it may be a bad burn/problem with the compilation (since theres no audio in winDVD for the compilation). I'm going to try changing a few things to see if the audio get fixed and try burning a few more dvds.[/url]

[Baldrick]

Have you tried any different dvd media? or -R media?

[RydiaAngel]

Yea, the media I tried was apparently mid-to-poor range (CMC MAG.M01). I just looked it up using DVD Identifier. Sorta pisses me off because these lightscribes cost quite a bit more than normal dvds.

I'm going to try burning with some Fujifilm DVD+R (YUDEN000T02).

In the meantime, it still won't clear up the problem with the screwy audio though. When I compile the dvd in DVD-Lab and play it in WinDVD theres still no audio for a few of the menus. Not quite sure why this is so

[Krispy Kritter]

I'm not familiar with DVD-Lab, but it sounds like an issue within the app itself. Possibly not adding the audio or audio reference in the menu structure.

[RydiaAngel]

It was BeSweet >><<. The menus whose audio wouldn't work were audio I had to convert from mp3 to ac3 using BeSweet (I used BeSweet to convert wav -> ac3 with dvd compliant audio, that's why I didn't notice). Now I'm converting the mp3 to wav and wav->ac3 using dvd-lab. Works now ^_^