Broken Chapter Menu Links in DVD-LAB!

[Triptothane]

Hello, I recently purchased a 12 dvd set of a television show I watched when I was young. The menu's are very nicely animated but most of the links do not work. Even more confusing is how the same menu appears for a good bit of the dvd's besides them having differing content. I have recreated all menu's in photoshop and have created my own motion menus.

Working on the first disc and running into some problems!
My source dvd files amount to around 3.20Gb but end up being around 1.5GB when compiled. The menu buttons are correctly linked to each chapter point and yet only the first one works. Two others lead to unset chapter points and the rest do nothing.

I do recieve the open GOP's error when importing the vob files.
Please help me out here, I have 11 more to go after this and once I get passed the 1st I should be able to finish the project quickly.

Here is the compile log
*** DVD Aa2 Pro Verification Log ***
12 - 30 - 2006 -- 19:30:23


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* VMG Verification *
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Number of VTS - 1
Number of Menus: 1


Menu 01 - Type - Dummy

Number of imported VTS: 0

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* VTS Verification *
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<<< VTS Number 1 >>>
Number of Titles: 4


Title 01 - Type - VOB
Segment 1, Video File C:\Users\Bob Ferguson\Desktop\DOUG - Disc One - Season One\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
Frame size: 720 X 480
Frame rate: 4 [1--23.976, 2--24, 4--29.97, 3--25, 5--30]
Aspect Ratio: 43 [43--4:3, 169--16:9]
Chroma: 1 [1--4:2:0, 2--4:2:2, 3--4:4:4]
Audio Stream Count: 1
Subtitle Stream Count: 0
Audio type: PCM_16, Channel: 1, Sampling: 48000, Bitrate: 1536000


Title 02 - Type - VOB
Segment 1, Video File C:\Users\Bob Ferguson\Desktop\DOUG - Disc One - Season One\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.VOB
Frame size: 720 X 480
Frame rate: 4 [1--23.976, 2--24, 4--29.97, 3--25, 5--30]
Aspect Ratio: 43 [43--4:3, 169--16:9]
Chroma: 1 [1--4:2:0, 2--4:2:2, 3--4:4:4]
Audio Stream Count: 1
Subtitle Stream Count: 0
Audio type: PCM_16, Channel: 1, Sampling: 48000, Bitrate: 1536000


Title 03 - Type - VOB
Segment 1, Video File C:\Users\Bob Ferguson\Desktop\DOUG - Disc One - Season One\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.VOB
Frame size: 720 X 480
Frame rate: 4 [1--23.976, 2--24, 4--29.97, 3--25, 5--30]
Aspect Ratio: 43 [43--4:3, 169--16:9]
Chroma: 1 [1--4:2:0, 2--4:2:2, 3--4:4:4]
Audio Stream Count: 1
Subtitle Stream Count: 0
Audio type: PCM_16, Channel: 1, Sampling: 48000, Bitrate: 1536000


Title 04 - Type - VOB
Segment 1, Video File C:\Users\Bob Ferguson\Desktop\DOUG - Disc One - Season One\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.VOB
Frame size: 720 X 480
Frame rate: 4 [1--23.976, 2--24, 4--29.97, 3--25, 5--30]
Aspect Ratio: 43 [43--4:3, 169--16:9]
Chroma: 1 [1--4:2:0, 2--4:2:2, 3--4:4:4]
Audio Stream Count: 1
Subtitle Stream Count: 0
Audio type: PCM_16, Channel: 1, Sampling: 48000, Bitrate: 1536000



Number of Menus: 4


Menu 01 - Type - Dummy


Menu 02 - Type - Still
nMenu cell count - 1

Menu Image File C:\Temp\75845824_tmp1.bmp
Picture size - 720 x 480
Menu Audio File C:\iSofterOutput\Title 1 [VOB]-Chapter 2-0.mp2
Audio type: MPEG, Channel: 2, Sampling: 48000, Bitrate: 192000
Menu Sub-Picture File C:\Temp\75845824_tmpsub1.bmp
Picture size - 720 x 480


Menu 03 - Type - Motion
Menu Video File C:\Users\Bob Ferguson\Desktop\Doug\Dougx\Menu 2.mpg
Frame size: 720 X 480
Frame rate 4 [1--23.976, 2--24, 4--29.97, 3--25, 5--30]
Aspect Ratio: 43 [43--4:3, 169--16:9]
MPEG Video Type: 2 [1--MPEG 1, 2--MPEG 2]
Chroma: 1 [1--4:2:0, 2--4:2:2, 3--4:4:4]
GOP 1, size - 420854
GOP 2, size - 111412
GOP 3, size - 490493
Menu Audio File - None
Menu Sub-Picture File C:\Temp\133481272_tmpsub1.bmp
Picture size - 720 x 480
nMenu cell count - 1


Menu 04 - Type - Motion
Menu Video File C:\Users\Bob Ferguson\Desktop\Doug\Dougx\Menu 3.mpg
Frame size: 720 X 480
Frame rate 4 [1--23.976, 2--24, 4--29.97, 3--25, 5--30]
Aspect Ratio: 43 [43--4:3, 169--16:9]
MPEG Video Type: 2 [1--MPEG 1, 2--MPEG 2]
Chroma: 1 [1--4:2:0, 2--4:2:2, 3--4:4:4]
GOP 1, size - 420851
GOP 2, size - 111415
GOP 3, size - 490496
Menu Audio File - None
Menu Sub-Picture File C:\Temp\76946144_tmpsub1.bmp
Picture size - 720 x 480
nMenu cell count - 1

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Start building Video Title Set ( VTS ) ... - 2001
Title - 1
Start building VOB streams - 2210
Rewriting VOB streams is in process ... - 2420
Measured VOBU size does not match with recorded VOBU size. This unit is skipped - 2996
Creating PGC for the title is in process ... - 2500
Title - 2
Start building VOB streams - 2210
Rewriting VOB streams is in process ... - 2420
Creating PGC for the title is in process ... - 2500
Title - 3
Start building VOB streams - 2210
Rewriting VOB streams is in process ... - 2420
Creating PGC for the title is in process ... - 2500
Title - 4
Start building VOB streams - 2210
Rewriting VOB streams is in process ... - 2420
Creating PGC for the title is in process ... - 2500
Creating dummy menu is in process ... - 2790
Creating still menu is in process ... - 2700
Start encoding bitmap ... - 2750
Reading bitmap is in process ... - 2740
Initializing audio packets ... - 3005
Initializing MPEG 1 audio packet ... - 3020
Audio stream is provided - 3017
Encoding bitmap and building VOBU is in process ... - 2450
Audio packetizing ends - 3025
Creating motion menu is in process ... - 2600
Muxing is in process ... - 2300
Creating motion menu is in process ... - 2600
Muxing is in process ... - 2300
Building VTS IFO stream is in process ... - 2800
Start building Video Manager (VMG) ... - 2005
Creating dummy menu is in process ... - 2790
Creating still menu is in process ... - 2700
Start encoding bitmap ... - 2750
Reading bitmap is in process ... - 2740
[INFO] - No audio stream is provided - 3019
Encoding bitmap and building VOBU is in process ... - 2450
Building VMG IFO stream is in process ... - 2850

*** Post Verification ***

No error was found in the post verification process

Authoring is successfully completed - 3900

[guns1inger]

To begin with, I don't understand how the content can go from 3.2gb to 1.5gb during compilation. DVD Lab shouldn't reduce the size at all, let alone by over 50%.

Second, always demux your audio and video and use the elementary streams in DLP. Don't use VOBs from other sources as the assets. DLP is designed to work best with elementary streams, which is why it asks to demux when you try to use VOBs.

Third, are you linking all your chapter points manually ? DLP doesn't import chapter points from VOBs automatically.

[Triptothane]

What program should I use to demux the vob files? All chapter points were added manually. The reason for the small output size is that its only taking clips from the vobs instead of the entire video.

[aedipuss]

maybe if you imported the entire movie as a whole(drag vob1 to assets and select join and demux) or imported each episode as a separate movie you would have an easier time. also it looks like from the log you have no main(1) vts menu? that won't work at all.

[Triptothane]

Thx your suggestion worked. Used join option and demultiplexed file to elementary. Chapters work fine now.