Chapters trouble with DVD-Lab Pro

[jesterhud]

Hi
I am using DVD Lab Pro to make a DVD of a home movie.

I've used it before with great success, but this one is driving me mad.

I set the chapters, and then index them so the mark above them turns to a green diamond, then go through the motion menu process, and set the menus, i make sure each button on the menus is linked correctly to the relevant chapter and burn it.

When i play it, only the first couple of chapters work, when i try and play the others the DVD just stops and returns to the home page.

Any ideas whats wrong ?

[guns1inger]

A couple of things I would do, regardless of this problem, and that probably won't fix your problem, but . .

1. Frame Index before you place your chapter marks. The point of frame indexing is to give greater accuracy to chapter placement. Index after you place chapters gains you nothing.

2. Never burn without testing from your HDD first. Use PowerDVD or WinDVD, and use the keyboard, not the mouse.

With your particular problem,

1. What was the source ?
2. What was the source container (VOB, mpg, or elementary streams)
3. If the answer to 2 wasn't elementary streams, did you demux in DLP ?

[GeorgeW]

Are you burning to SL or DL discs Is it possible the other buttons point to a section on Layer-2, but the burn did not go correctly?

Regards,
George

[jesterhud]

The source is a VHS tape recorded onto DVD-RW on a DVD recorder.
Then transferred into the PC using TMPGENC .
The source container is VOB files.
I did not Demux in DLP, i dont know what this means ?
I am burning to SL discs.

[tinker]

DVD lab is used to work with elementary streams, so the way to go would be:
1)Let it demux on import
2)Frame index your project
3)Set chapter points.

[aedipuss]

i might add a 1a) to tinker's list. sometimes the mpeg video stream needs to have the timecode corrected. so add tools/rewrite GOP timecode to the list.

[harrisonford]

DVD Lab has tons of problems with chaptering, it is one of the worse programs for chaptering and the work arounds are lots, look into the how to here.

go elsewhere for chapter, you can hand set them all, it is a pain and does not always work.

[jesterhud]

Hi all

Still having trouble with the above, and i am losing the will to live with this.
Heres a quick run down of what i have done.

1. Recorded some VHS clips and Cine film onto my DVD recorder through the TV and a Camcorder, this is all ok.
2. Burnt all 38 clips in total onto a DVD in the DVD recorder.
3. Used DVD decrypter to transfer this movie onto the PC into VOB files.
4. Imported VOB files into DVD Lab Pro, this is where the trouble is, when i do all the menus etc, set the chapters etc (in the order above) one of two things is happening -

If i Demux on import then i get an MPV file and an AC3 files, if i combine these into the movie, set chapters and burn then i get the chapter breaks ok but now the audio is out of synch.

If i dont demux and make a joinedVOB file then the audio is fine but the chapter breaks dont work and i just get one long 2hr movie with no chapters.

Whats going wrong ???????????

[tinker]

First of all I do not understand why you use Decrypter to transfer files on hard drive.
If the DVD is your creation than there is no protection so you can just insert DVD into the player click on OPEN and copy Video-Ts folder (with all the video files in it) to your hard drive.
Once done play that folder in your software player to see if it works OK (video + audio in sync).
Are you running Vista?
Check if you have latest version of DVD Lab.
Demux on import
Frame Index
Set Chapters
If your original is DVD compliant Mpeg2, it should work.
What are the specs after demux for audio and video in DVD lab asset bin?

[guns1inger]

Even for non-protected discs, DVD Decrypter is a hand tool to use to transfer the content to your HDD.

I have never had audio sync problems from muxing with DLP.

I never use anything but elementary streams.

What I would do to test where the problem is occurring is to load the mpv and AC3 files into Media Player Classic and check the sync before authoring.