GUI for dvdauthor: The infamous SCR error.

[jedinix]

Hello all,

I use GUI for dvdauthor and I spent a few hours on a project, yet I come across an unpleasant error. It seems to be an infamous problem: ERR: SCR moves backwards, remultiplex input. Also, when I dragged the .VOB file that I have (I had 4 .VOB files that I combined with command prompt command vob1.vob+vob2.vob etc.). The result is called Adelaide.VOB. When I drag it onto my project, it says:
Inconsistent Timecodes! SCR=1.48sec, GOP = 8241.60 sec.
ChapEditGFD will probably not work properly.
GFD will use GOP for duration...
Then it gives me the window, and I put in my own chapters (text based). So then I make my menus and everything, I click "Create DVD" which it gives me this:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp>Time: 3/8/2008 6:37:24 PM

(shrink and) mux video and audio files

C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp>Time: 3/8/2008 6:37:24 PM
*creating MMback.m2v
INFO: [png2yuv] Parsing & checking input files.
INFO: [png2yuv] Image dimensions are 720x576
INFO: [png2yuv] Movie frame rate is: 25.000000 frames/second
INFO: [png2yuv] Non-interlaced/progressive frames.
INFO: [png2yuv] Frame size: 720 x 576
INFO: [png2yuv] Now generating YUV4MPEG stream.
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Selecting DVD output profile
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Encoding MPEG-2 video to C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp\MMBackg .m2v
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Horizontal size: 720 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Vertical size: 576 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Aspect ratio code: 2 = 4:3 display
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame rate code: 3 = 25.0 (PAL/SECAM VIDEO / converted FILM)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Bitrate: 7000 KBit/s
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Quality factor: 1 (1=best, 31=worst)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Field order for input: none/progressive
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Sequence unlimited length
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Search radius: 16
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP SIZE RANGE 9 TO 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting colour/gamma parameters to "PAL B/G"
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Progressive format frames = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting hi-res intra Quantisation matrix
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting hi-res non-intra quantiser matrix
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Buffering 39 frames
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING MMX and EXTENDED MMX for QUANTIZER!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for MOTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING MMX for TRANSFORM!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for PREDICTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP LENGTH = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame start 0 I 0 0
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame end 0 393.94 393.94 8.1 8.12
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP LENGTH = 0

C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp>Time: 3/8/2008 6:37:25 PM
*mux to MMback.mpg
INFO: [???] mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [???] File C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp\MMBackg .m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [???] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [???] Found 0 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [???] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [???] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp\MMBack g.m2v)
INFO: [???] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [???] Frame width : 720
INFO: [???] Frame height : 576
INFO: [???] Aspect ratio : 4:3 display
INFO: [???] Picture rate : 25.000 frames/sec
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 7000000 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [???] CSPF : 0
INFO: [???] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [???] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 7144744
INFO: [???] target data-rate specified : 10080000
INFO: [???] Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
INFO: [???] Scanned to end AU 0
INFO: [???] Run-in Sectors = 88 Video delay = 12873 Audio delay = 16473
INFO: [???] New sequence commences...
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [???] STREAM e0 completed @ frame 0.
INFO: [???] Multiplex completion at SCR=4388.
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 180387 frame=000000 sector=00000029
INFO: [???] VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
INFO: [???] Video Stream length: 57181 bytes
INFO: [???] Sequence headers: 1
INFO: [???] Sequence ends : 1
INFO: [???] No. Pictures : 0
INFO: [???] No. Groups : 1
INFO: [???] No. I Frames : 1 avg. size 57181 bytes
INFO: [???] No. P Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
INFO: [???] No. B Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
INFO: [???] Average bit-rate : 11436000 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Peak bit-rate : 0 bits/sec
INFO: [???] BUFFERING stream too short for useful statistics
INFO: [???] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
*creating menufile MMMenu.mpg
DVDAuthor:pumux, version 0.6.14-GfD-1.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype
Send bugs to <gfd@boraxsoft.de>

INFO: Locale=C
INFO: Converting filenames to US-ASCII
STAT: 0:00:00.000
INFO: PNG had 2 colors
INFO: PNG had 2 colors
INFO: Constructing blank img
INFO: Pickbuttongroups, success with 1 groups, useimg=1
INFO: Found EOF in .sub file.
INFO: Max_sub_size=620
INFO: 1 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: 0.18

C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp>Time: 3/8/2008 6:37:25 PM
*creating TS1back.m2v
INFO: [png2yuv] Parsing & checking input files.
INFO: [png2yuv] Image dimensions are 720x576
INFO: [png2yuv] Movie frame rate is: 25.000000 frames/second
INFO: [png2yuv] Non-interlaced/progressive frames.
INFO: [png2yuv] Frame size: 720 x 576
INFO: [png2yuv] Now generating YUV4MPEG stream.
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Selecting DVD output profile
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Encoding MPEG-2 video to C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp\TS1Back g.m2v
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Horizontal size: 720 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Vertical size: 576 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Aspect ratio code: 2 = 4:3 display
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame rate code: 3 = 25.0 (PAL/SECAM VIDEO / converted FILM)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Bitrate: 7000 KBit/s
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Quality factor: 1 (1=best, 31=worst)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Field order for input: none/progressive
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Sequence unlimited length
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Search radius: 16
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP SIZE RANGE 9 TO 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting colour/gamma parameters to "PAL B/G"
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Progressive format frames = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting hi-res intra Quantisation matrix
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting hi-res non-intra quantiser matrix
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Buffering 39 frames
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING MMX and EXTENDED MMX for QUANTIZER!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for MOTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING MMX for TRANSFORM!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for PREDICTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP LENGTH = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame start 0 I 0 0
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame end 0 338.00 338.00 7.0 7.00
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP LENGTH = 0

C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp>Time: 3/8/2008 6:37:25 PM
*mux to TS1back.mpg
INFO: [???] mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [???] File C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp\TS1Back g.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [???] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [???] Found 0 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [???] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [???] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp\TS1Bac kg.m2v)
INFO: [???] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [???] Frame width : 720
INFO: [???] Frame height : 576
INFO: [???] Aspect ratio : 4:3 display
INFO: [???] Picture rate : 25.000 frames/sec
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 7000000 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [???] CSPF : 0
INFO: [???] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [???] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 7144744
INFO: [???] target data-rate specified : 10080000
INFO: [???] Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
INFO: [???] Scanned to end AU 0
INFO: [???] Run-in Sectors = 88 Video delay = 12873 Audio delay = 16473
INFO: [???] New sequence commences...
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [???] STREAM e0 completed @ frame 0.
INFO: [???] Multiplex completion at SCR=4096.
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 183392 frame=000000 sector=00000027
INFO: [???] VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
INFO: [???] Video Stream length: 54176 bytes
INFO: [???] Sequence headers: 1
INFO: [???] Sequence ends : 1
INFO: [???] No. Pictures : 0
INFO: [???] No. Groups : 1
INFO: [???] No. I Frames : 1 avg. size 54176 bytes
INFO: [???] No. P Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
INFO: [???] No. B Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
INFO: [???] Average bit-rate : 10835200 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Peak bit-rate : 0 bits/sec
INFO: [???] BUFFERING stream too short for useful statistics
INFO: [???] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
*creating menufile TS1Menu.mpg
DVDAuthor:pumux, version 0.6.14-GfD-1.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype
Send bugs to <gfd@boraxsoft.de>

INFO: Locale=C
INFO: Converting filenames to US-ASCII
STAT: 0:00:00.000
INFO: PNG had 2 colors
INFO: PNG had 2 colors
INFO: Constructing blank img
INFO: Pickbuttongroups, success with 1 groups, useimg=1
INFO: Found EOF in .sub file.
INFO: Max_sub_size=5812
INFO: 1 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: 0.18

C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp>Time: 3/8/2008 6:37:26 PM
*creating SM1back.m2v
INFO: [png2yuv] Parsing & checking input files.
INFO: [png2yuv] Image dimensions are 720x576
INFO: [png2yuv] Movie frame rate is: 25.000000 frames/second
INFO: [png2yuv] Non-interlaced/progressive frames.
INFO: [png2yuv] Frame size: 720 x 576
INFO: [png2yuv] Now generating YUV4MPEG stream.
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Selecting DVD output profile
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Encoding MPEG-2 video to C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp\SM1Back g.m2v
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Horizontal size: 720 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Vertical size: 576 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Aspect ratio code: 2 = 4:3 display
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame rate code: 3 = 25.0 (PAL/SECAM VIDEO / converted FILM)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Bitrate: 7000 KBit/s
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Quality factor: 1 (1=best, 31=worst)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Field order for input: none/progressive
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Sequence unlimited length
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Search radius: 16
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP SIZE RANGE 9 TO 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting colour/gamma parameters to "PAL B/G"
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Progressive format frames = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting hi-res intra Quantisation matrix
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting hi-res non-intra quantiser matrix
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Buffering 39 frames
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING MMX and EXTENDED MMX for QUANTIZER!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for MOTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING MMX for TRANSFORM!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for PREDICTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP LENGTH = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame start 0 I 0 0
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame end 0 342.31 342.31 7.7 7.69
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP LENGTH = 0

C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp>Time: 3/8/2008 6:37:26 PM
*mux to SM1back.mpg
INFO: [???] mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [???] File C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp\SM1Back g.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [???] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [???] Found 0 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [???] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [???] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp\SM1Bac kg.m2v)
INFO: [???] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [???] Frame width : 720
INFO: [???] Frame height : 576
INFO: [???] Aspect ratio : 4:3 display
INFO: [???] Picture rate : 25.000 frames/sec
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 7000000 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [???] CSPF : 0
INFO: [???] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [???] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 7144744
INFO: [???] target data-rate specified : 10080000
INFO: [???] Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
INFO: [???] Scanned to end AU 0
INFO: [???] Run-in Sectors = 88 Video delay = 12873 Audio delay = 16473
INFO: [???] New sequence commences...
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [???] STREAM e0 completed @ frame 0.
INFO: [???] Multiplex completion at SCR=4242.
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 181534 frame=000000 sector=00000028
INFO: [???] VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
INFO: [???] Video Stream length: 56034 bytes
INFO: [???] Sequence headers: 1
INFO: [???] Sequence ends : 1
INFO: [???] No. Pictures : 0
INFO: [???] No. Groups : 1
INFO: [???] No. I Frames : 1 avg. size 56034 bytes
INFO: [???] No. P Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
INFO: [???] No. B Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
INFO: [???] Average bit-rate : 11206800 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Peak bit-rate : 0 bits/sec
INFO: [???] BUFFERING stream too short for useful statistics
INFO: [???] MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
*creating menufile SM1Menu.mpg
DVDAuthor:pumux, version 0.6.14-GfD-1.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype
Send bugs to <gfd@boraxsoft.de>

INFO: Locale=C
INFO: Converting filenames to US-ASCII
STAT: 0:00:00.000
INFO: PNG had 2 colors
INFO: PNG had 2 colors
INFO: Constructing blank img
INFO: Pickbuttongroups, success with 1 groups, useimg=1
INFO: Found EOF in .sub file.
INFO: Max_sub_size=6120
INFO: 1 subtitles added, 0 subtitles skipped, stream: 32, offset: 0.18

C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp>Time: 3/8/2008 6:37:26 PM

author DVD
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14-GfD-1.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype
Send bugs to <gfd@boraxsoft.de>

INFO: Locale=C
INFO: Converting filenames to US-ASCII
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp\TS1Menu .mpg...

INFO: Video pts = 0.183 .. 0.223
INFO: Audio[32] pts = 0.183 .. 0.183

STAT: Processing C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp\SM1Menu .mpg...

INFO: Video pts = 0.183 .. 0.223
INFO: Audio[32] pts = 0.183 .. 0.183
STAT: VOBU 2 at 0MB, 2 PGCS
INFO: Generating VTSM with the following video attributes:
INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
INFO: TV standard: pal
INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3
INFO: Resolution: 720x576

STAT: Processing C:\Downloads\Video\adelaide.vob...
STAT: VOBU 16 at 3MB, 1 PGCS
STAT: VOBU 32 at 8MB, 1 PGCS
STAT: VOBU 48 at 12MB, 1 PGCS
STAT: VOBU 64 at 16MB, 1 PGCS
ERR: SCR moves backwards, remultiplex input.

C:\Users\goettlek\Documents\GFDOutDir\Temp>Time: 3/8/2008 6:37:28 PM

Any ideas on how to fix this? Also, please be patient, I have never done a DVD before. Thanks

Cheers,
Ken

[AlanHK]

(I had 4 .VOB files that I combined with command prompt command vob1.vob+vob2.vob etc.). The result is called Adelaide.VOB. When I drag it onto my project, it says:
Inconsistent Timecodes! SCR=1.48sec, GOP = 8241.60 sec.

As the error says, inconsistent timecodes. Pasting together VOBs is the cause. That's a pretty brutal way to join video.

There are probably many ways to repair the timecodes. One way that should work is to demux your VOB to video and audio. Then use these as your inputs to GfD. GfD will remux and make time codes in the process.

[mats.hogberg]

4 .VOB files that I combined with command prompt command vob1.vob+vob2.vob etc

That's your problem. Use vobmerge instead, or use vob2mpg to extract + merge the mpg out of the vobs.

/Mats

[jedinix]

(I had 4 .VOB files that I combined with command prompt command vob1.vob+vob2.vob etc.). The result is called Adelaide.VOB. When I drag it onto my project, it says:
Inconsistent Timecodes! SCR=1.48sec, GOP = 8241.60 sec.

As the error says, inconsistent timecodes. Pasting together VOBs is the cause. That's a pretty brutal way to join video.

There are probably many ways to repair the timecodes. One way that should work is to demux your VOB to video and audio. Then use these as your inputs to GfD. GfD will remux and make time codes in the process.

What do you recommend I demux it with?

[Abond]

https://www.videohelp.com/tools/DGMPGDec
Read carefully the manual.

[jedinix]

Hey Everyone,

Thanks for all of your prompt replies but I used vob2mpg like mats.hogberg suggested and it worked like a charm! Thanks for all your suggestions.

Kenny