Problems with DVDLabPro

[carlmart]

I'm getting a runtime error on a DVD I'm trying to author with both DVDLabPros I have, #1.53 and #2.51, so I guess there might something on the files I'm using which is causing this.

This is certainly not my first DVDLabPro job, so it's not a setup problem.

What should I do or check to get things done?

Edit: just to make a test, I just did a simple authoring with the same video & audio files in TMPGEnc DVD Author, and things went fine. But I can't put subs and author as I like with it.

[aedipuss]

when does the error occur and can you provide any better info on what it says when it happens?

[carlmart]

The program begins to author and after the "red line" starts running, after a few minutes with "muxing in process", it stops.

For your benefit I run it again in DLP 2.51, and I got this text at the end:

*** DVD Lab Pro Verification Log ***
6 - 19 - 2011 -- 11:19:11


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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: 1


Title 01 - Type - ES or PES
Segment 1, Video File C:\Temp\prime#2.m2v
Frame Size: 720 X 576
Frame Rate 3 [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 - 23512
GOP 2, size - 84297
GOP 3, size - 200387
Segment 1, Audio File C:\Temp\AudioFile_80.ac3
Audio type: AC3_Mot, Channel: 2, Sampling: 48000, Bitrate: 192000
Segment 1, Subtitle File C:\Temp\ps.sp1



Number of Menus: 2


Menu 01 - Type - Dummy


Menu 02 - Type - Still
nMenu cell count - 1

Menu Image File C:\Temp\53713368_tmp1.bmp
Picture size - 720 x 576
Menu Audio File - None
Menu Sub-Picture File C:\Temp\53713368_tmpsub1.bmp
Picture size - 720 x 576

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* Status Messages *
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Start building Video Title Set ( VTS ) ... - 2001
Title - 1
Start building VOB streams - 2210
Muxing elementary streams is in process ... - 2220
Initializing audio packets ... - 3005
Initializing AC3 (MOT) audio packet ... - 3030
Muxing is in process ... - 2300

>

Processing stopped after less than five minutes. It doesn't say why it did.

[guns1inger]

Usually it is a problem with the audio encoding that causes this type of error in DLP. Run your audio through AC3fix and try again.

[carlmart]

Unfortunately it wouldn't be that easy.

You pointed out an area that I never thought would have been the problem, and it does seem to be.

To start with I can't make AC3fix to run, even using its GUI version. It simply doesn't run the fix.

Then I run it with Avisynth, using nicac3, re-converting it to same size. Then loaded that file in DLP. Same result: stops in less than 5 minutes.

Then I converted the AC3 file to wav with PX3Convert. Then tried to load the resultant wav file in SoundForge, but it says there was an error opening the file.

Then I opened the original mpg file, which I had captured with TMPGEnc, in SoundForge. This time the error was when trying to save the wav file, saying the size being rendered exceeded the maximum size allowed by this format type.

There definitely seems to be an audio file problem, but I ran out of options. What else can I try?

[El Heggunte]

Try modifying the problematic .dal project.

In DVD-lab, the authoring module and the compiling module
not always speak the same language.

[tinker]

I usually use BeSweet with BeLight GUI to convert to AC3 or back to WAV for modifications. The converted file works fine with DVD-Lab.

[carlmart]

OK. I did as I was advised: re-converted the AC3 file with Belight and re-authored the DVD.

I'm still getting a " Runtime Error - Abnormal Program Termination" message after about 5 minute muxing.

What else can I do? Is there some kind of file test to get mine through to see what might be the problem?

As it is I am in the dark.

The problem seems to be in the ac3 audio file, because I converted to wav both with PX3 and with Belight, and Soundforge does not recognize the file.

Also deleted the DLP 1.53 directory and installed DLP 2.50 from zero. Re-made all the authoring again, and I get the same error.

[El Heggunte]

What else can I do?

As I had said

Try modifying the problematic .dal project.

OR...

use a different authoring application.

[carlmart]

Modify it how? I want it this way, not a different one. I re-did all the steps all over again.

Is there anything I can do with the AC3 file?

Which other authoring application is as flexible as DLP?

[carlmart]

Well, just to give closure to this problem, let me tell what I did.

To start with I hd to confirm that I could really author the DVD on other programs, and if the problem was really in DLP.

As it turned out it wasn't, the problem was in the video file. Furthermore, it was in the original demuxed video file. Authoring also failed when I tried to use the original files, so I knew the problem was somewhere else.

Apparently the demuxed video file needed re-structuring the GOP timecode, and only then proceed to process it with Avisynth.

This what I did this time, taking another 11-hours of HCenc processing. And things worked out alright.

Normal processing with DLP and all that jazz.

So, from now on I will start things by writing the GOP TC again. This had not happened ever in the past, that's why I didn't do it.