Dvd-lab Read Data Size

[Burig]

I posted a thread yesterday that required some help, and thankfully got it fairly fast, and am very grateful, however have stumbled upon another problem:
I clicked compile the DVD, and it ran for a few minutes varifying certain things and building video title sets, etc.
After awhile though it began muxing and said
"[ERR] The read data size is over the buffer limit"

I did a quick google search, but came up with very little (even less that was in English), I wasn't able to see if it was either hard-drive space (which I know I had enough of) or RAM (which I closed as many programs as I could). I also went project > free up memory, but still no help.

Does anyone know what the fix to this is?
If it is about RAM, I've got about 4gbs - I would assume that is enough, but have no idea.

[aedipuss]

check your mpeg-2's bitrates. the total video + audio bitrate may be over what is allowed in the dvd spec. another other possibility is the gop length is too long.

[Burig]

They're MPEG-1 I believe.
The average bitrates do vary (I tried to set it with winff, but winff didn't like me doing that, and had some problem), so rather than typing everything out, a screenshot is:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/4/screenshotula.png/

I didn't set any bitrate on winff, if that made any difference.

I have no idea about the gop length, I know they're open though, but dvd-lab said that shouldn't be a problem?

[aedipuss]

352 x 240 pixels MPEG1? at 1150kbps? that is all that's acceptable for dvd if it's mpeg-1. i'd redo it to dvd compliant mpeg-2 as mpeg-1 quality sucks.

[Burig]

Woo, looks like another night for the computer staying up all night encoding stuff! Fun!
Hmm, looking at winff, I can't see any option to change between mpeg-1 and mpeg-2.

You wouldn't know of any free (or 30-day free trial) programs that do?
Or know how to get it to do so on winff. Unless it's just chosing high quality rather than Pal DVD widescreen.

[aedipuss]

your screenshot shows the videos as 720x576. you made mpeg-1 at that size? what you are looking for is dvd spec compliant mpeg-2.

look into avstodvd it may be easier(and still free).

[Burig]

Guess that shows how new I am to this. :P
Does that program just turn the files I've got now into something that I can use with DVDlab-pro?

[aedipuss]

well it probably has settings to do it that way, but it is able to create the mpeg-2's, author them and then burn them to dvd.

[Burig]

Awesome! I've finally got it to work the way I want, more or less.
Thanks! A lot!

One last thing - I've got a soundtrack on the main menu, I was wondering if there was a way to have the soundtrack continue without stopping or restarting throughout menu navigation (so the track would start on the root menu, and then continue to play even if you selected the chapter menu for example)?

If not, it's no big deal, would be a nice addition is all.

[Baldrick]

One last thing - I've got a soundtrack on the main menu, I was wondering if there was a way to have the soundtrack continue without stopping or restarting throughout menu navigation (so the track would start on the root menu, and then continue to play even if you selected the chapter menu for example)

It's not possible.

[Burig]

Ah well, thank you guys anyway!
You guys helped a lot and saved me a lot of grief!

[Burig]

After getting the first one done (as I've got a number of clips to put onto a DVD, and unfortunatly they don't all fit onto one), and getting it burned, I moved onto the second set, and putting them into the DVD-lab it said the same thing as it had done before (with the first set that is - something about the fps and audio, both of which it fixed; one with a pulldown thing).

Putting them on and compiling though, its said the read data size is over the limit.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/522/screenshotyo.png/

The program I used to convert them to mpeg2 was Xilsoft AVItoDVD 6, if it makes any difference. n_n;

[aedipuss]

looks like you have messed up the mpeg-2's. pal video has to be 720x576 25fps. nstc video has to b 720x480 29.97(or 23.976 w/pulldown).

and you can't mix the 2 of them onto a single dvd.

[Burig]

Alright. I think this should be right, but before I spend a few hours converting them, could you give it a quick look over?
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/840/screenshotbpi.png/

That's the program I'm using to convert, and so far seems to have worked pretty well - for the ones that have worked with dvd-lab that is.

[aedipuss]

the only problem i see is that dvd audio has to be 48khz, it's shown as 44.1khz in the output listing.