Import a DVD in another DVD-Lab project

[Metallo]

Hi,

I have a simple DVD lab project with one movie and a Menu.

A friend, brought me a DVD he made (I guess using an Apple application) with photos related to the same event I have on my DVD.
The photos are encoded as a video.
I took his DVD, imported the 3 VTS in the asset, joined the VOB files and demultiplex into separate elements.
I added a new VTS (different TV aspect ratio between his pictures and my movie) to my DVD and placed there the 3 movies of my friend's dvd.
Obviously, I generated a new VMG Menu.

Everything is working but: the duration among the pictures is reduced to 2 sec. (actually, I think it is only the trasiction effect but the duration time is gone) while the original DVD is 5 sec.

Have no idea why this occurs, but it is during the demux process.

The original .vob file is progressive so I ran everything into ReStream and made it interlaced, I did reset the GOP timecode too.

I tried different applications to demux, VOBEdit, ReJig, DVD-Lab internal demux application, but you can clearly see the problem by looking at the time after demux:

Video 1: 3'21"
Video 2: 3'21"
Video 3: 2'18"

Audio 1: 8'11"
Audio 2: 8'11"
Audio 3: 5'40"

Basically, the audio is correct, while the video is shorter which confirms the duration time among the pictures has gone..

My friend's DVD works perfectly on my DVD Player so there are no errors on the DVD itself.

Question is: Why does the duration time disappears after the demux process?

I hope you can help to solve the dilemma :thanks:

Alex

[Metallo]

Can anybody help?

:thanks:

[Darksoul71]

Hi Metallo,

Question is: Why does the duration time disappears after the demux process?
I´m afraid that I can not answer this one but if I was in your place I would do the following:
1) Simply copy the VOBs of the DVD to HDD. Do not touch / alter them in any way.

2) Grab TMPEGEnc DVDAuthor
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tda3.html

Namely because it supports the following input format:
-> DVD-Video (VIDEO_TS, .IFO, .VOB)

3) Master a new DVD with three menu entries for the VOBs of your friend (one entry for all
VOB files of one video) and the required amout of menu entries for your fotos / videos.

4) Generate & burn the DVD

Then you should be fine to watch it in your SAP.

The problems (I suspect here) might be caused by processing the streams. Esp. software for
generating slideshows based on fotos works very different from vendor to vendor. By touching
the generated vobs by any mean (demuxing, patching) you can easily break the interval structure
of the VOB.

Hope this helps somehow,
D$

[Metallo]

Hi Darksoul,

Well, I don't need TMPEGE DVD Author, DVD-Lab supports VOB files too, the issue is that the VOB files are progressive and the only way I know to make them interlaced is through ReStream...but it only supports elementary streams which lead me to the original problem.

Is there a tool that allows me to change the picture coding from progressive to interlaced directly into a VOB?

Cheers
Alex

[Darksoul71]

Why would you want to change the VOB from progressive to interlaced ?
Your SAP can deal with a large variety of formats (16:9 / 4:3 / progressive / interlaced) as
long as you separate them in different VOBs.

Or did I miss something ?

:confused:

[Metallo]

Why would you want to change the VOB from progressive to interlaced ?
Your SAP can deal with a large variety of formats (16:9 / 4:3 / progressive / interlaced) as
long as you separate them in different VOBs.

Or did I miss something ?

:confused:

You are right, I was convinced that being my TV set not progressive it could be a problem, but I used the original .vob files and everything runs smoothly now :)

Thank you!
Alex

[Darksoul71]

Hey Alex,

no problem ! You are welcome !

Best regards,
Holger