Sync problems with Maestro

[hoops10]

I followed Doom9's guide on Maestro because I have a mulitple PGC movie (Harry Potter) and I wanted to keep the menus. SO I followed the Maestro guide but when I play the movie, the audio and video are out of sync. Why is this? Is there a fix for this? Thanks.

BTW, I didn't burn the .lay file (Was I supposed to?) and I burned with Nero 5.5.8.0 (<-- the good one).

[jeff_jordan]

Is your tile set in sync when you use the navigation-simulator within Maestro ?
If not, then we can assume that your source material (the elementary streams) is asynchronous.
Maybe you'r source has been an *.mpg file, multiplexed with an audio or video delay ?

By the way: Even DVDs burned with Nero 5.5.8.0 won't play properly at some standalones. Why don't you burn directly out of maestro ?

[hoops10]

My source material are vobs ripped from the DVD, so they are in perfect sync. I am unable to use the navigator-simulator (it doesn't work) because I don't have a MAestro compatible software dvd player or a hardware card (although I have a Realmagic Hollywood Plus card in my system). I get a 'Decoder Connection not established' error. How do I get it so that the navigator-simulator works?

Also, when I was in the menus, none of the selection arrows on the remote work either. I did follow Doom9's guide where he says "I basically checked everything but the Root Menu call and for the main menu I deactivated everything." This could be the reason for that problem. Although that wouldn't make much sense to deactivate the arrows on the remote so that they didn't work. You would be unable to make any selections (i.e. chapters). Please help. Thanks.

I will try burning directly out of Maestro next, after I fix the above mentioned problems.

BTW, I checked the vobs in WinDVD and DVD Station (<--- the software for my Hollywood + card) and they both are out of sync. The orginial AC3 track (demuxed with dvd2avi 1.76) shows a delay in ms, but I was told that when authoring, that delay doesn't matter.

[jeff_jordan]

How do I get it so that the navigator-simulator works?Ever tried to install the RAVISENT Cinemaster 2000 engine ?
This worked for me. And I've choosen "Ravisent Hardware decoder" during the installation process ;), even so Cinemaster 2000 is only a software decoder :D.

2nd: To make the selection arrows work, you need to press "Auto Assign" during the menu authoring process (at least once). This could be found in the "Buttons" tab.

Btw, if you own an Pioneer A03, disable the DMA transfer prior to burn directly with Maestro. This should prevent you from generating some coasters.

If the *.VOBs in the compiled video_ts folder are already out of sync (while playing with WinDVD), then the elementary streams that you used for authoring are asynchronous too.
Maybe you should try to fix the delay given for the AC3 file (the milliseconds given in the filename) using the "AC3 Delay Corrector", written by Daniel Ache.

[hoops10]

@jeff_jordan

Where can I get the RAVISENT Cinemaster 2000 engine? What is it, like drivers or something.

You said, "If the *.VOBs in the compiled video_ts folder are already out of sync (while playing with WinDVD), then the elementary streams that you used for authoring are asynchronous too."

How can this be if I used the vobs ripped from the original DVD and then used dvd2avi -> avisynth -> CCE to encode them?

[jeff_jordan]

Ravisent Cinemaster 2000 is:

a) a software driver for mpeg2 & ac3 playback
b) a dvd-player (u don't need this part)

Where to get the engine... phew, you can buy it from ravisent e.g. sigma designs...

When you've ripped the ac3 stream, you should get an *.ac3 file with an initial delay in the filename.
Depending on the tool you used for ripping, you may need to correct this delay with the tool I mentioned above.

Usually those delays are only a few ms... maybe one hundred. There you often won't notice asynchronity. But this delay might be significantly greater (as far as I can remember up to 1000ms is valid), which leads to those worse results.

The delay happens, when someone has set an initial delay during the authoring process of the source DVD. This might be nescessary to get the streams in sync.

[SATANIC1]

MATROX dvd player also comes with Cinemaster 2000.