Authoring after joing clips with VOBEdit

[lam_das]

Hi,

I recently converted 2 movies (5 VCDs)
into a DVD with 50 odd chapters by converting each VCD disc
into a DVD using TMPGEnc and IFOEdit "Authoring"
feature. Then I used VOBEdit to join these into one
big movie with 50 odd chapters and create IFOs with IFOEdit.
Second movie starts perfectly at chapter 23.

Everything works fine except that I can't rewind/forward
chapters beyond 11 (1st VCD ends there). I can rewind/forward at
8x before chapter 11. When I do forward , let's say inside chapter 12, it jumps to the same offset in 1st VCD disc but with current chapter # shown (i.e. it keeps showing chapter 12 when its playing chapter 1).

What's wrong? I did do the "Get VTS sectors" before I burned the image with imgtools for the final movie.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[destemido]

can you join them before you author??? it could be the program assuming you have more than 1 chapter one, in this case 5. try to join all movies first and them make the chapter distribution.

You could also create diferent titles for them. that way your problem wouldn't happen. but then you would probably need a real authoring program to create a menu and all that.

[lam_das]

destemido, you mean join all m1v files into one? how do I do that? Again, how would I know where my second movie starts?

[destemido]

on a second thought...
maybe it's not that simple... can you check the starting sector for chapter 12??? if it's the same as chapter 1 ... then you'll know why it doesn't work.

[lam_das]

but if the start sector wasn't correct, I won't be able to jump to ch 12 by using "goto" on my DVD remote. It does that fine. Its something to do with navigational links (for 4/6/8x speed fwd/bwd) that the program is supposed to find in the VOB. Somehow the next address that decoder comes up with is not correctly found in the VOB and it jumps back to same offset in ch 1 by default.

Did I mention that 2x fwd works fine on standalone DVD player but not on computer? but 2x bwd doesn't work anywhere. 4/6/8x don't.

[lam_das]

after combining the clips TMPGenc can't convert the audio to 48kHz because temp WAV file it creates exceeds 4GB size. Any clues for a workaround??

[destemido]

i think i know a way...
can you get the chapter list for each movie??
if so you can create a "manual" celltimes.txt to use in ifoedit containing all the four movies celltimes.txt. the first chapters belong to movie 1, then chapter 12 (think that's your 2nd movie first chapter) will start at the end of chapter 11.
you do that until you have the celltimes.txt with the four movies.
then you join all your .m2v files, and sound files, and author in ifoedit...
the only downside is that the four movies will "form" a single title... so if you want to jump to, let's say... movie 4 you have to go through all the chapters.

[Antonio S.]

@lam_das:

Just delete your "VTS_01_0.IFO" and create a new one using "CREATE IFOs" option in Ifoedit...

Antonio S.

[lam_das]

Antonio,

but I freshly created "VTS_01_0.IFO" for joined VOB files from various movies using the "create IFOs" from IFOEdit. you mean I should delete it and create it again. why?

if you have any clue to how you can encode an mp2 44.1 kHz file, whose WAV equivalent exceeds 4GB in size(so ssrc is ruled out because it tries to first convert the audio in WAV), into an mp2 48kHz file, that will be great.

[destemido]

i think you can convert it into an ac-3 file!!
search for a proggy called besweet.. it was created by DSPguru who happens to be a mod here...
at least it can convert to mp3 in one step (meaning vob -> mp3)
not sure if it can convert an mp2 into an ac-3, but DL the proggy...
it won't hurt.

[DSPguru]

Originally posted by destemido
not sure if it can convert an mp2 into an ac-3it can ;)
it will also normalize and change sample-rate on the fly, if being asked-for politely :o

[lam_das]

BeSweet is great! Thanks destemido, DSPGuru, Antonio to for replying to my post!!

Now I will try the full combined movie.