ReelDVD chapters restart audio

[KnightsWhoSayNi]

Hi, great forum

I have created a project within ReelDVD and exported it to Scenarist.

The issue I face was created by ReelDVD I believe (Or my misuse thereof). I have a single Video stream and 2 audio streams. If I play the movie from the beginning it plays fine. If I skip to the next chapter, the video jumps to the correct point, but the audio starts playing from 00:00:00

The chapters were created in ReelDVD so Scenarist is just recreating the original problem.

Here is a sample of the scenarist script for a chapter entry:

Name=cd 2-t-scn_2
Color Palette=DefaultPaletteAngle
Type=Seamless
Scene Time=00:07:52;08
Story Scenes=List


Angle Scenes=List
{
}
UOP=
{
UOP3 Stop()=Permitted
UOP4 GoUp()=Permitted
UOP5 Time_Search(), PTT_Search()=Permitted
UOP6 PrevPG_Search(), TopPG_Search()=Permitted
UOP7 NextPG_Search()=Permitted
UOP8 Forward_Scan()=Permitted
UOP9 Backward_Search()=Permitted
UOP10 Menu_Call(Title)=Permitted
UOP11 Menu_Call(Root)=Permitted
UOP12 Menu_Call(Sub-picture)=Permitted
UOP13 Menu_Call(Audio)=Permitted
UOP14 Menu_Call(Angle)=Permitted
UOP15 Menu_Call(PTT)=Permitted
UOP16 Resume()=Permitted
UOP18 Still_Off()=Permitted
UOP19 Pause_On()=Permitted
UOP20 Audio_Sream_Change()=Permitted
UOP21 Sub-picture_Sream_Change()=Permitted
UOP22 Angle_Change()=Permitted
UOP23 Karaoke_Audio()=Permitted
UOP24 Video_Presentation()=Permitted

Tried creating a new project from scratch, with exectly the same issue.


Hope someone can shed some light on this for me, cheers.

[Lord of the Discs]

Just a thought, do you set your chapter points AFTER you put the
audio streams in the track, or before ? (maybe that´s the problem).

LotD

[Eyes`Only]

Ni! Ni! NII!

[KnightsWhoSayNi]

Thanks for the suggestion Lord of the disks, I have figured out what the actual issue is here albeit a humbliing experience to share the reason. After days of hunting for the answer here and man many trials at starting with a new scenario and different data files, it turns out that it is only when previewing that the sync gets sooo bad. When I actually thought, to hell with it and just rendered the sucker, it played back fine. All audio streams were in perfect sync. Now this seems very wrong to me but, It only seems to hapapen on media that originated from DivX:-) Idont remember if this has always happened or not.

Bring us......................A SHRUBBERY!!!:sly:

[Eyes`Only]

Scenarist preview is terrible for sync checking. I remember one time I messed with a movie for a couple days and could not figure out why the subtitles didn't sync up. Ended up being the same problem, the previewer. And this was DVD->DVDR.

[Lord of the Discs]

Meanwhile, I allways check my "masterpieces" with PowerDVD
before I burn them (it saves time, money and nerves).

LotD

[Eyes`Only]

I have a 4 part procedure:

1) Mount .ISO with favorite image mounting tool.
2) Open one or two .IFOs from the mounted drive with IFOEdit (test for blank .IFOs)
3) Play DVD with WinDVD (PowerDVD also works but irks me because if the directory you choose to play is writeable, PowerDVD will leave a .PLS file in it!)
4) Test Subtitles, Chapter selection, and one or two extras in the player, checking for sync.

If it passes all four of these tests, I know I'm almost 100% guaranteed a perfect dvdr.

[KnightsWhoSayNi]

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

I am now off in search of performance gains for scenarist preview :sly:

[auenf]

i prefer to use Sonic Cineplayer due to its ability to emulate playback on a 4:3 PS tv, 4:3 LB tv, or 16:9 wide tv, which easily brings up menu aspect errors that you would usually only pick up after burning.

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