Scenarist importing .mpa: crc off/dvd specification error

[Chetwood]

Since Encore 1.0 seems more to be of a public beta than anything else I'm now trying Scenarist 2.7 to author my self-recorded files to DVD. The audio stream I ripped from my mpeg are imported flawlessly by DVDLab, Maestro and Encore but not in Scenarist. I'm getting this message:

Error DVD Specification Error
Error CRC Off Error

According to the Scenarist user guide it can handle .mpa files of 48 khz and 384 kbit/s in PAL projects so what gives?

[Bish0p]

I had same problem,
The captured audio (.mpa) would not import and I would get the same error.
I'm sure you've done this, but play the audio and check to see if it plays properly
The problem we had was that our capture card wasn't encoding the audio stream correctly (churning out garbled rubbish when played)
So i'm guessing that something has gone wrong with the encoding
Just an idea

[Chetwood]

Originally posted by Bish0p
I'm sure you've done this, but play the audio and check to see if it plays properly

I am sure the audio file is ok since I used it flawlessly in DVDlab, Maestro and Encore. As well, I had converted it to wav with DBPoweramp and used the whole file to make subtitles from it in Substation Alpha so I can even tell that the whole file is complete and has no garbage in it.

I'm freaking out.

This is what I have:


video: cbr 8000 kbit/s encoded from TV on 720x576
audio: 384 kb/s 48 khz encoded from TV

both merged from several files of the same specs with womble's mpeg2vcr.

This is what I want:

Make a 45 min DVD with 1 audio stream and 1 subtitle stream.

This is what I tried:


DVDlab: no subtitles yet

DVD Maestro: reads only the first minute of the video file, apparently has problems at those spots the file has been merged at (I'm lacking the correct term here. What do you call the place where frames had to be re-encoded to make for a new file?)

Scenarist: problems importing audio

Encore: stops during compile due to an mpg file error. Weird, cause the scan during import ran flawlessly. Still the complete video is there but I can watch only a few minutes of it then the software player locks up


Is there any tool around that can check an mpeg2 file for specs compliancy? Or something that can rewrite frame headers or stuff?
I think that merging several samples of different length (albeit same specs like fps and bitrate) causes problems, however, the mpegs playback fine in all media players passing those scenes flawlessly that seem to cause trouble when used as demuxed streams in the authoring applications.

This weirds me out since mpeg2vcr seems to be the best tool for this. I'd tried Tmpgenc before and I could never cut & merge that accurately, the resulting movie always had the cuts at different scenes than the preview. Any suggestions?