DVDLAB ... audio 83>>>80 ... fixed ... chapters need fixing

[Mach10]

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Simplicity my friend maa, simplicity is the key. Nature is beautiful cause it is so simple

I would propose the following approach to the same problem.
Open the ifo, go to PGCITI, scroll a bit down to reach the audio part and change the 32768 in audio 1 to 33536.

This will instruct the player to use the 4th stream (83) instead of the 1st (80) when it comes to playback the 1st.

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As mentioned in the "change audio 0x83 to 0x80" ... oddyseus helped me and his "fix" worked.

But the chapters in DVDLab ... are messed up. I'm joining the vobs with DVDLAB 1.15 and authoring/compileing with DVDLab 1.2.2

If I load the movie Die Another Day into DVDLAB and do the elementary streams choice ... time is displayed correctly [2hr15min].

But when I use the joined vobs option ... the time displayed ... it is not even correct.

"Using the joined vobs option" ... when I use the auto chapter feature and play the dvd ... some of the chapters dont respond or jump back to the menu.

I notice it has a feature for inserting/using a chapter index file and at same time typing in the correct time length of the movie.

Can this file with the correct chapter locations be the file "idx" that SmartRipper can create.

Having chapters is not that big a deal but ... would be nice.

Sincerely ... Mach10

[maa]

You could have used my suggestion for the audio too - it does have its uses.

Why do you want to take your film apart with DVDlab ?

I would make a menue for it - but rewriting the VOBs and IFOs for the main film is surely not neccessary if the film works already and you're not re-compressing or transcoding. (I assume you've already done that bit)

Maybe I'm missing something (again?).

maa

[Mach10]

Mach10 is a newbie ... to DVD authoring.

This whole "007 Die Another Day" project started because my friend's wife is from Mexico and she hasn't learned English so well ... and so I started the adventure of trying to make one DVD with the movie and the Maddona videos all on one DVD. Disk 2 has the Maddona music videos.

Espanol audio is AC3 2 CH ... English audio is AC3 6ch and DTS Audio.

So my problem was getting English subtitles and Spanish audio.

The Maddona audio is AC3 2CH. I can't mix and match the AC3 2CH with the AC3 6CH.

DVDLAB says the ability to add multiple audio channels will happen if this program catches on and include it in a "Pro" version.

When I break down to elementary streams I lose the subtitles. If I use TMPGEnc DVD Author ... I lose my subtitles ... so I use DVDLAB.

I just woke up 30 minutes ago ... I've got a headache. SmartRipper has created an idx file ... I will try putting that into DVDLAB to help it keep track of the chapters ... hopefully this will work.

Sincerely ... Mach10

[maa]

Well it certainly can be done without DVDlab by using IFOEDIT and Shrink (don't need to recompress if you don't want that - just use it as an excellent chopper)

In shrink use re-author mode and capture your main film to a new directory.
Then - still in shrink - capture the part with madona to a new directory.
Now you have two seperate films that need putting together.

There are two ways I would do this.
1. Read my suggestions on making a menue for two or more films
A Simple Meue - easy ! (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56225)
Could be made with DVDlab...

2. No menue - just rename the madona part to
VTS_02_0.ifo
VTS_02_1.vob
and edit the video_ts.ifo to make it play after the film.

I can help you do this but read 1. first to get some idea of IFOEDIT
(I've made ntsc / pal dvds that play perfectly this way on modern stand alone players)

maa