DVDLab and background music in menus problem

[Jolard]

I am having trouble with DVDlab and background music on menus.

I am using dvdlab 1.2.2 (latest)

I am creating menus, both with still pictures and with motion menus. They work perfectly, until I add music to the menus. The menus work perfectly on my PC, and on my cheapo Taiwanese DVD player. However on my Toshiba 3109, the music will play for a couple of seconds, then the menu will freeze up.

It does that if I use either mp3 or ac3. I have the music settings to default (inf) so it is supposed to set the timeout to the length of the audio.

Since it is working on one DVD player and not the other, I am inclined to think it maybe poor coding. The first thing I would think of is media, but I have tried different media and it does the same no matter what.

Also, audio works perfectly on movies, just not the menus.

Audio files are the correct bitrate, etc, and they work fine if attached to movies, just not on the menus.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a workaround, and is this a known bug? Thanks for any help!

[maa]

Are you sure there are no red icons in the compile dialog ?

Dvd Lab has problems with AC3 - you can run it through AC3Fix and the it should work.

[bb]

There were know problems with 192 kbps AC3. I use 224 kbps, and I never had any problems. By the way: you can't use MP3 in DVDs, you were probably talking about MP2.

There are several known bugs in 1.2.2. Do you run into the same problems if you compile your project using 1.2 (the release version)?

bb

[Jolard]

can't use MP3 in DVDs, you were probably talking about MP2.
Yes, you are right, it was MP2

Are you sure there are no red icons in the compile dialog ?

Yes, it compiles fine.

There are several known bugs in 1.2.2. Do you run into the same problems if you compile your project using 1.2 (the release version)?

I will have to unistall and reinstall with 1.2, so i will give that a try.

There were know problems with 192 kbps AC3. I use 224 kbps, and I never had any problems

Thanks, I will try that also.

Appreciate both of your help, this is really frustrating, since I love DVDlab, and want it to be my primary authoring app.

[Jolard]

First thing first, I checked my bitrate for my ac3 encoding, and I am encoding at 256 kbps. Should I scale down to 224?

[bb]

There were some known problems with exactly this bitrate (256 kbps). It is often used by DVD recorders. I don't remember exactly if they have been solved completely, but you can try with the "relaxed" muxer. I would avoid re-encoding at a lower bitrate, because this way you'll lose quality. Make sure you demux to elementary files before adding the files to DVDlab (to avoid demuxing problems, which have been reported as well).

bb