Getting Half Screen (& green stuff) after Maestro authoring...

[wassabi]

I think I incorrectly posted this in the advanced authoring section - oops.

Hello, if anyone could steer me in the right direction, I'd reeeeeally appreciate it.

Received a locally recorded video (apparently it was done in half resolution 352*480 to save space). But, the quality is fine.

It was a very boring menu system with no extras so I spiced it up with Maestro. I thought all was well. Worked fine in my Sony player, a GE player, a Samsung player and all PC DVD players. However, when tested on 2 different modelled Toshiba players I get half screen with green crap at the bottom. I looked at the VTSxxxxx.IFO file and it 'flagged' the video as 720x480 so I thought reflagging it as 352x480 might help...but the problem still existed once burned again. The original DVD from the videographers doesn't seem to have this problem in the Toshiba players. It's something about the way that Maestro handles it.

Anyone come across this before??

Thnx!

[GM006]

reencode the video with cce to 720x480. It'll take up a tad more room but it'll fix ur problem

[wassabi]

Hi, thanks for the reply. I tried that before...used DVD2AVI to make a .D2V file and then created an .AVS script but CCE seemed to lock up with it. It didn't like the video file very much....

[GM006]

locked up or didnt except your avs script? cce should've encoded the video just fine if your avs file is correct. are all your settings correct in cce?

[wassabi]

I use CCE 2.5. It didn't accept the script. Gave no error message. CCE just froze for a minute and then shutdown. This is usually what happens for me when it doesn't like a script (ie, like when it can't find the D2V file, etc). But, there's no error in this case. I've tried it a few times. Other AVS files work fine. Odd......

[DIggedy]

I had this problem as well on my Toshiba player at the same res you mention... what frame rate was the file you used? Mine was a progressive 23.96fps stream with 2:3 pulldown... I suspected that this may have caused an issue at that res. I reencoded the file to 720x480 and it solved the problem.

[influenza]

Sometimes it helps opening your avs file in virtualdub and see if there's an error message there.

[Yufi]

CCE 2.5 requires there to be an audio source. At the end of your AVS, add ResampleAudio(44100) to "trick" CCE into thinking there's an audio source even though there isn't. Then try loading it with CCE.

[evb62]

Take a look at the DVDlab FAQ (http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/dvdlabfaq.html) under "What is Full D1, Half D1 etc..".

The problem could be in the menu resolution. You could try to change that before reencoding.

Cheers.

[wassabi]

Hi, just to follow up - I did the "Resample Audio" trick with CCE. I ended up using the VFAPI (Avi) method and then CCE seemed to accept the video file. However, the resultant file (when reencoded) was wayyy too big. Looks like I have to leave it as Half D1 to fit.

Thanks for the DVDlab link regarding Full and Half D1 and menus, etc. Sadly, the only thing that DOES work is the menu ;)

[influenza]

Yes but is the resolution of the menu the same as your main video (so also half D1)?

And what happens if you compile the video on it's own (so without the menu, also green stuff then)?

[wassabi]

Ohh, sorry - no, the menus are full D1 720*480. I'll try recompiling without the menu. Thanks for the tip! :)

[influenza]

I can imagine the player get's a little bit confused if you use two different types of video in one titleset (I don't know if it's allowed by specifications anyway, maybe Mpucoder can give some insight on this?).

But I'm curious how things work out if you compile it seperately or with a menu that's also half d1

[mpucoder]

In each titleset there are 2 video attributes, one for the menu, the other for the movie. The only thing they must have in common is video standard (NTSC or PAL/SECAM).