Playback problems for PAL authored with Scenarist

[ChickenMan]

I'm using Scenarist 2.7 with DVD2SVCD 1.2.1b3 and CCE 2.50 to produce a set of VOB files from a PAL DVD to fit a DVDR. It encodes and authors with no apparent problems.

The bug found in DVD2SVCD that created an NTSC header in the IFO files when the original was infact PAL seamed to have been resolved (thread http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60463 ) with the issue of ver 1.2.1 build 2b and the new subsequent 1.2.1. b3, thanks DVD2SVCD. However, on some DVD Players they still refuse to play. My mate has one such player ( a Conia model ???) yet they play flawlessly on my Hiteker(Apex) AD600.

Further checking with IFOEdit both the VIDEO_TS.IFO and VTS_01_0.IFO files from a recent encode/author with ver 1.2.1 b3 with Scenarist, I find it reads:

VMG Overview:

Menu attributes:
Video: MPEG-1 720x480 (NTSC) (NTSC 525/60) (4:3) (pan-scan & letterboxed)

Title Set (Movie) attributes:
Video: MPEG-2 720x576 (PAL) (PAL 625/50) (16:9) (letterboxed)

Note the Menu Video attributes (even though there is no Menu, its Movie only here) is set to an MPEG-1 and still NTSC. If I then edit this with IFOEdit to MPEG-2 and PAL and burn, it then plays perfectly in my mates player. If I author the *.m2v and *.ac3 files manually in Maestro ( as I have always done in the past), the Menu part is corectly set to MPEG-2 and PAL in both IFO files

Is anyone else finding this problem or it it just me?

Cheers,
CM

[dvd2svcd]

Damn, I had seen that, but I figured that since no menus were used that that wouldn't be any problem. But it seems that it is. Thanks, and btw very good bug report. :)

Edit: I just noticed that there's NTSC in the video_ts.ifo too. Better make a fix for this.

[dvd2svcd]

Hmm, this seems to be a bit more difficult than I assumed at first. It seems that if I make a PAL DVD manually in Scenarist (without any menus) scenarist defaults the two above mentioned places to NTSC (weird and I think it's a bug in Scenarist). A possible solution is perhaps to add some kind of menu. I'll look into this.

[ChickenMan]

I had a funny feeling it was a Scenarist problem. I get lost trying to use Scenarist manually so was unable to check that part. I hope you can sort it out & thanks d2s.

[dvd2svcd]

Maybe I should just edit the two ifo files in dvd2svcd.

[DDogg]

Maybe I should just edit the two ifo files in dvd2svcd. Developing that capability in d2s might pay off later for other similar problems/ future features ?