Multiple segments for a single cell

[fritzdis]

For some of my DVD-RB projects, multiple AVS files are created for the same cell (e.g. V04001800008002.AVS, V04001900008002.AVS, and V04002000008002.AVS). These are not 1-frame cells. This does not happen on nearly the same scale as the hundreds/thousands of segments bug found earlier, but it could still have the effect of negating some of the advantages of multipass VBR encoding. So far, this has occurred only on episodic DVDs (X-Files to be exact), but I haven't done many others, so I can't say whether it happens on other kinds of DVDs.

Does anybody have an idea about what could be going wrong? Is there anything I could have set up incorrectly that would cause this kind of problem?

Edit: I'm using 0.57a, by the way.

[TheSeeker]

I dont even pretend to know exactly how DVDRB works but I have found the same thing happening with Episodic dvd's. Most recently Taken Miniseries. But the resulting quality was superb so I just figured it knew what it was doing. Are u seeing any issues or artifacts or anything nasty like that in your finished product? If no.... What seems to be the problem?

[fritzdis]

Well, because of the overall low bitrate and somewhat poor source quality, there are noticable artifacts in the finished product. What improvement might be gained if there were not multiple segments for single cells is unclear. But whether this error has a noticable negative effect on these particular DVDs is not really the point. In a different context, jdobbs made it clear that breaking down video into too many segments would "definitely nullify the advantages of VBR and result in extremely poor video quality". What I'm experiencing with these particular DVDs may not be too many segments, but this error might at some point result in that. I would not say this is a high priority issue (I'd much rather see the audio dropout problem solved), but it should probably be addressed at some point if it is indeed an error instead of a feature.