Buffer overflow error #0003 and DVDShrink

[CoNS]

First of all, jdobbs, thanks for this amazing tool. I've been using it on 5-10 discs with great results.

But now I suddenly got a "Buffer overflow error #0003", and thus I'm stuck with the disc I'm currently working on. I've been trying again with different settings, but same result. I've also looked through the new help files by Rockas and the relevant threads here at the Doom9 forum in this section, but I can't find any explanation of the error, even thorugh I can see similar error messages described here.

Can anyone help?

I use CCE 2.67 Trial with eclCCE. I've tried using both DVD-RB 0.66aPR and 0.64aPR, but I get the error in both cases in the rebuild phase (I use the one click mode). My settings in the program should be ok - it has worked on the other 5-10 discs I've tried and I haven't installed any add-ons etc. In this particular case all subtitle and audio streams are kept with DVD-RB.

What perhaps makes this case a bit special, is that the sources which I'm trying to process is made using DVDShrink's DVD author function (with no compression). The source (made by DVD Shrink) has a main VTS (the movie) and then 6-7 following VTS (each containing a deleted scenes etc.). It plays fine in my software DVD player and was made with the latest version of DVDShrink without any error reports.

The original source used with DVDshrink is a retail PAL DVD9 movie. It also plays fine in software players. I don't know which program was used to rip/decrypt it to the harddisk, as someone else did this, but it has not been edited afterwards in any way before reauthoring with DVDShrink.

I hope someone can help me? Or at least explain to me why the buffer overflow error #0003 usually occurs?

[Subwars]

under options check the "special error processing" and try the last step again well i'm presuming it's happening in the rebuild step cause it allso happened to me and checking that let it finish the process give it a try and get back to us

[Rockas]

There are thousands of posts on this forum alerting people for the danger of making pre-processing with the source files. You pre-processed your files with Shrink right?

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[CoNS]

Yes, as I wrote, I authored a new, clean DVD using DVDShrink's re-author function. So I've processed the disc, but not in the usual sense.

No butchering has been done for sure. The output from the author function in DVDShrink should make perfectly working DVDs as far as I know. But there must be a bug somewhere either in the DVDshrink re-author function or in DVD-RB, that's why I think it's relevant to report it here.

[CoNS]

Ok, here's how it all ended with my disc:

I decided to go back to the original disc and use this with DVD-RB instead of the newly authored disc by DVDShrink. And now it works fine. This time I even post-processed the disc using VobBlanker and PgcEdit to blank out some whole titlesets, single PGCs and single cells before using DVD-RB and it still worked fine.

So my conclusion is that there is a problem when using DVD-RB to compress a DVD which have been authored using DVDShrink's DVD author function. Whether the bug is related to DVDShrink or DVD-RB I don't know. :confused:

It's a bit of shame, because the DVDShrink DVD author function is really nice when you want to create a disc with a number of titles to play after each other, but without keeping the menu and unwanted extra material etc. As stated in my first post, what I was trying to do, was to create such a disc without doing any compressing in DVDShrink and then using DVD-RB (and CCE) to do some quality compressing afterwards...

About the pre-processing/post-processing issue: I know that jdobbs highly recommends that any processing of the disc should be done after using DVD-RB and not before. Other than the above case with DVDShrink, it is my experience that it's safe to blank out unwanted material using PgcEdit and VobBlanker before using DVD-RB. In other words, these programs seem to output the discs correctly and not "butcher" the discs in any way. Also, I've been using MenuEdit to remove buttons after blanking, but before DVD-RB, without any problems.

If you follow the official recommendation and do the blanking after and not before using DVD-RB on a disc, it makes the whole deal a lot more complicated. You'd then have to follow the procedure described by Sir Didymus and pg5555 in the Tips and Tricks page 1 in the DVD-RB help files by Rockas, where you count in the size of the extra material, and then edit the files made by DVD-RB using RBOpt accordingly.

So if it really is a problem doing pre-processing with programs like VobBlanker and PgcEdit before using DVD-RB, I second the suggestion made by another user the other day: Implement a blanking feature in DVD-RB itself... :)

[Rockas]

I don't know if it has something about it, only jdobbs can answer this, can it have something about the Region sets?
Almost everyone doesn't set any region on DVD Shrink... I would like to know that if you set a specific region will it work?

As I said before... It's just a thought... only jdobbs can be more specific about it...

I never done this before but I may need to on a near future... will DVD Rebuilder work with a source authored with DVD Lab Pro or Scenarist or even TmpgEnc DVD Author (these are just examples)?
I thought about this before, about the preprocessing with Shrink, cause sometimes it works, sometimes not.

So the question is: is DVD Rebuilder campatible with an oversized authoring project?
Maybe I'll have the answer by the weekend :)

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