BLU RAY PROBLEM - PLEASE HELP

Stroboscope wrote on 4/12/2015, 9:46 PM
I HOPE SOMEONE CAN HELP.
I love DVD arch. But just cannot get it to work with BDs from Premiere Pr

DVDs prepare fine.
BD's simply won't. Gave up last year. Trying again. Same problem.
Premiere Pro output 1920x1080 MPG2 25MBs with PCM 29.97interlaced.

Regardless of length ( tried 2 minutes and two hours )
Gets this error:
File name: STREAM/00000.m2ts
Status: TSWrapper.dll::CTSWrapper::ProcThreadMain::Failed to read ES file. - The ES file may be shorter than the size described in the MUI file


File paths make no difference, Very shallow or deeper same error.
Please HELP !

Comments

Former user wrote on 4/12/2015, 9:50 PM
Have you rendered the video and audio out as separate streams?
Stroboscope wrote on 4/12/2015, 10:04 PM
YES
can you provide the ideal render settings that work for DVDA ?
Former user wrote on 4/12/2015, 10:22 PM
Your settings SHOULD work, but I ran into this before and ended up authoring in other software.

I did a search and found this

"I have had a problem similar to this before. It turned out that i was
trying to create a file where there were blank spots in the audio. I assumed that vegas would create silence in these areas but something happened to make the audio track slightly shorter than the video.. Try
checking to make sure the audio and video track are filled completely and the same length... Ken"

Possibly, your audio track is ending before video and the software is not padding it out to match?

Might be worth looking into.
Stroboscope wrote on 4/12/2015, 10:30 PM
the render is done by PP both files at once.
I dont understand.
Former user wrote on 4/12/2015, 10:39 PM
Sorry, I can't help either. You could use the software Mediainfo and determine if there is an actual length difference between the two files. Even if PP is rendering them at the same time, if one ends before the other on the timeline, it could possibly be the issue. I am just guessing of course.
musicvid10 wrote on 4/13/2015, 7:19 AM
Read Sony Knowledgebase article 84.
That said, there is no guarantee whatsoever that files created in another app will work in dvda.
videoITguy wrote on 4/13/2015, 8:56 AM
Absolutely not the way DVDAPro was designed - it is for workflow coming out of VegasPro NLE edits for a variety of reasons. That was the intention - howtodo is well documented - stick with that workflow.
Former user wrote on 4/13/2015, 10:33 AM
IF you didn't already, you might try using closed GOPs and headers.
Stroboscope wrote on 4/13/2015, 11:43 AM
Donald, thank you for trying to help.
VideoT , I am amazed by your comments.
So having been a user of Vegas and DVDA for nearly two decades and turning many friends on to them, and upgrading to many versions, now you tell me that Vegas cannot be counted on to output universally usable files?!? IF DVDA needs specifically Vegas files, then Vegas files are somehow specific to DVDA !

Being a bit easier is one thing. Being not usable is quite another!

I will try your GOP suggestion.
But considering that Encore is old and no longer supported and so many users today are multi-app fluent, I would think that there should be a major interest by Sony to provide the spec that works for this purpose.

ALSO I have tried DVDA 6.0 and it is the same problem!!!
videoITguy wrote on 4/13/2015, 12:19 PM
Nothing AMAZing there at all.

If you have not followed the market - then know that Adobe produced Premiere and Encore.

SCS produced VegasPro and DVDAPro

All for the very same reasons - given workflows.

It does not mean that you cannot go outside of the standard workflows - just that you will find it problematic. Best of luck.
Stroboscope wrote on 4/13/2015, 12:22 PM
GETTING THE SAME ERROR WITH NO AUDIO !!!
Former user wrote on 4/13/2015, 3:28 PM
I got this warning with Encore and I encoded a sequence header for each GOP and that fixed it. I was rendering in Telestream though, not Vegas or Premiere.
Jumping Rascal wrote on 4/13/2015, 10:54 PM
You might obtain a more suitable file for DVDA if you put the Premiere output file onto the vegas pro timeline and rerendered it with one of the Sony AVC options suitable for Blue Ray. In addition to converting the file to something more recognizable for DVDA, this might also overcome the blank spots in the audio issue mentioned by DonaldT. It should be rendered in Vegas at the template default bit rate (16Mbps for the blu ray selection). While DVDA will create a BD project up to 40 mbps when creating a BD in DVDA, I would take the hint from the Vegas templates and stick to the lower DVDA default. Also, the manual says that if you are doing a project with more than 3-4 angles, the maximum bitrate to be used is 24. I note that your file is running at 25MB just in case this is a multi angle project.

I like DVDA also (I am still surprised at how many people ask for DVDs or BDs) and hope that SCS will upgrade this product again. All the best in finding a work around for this problem.
john_dennis wrote on 2/6/2016, 12:29 AM
After getting this message from DVDA 6 on a three hour Blu-ray, I successfully created an ISO using DVD Architect 5.0b from another machine. I left all the files that had failed in DVDA 6 where they were and created an ISO over the network from another older machine that had DVDA 5.0b on it. When I inspected the contents of the ISO by mounting it as a virtual Blu-ray drive, the title that DVDA 6.0 failed on only contained 520,146KB where it should have been about 8 GB.
Arthur.S wrote on 2/7/2016, 12:42 PM
Yep, I have stuck with 5.2 as it's been rock solid for me. 6.0 just didn't offer anything extra that was useful (to me). I use MPEG2 DVD files created in TMPGEnc almost exclusively, without any complaints from DVDA. The solution above to re-render to a Vegas template is probably the easiest way round that problem.
reponzo01 wrote on 4/16/2018, 8:58 AM

I figured out something that worked for me. I know this is an old thread, but just in case someone in the future is running into this same issue. I was able to resolve this inside DVDA. From the File menu, there's an option to "Optimize Disc". Click that. Go into each of your video streams and change "Recompress?" from "No" to "Yes". My BluRay is an MPEG2 BluRay, so I picked MPEG2 from the menu below that. Pick a bit rate that's at or higher than the bit rate of your original video stream so that you're not sacrificing quality. Be mindful of your estimated disc size. Long story short, have DVDA re-compress your video streams so that it's happy. I know it's not desirable to re-compress again since you run the risk of losing some video quality. But this did the trick for me.