Help - Blank Video at End of Each Clip

JoeA wrote on 12/19/2011, 1:30 PM

I have 34 MPEG clips in a project using DVD Architect Studio Version 5 (Build 156), each with a menu entry. When playing the burned DVD, at the end of every clip is about a 30 second section of blank video, no audio. (Each one is slightly different, anywhere from 20 to 50 seconds of blank video, no audio.) I actually see the DVD player's counter on the console going up another 20 to 50 seconds before it displays "Menu" (action is to return the previous menu after playing), and then it properly displays the previous menu as it should.

I've checked the original MPEG files in Windows Media Player, and they do *not* have this blank video in them, so it appears to be generated by DVDA. Also, this blank video doesn't show up when playing the burned DVD with Windows Media Player. It doesn't show up in the DVDA Preview either.

The only warnings when I see when generating the DVD are about a few overlaps on menu items, a few things outside the safe area, and the need to recompress audio on each clip.

What might cause this blank video/no audio at the end of each clip, which doesn't show up in Media Player?

Below is info dumped by a tool named MediaInfo on one of the MPEG clips, if that helps.

Thanks,
Joe A.

General
Complete name : Video Clips\Clip-01.mpg
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 333 MiB
Duration : 6mn 36s
Overall bit rate : 7 048 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Duration : 6mn 36s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 6 684 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 9 500 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Bottom Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.645
Stream size : 316 MiB (95%)

Audio
ID : 192 (0xC0)
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Duration : 6mn 36s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 224 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 10.6 MiB (3%)

Menu

Comments

Jack S wrote on 12/20/2011, 5:19 AM

Have you tried playing the DVD on your computer using something like PowerDVD? If you have, do you see the blank video? If you don't it's not DVDAS that's causing it. It could be your DVD player that's taking this time to return to the menu (There is usually a delay between end of play and menu display and this delay can vary between DVD players) although the length of delay in your case does seem very long.
I use DVDAS to build all my DVDs and I have never had that problem. BTW, I am using Build 128 because there are problems with Build 156.
Roll back to Build 128 and see if the same thing happens.

JoeA wrote on 12/23/2011, 1:44 PM

Thanks for the reply. I didn't try PowerDVD, but I have since tried two other DVD players -- neither have this problem. So I can only conclude it is my Samsung Blu-ray player. Hard to believe as it's only one year old, but that's what the evidence points to.