Issues with chapter (in/out points) on playback

PDB wrote on 11/7/2016, 12:45 PM

Good evening!

Just finished a project in DVDA 7 incluiding a main video, chapters and a second video. Has been a bit of a learning curve since it has been years since I last used the programme.

Anyway, the chapters included in the video were intended to be played as unique videos: in other words each chapter was to be a unique entity. I therefore set them up by replicating the original video x the intended chapters and setting the in/out points in each. So far so good.

The problem arose when I played the DVD from a Blue-Ray player. The very last chapter would play fine IF, and only IF, I played it in succession to the previous chapter. If I tried to play it as a first option from the menu, the sound track would launch a few seconds into the video and was completely choppy. I tried different physical DVD types and at times it would work; at times it just played as described. So after a lot of hair pulling, I gave up and just rendered that final section out as a new video from within Vegas, imported it into the DVD project and set it up as the final "chapter".

And there you go problem solved.

I'm not too sure whether this is a DVDA issue, a problem with the player or what.

And I really wish the preview function worked as it is supposed to. Pressing the menu button having paused a video did nothing and nor did other options (I didn't bother documenting the faults since I was too "upset" at the workarounds I have had to go through (plus a number of burnt disks...)

Anyway, moving onto my next project, looking forward to future mishaps...

 

Best regards,

Paul.

 

Comments

Former user wrote on 11/7/2016, 1:55 PM

First check is to try a different DVD or Bluray player. If it does the same thing, then you have to assume it is a DVDA error.  Is this a single layer disk?  Is it full (single or dual layer)?

PDB wrote on 11/7/2016, 2:19 PM

Thanks David,

I frist thought it was a disk issue (was burning to a DVD +RW for trial and error purposes. Then tried a +R and got the same problem. And it was only happening at that particluar chapter "point". I gave up in the end and just rendered that section of the video out as a single entity and added it to the project and the problem has gone (using the same +RW I was using originally.) I'm not sure if it is the player having trouble "keeping up", and I don´t have access to any other player at this particluar moment (I'm handing in the project tomorrow....).

The disks were single layer and were not full; the whole project was about 2.3 GB...

What really gets me is that, given the preview function does not work as it should -or at least I was unable to get back to the menu while testing one of the chapters by pressing the menu button on the remote- the testing was all the more cumbersome.

Bets regards,

 

Paul.

Former user wrote on 11/7/2016, 2:24 PM

I am still using DVDA 5.2 so I can't test your issue. Maybe someone else can chime in, but it sounds like a programming issue (within DVDA, not your programming). The reason I asked if it was full was in case you were having a seek issue, but with 2.3GB, that probably isn't the problem. Hope someone else can help.