too many items in menus in DVDA2?

Corusco wrote on 4/12/2005, 10:34 PM

I am authoring a multimedia presentation disk which has around 110-130 independent small clips, organised into 12 menus, about 10 or so per menu. When I try to prepare the disk, I get error 0x8004e716 (message missing). This may be a generic error code, I don't know.

When I remove around 30 items from the disk, it allows me to prepare and render fine. I am rerendering all the audio from my clips in dvda2. Any ideas? Anyone else run into this before? This disk won't be used by me, so I prefer to keep the clips separate to make it easy for the enduser. Any help would be appreciated!

Comments

Kanst wrote on 4/13/2005, 3:19 AM

99 clips limit

bStro wrote on 4/13/2005, 6:51 AM

Far as I know, the 99 limit refers to how many chapters can be in a title, not how many titles (clips) can be on the disc. I presume the original poster has these clips as individual titles, so the 99 chapter limit shouldn't even be an issue. Even if they were all in one title set (say, as a compilation), DVDA's just supposed to put in chapters markers up to 99 and leave the rest without markers.

Rob

bStro wrote on 4/13/2005, 7:01 AM

Can you tell us more about the clps being used? What format are they? Are they all from the same source? If not, perhaps it's actually one or more of the clips themselves (the ones you removed) that are causing DVDA to choke.

There was this thread with a couple people that were getting that message. No solutions turned up on the thread, though.

Also, be sure you're using the latest update of DVDA -- 2.0b.

Rob

ScottW wrote on 4/13/2005, 9:25 AM

DVDA is putting all of the individual clips in the same VTS, and there's a limit of 99 titles in each VTS (this is a limit in the DVD specifications).

If you had the ability to create multiple VTS's, then you could get around this limit becaause a DVD can contain up to 65,535 titles. To utilize multiple VTS's you'll need something like DVD Lab Pro.

--Scott

Corusco wrote on 4/13/2005, 10:49 AM

Thanks for the help everyone! True, I am only using single chapter clips, so I didn't expect that the 99 chapter limitation would apply. As for the clips I am using, they are all from the same source disk, and a little more than half of them are still in the same format that I pulled them from the disk: Quicktime. The rest I have rendered in Vegas 5 to DVD NTSC compliant MPEG2 files. Also, I am using vers.2.0b.

It seems that Scott W. has hit my problem on the head, a limitation which I had no idea about, but makes sense. Switching to another program would be a big hassle since I already have so much time invested in this already, but it may be my only option if I want to keep this as it is.

Thanks again, and any further comments are appreciated!

Phil Spitler wrote on 4/24/2005, 12:37 PM

I am now getting the same warning.. too many titles.

Will it play on set top boxes or is the warning correct?

The reason I have so many titles is that I have a menu to select individual clips but it seems that I need to add the clips multiple times and set different in and out points. '

I would love to be able to just play a chapter then return to the menu before the next chapter starts. Is this possible?

Thanks

Phil