Why does DVDA DELETE my prepare folder?

farss wrote on 2/11/2004, 3:43 PM

I've made 100s of DVDs without a hitch and I'm now upto the 3rd one in a series but now the wheels have fallen of.
I start to prepare into a folder I've created and shortly into the process I get the "Invalid data was encountered in a mpeg file" error. (Fair enough, maybe). But the spooky thing is DVDA has deleted the folder!

Of course it would be kind of nice if DVDA told me WHICH file it had the problem with.

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aussiemick wrote on 2/11/2004, 6:27 PM

Have had the same problem as I do not render mpeg's in DVDA. This is one of my beef's with DVDA, you don't get enough chance to make settings on your DVD's or enough info to find out problems. It is too structured.

farss wrote on 2/11/2004, 7:02 PM

All tha assets are encoded outside of DVDA i.e from the Vegas timeline. I've narrowed the problem down after mush investigation.
I can mux all the assets just fine, it adding the Scene Selection menu that makes it go badly wrong.

This makes NO sense at all, all that is is set of pointers into the mpeg file. This is very wierd, I'm not doing anything vaguely complicated. The scene selection menu is only using markers place in the mpeg file from Vegas when the file was encoded.
What is going on I have not a clue. Now I know what's causing it how to fix it and still have a scene selection menu?

farss wrote on 2/11/2004, 7:38 PM

After hours of experimentationI find that by changing the project properties for audio from ac3 to PCM the problem goes away. DVDA does care what the default audio fromat is if I don't have a scene selection menu.

Now that is mighty wierd. I also found that cancelling a 'Prepare' operation causes DVDA to DELETE the folder that it was preparing into.

So that's two bugs that need fixing!