[ulrichburke]

Dear Anyone who reads this.

I'm trying to add a menu to a video, so I can point at it with the remote, when it's in the TV DVD player, and click on Scenes, Play Video, just like a shop bought DVD player.

Everything's been legally purchased here.

So I set up the video footage as per the Help Screen instructions. Divided it into chapters, got the menu up and running. Dummy-compiled it - without the real video being included, that lets you test the menu without having to wait for ages - and the menu works like a dream. Put the real video back in and got 'Pre-Verification Error - Video Type does not match.' Picked the process to pieces and discovered what 'demuxing' meant.

Well, I demuxed the video, went through the whole process with that and EXACTLY the same thing happened. With one difference.

DVD Lab Pro has got 2 progress bars - I call them 'b/sh bars' because they're eye candy basically, those sort of things - but anyway. One fills up rapidly and every time it hits the end the other one fills up a tiny bit. This time round it DID seem to get a lot farther before booting the video out, but maybe that's just because it was demuxed, I honestly have no idea. Anyway.

I'm enclosing the Report the program generated. Hopefully it'll mean something to you, because it doesn't mean a whole lot to me (no I wasn't born thick, I worked very hard at it and I've got the certificates to prove it!)

I know it says Video type does not match Frame size, but I've tried 4:3 AND 16:9 and get EXACTLY the same error report. I've tried changing the settings in VTS Properties as opposed to Project Properties - not that I know what I'm doing, I'm just pressing all the buttons and hoping something goes right! - and that didn't make any difference. Same error report. I can't find a combination of settings that work. I've tried other videos - same error report. So there's obviously something dead simple I'm too thick to understand.

Which is where you guys come in.

If any of you know of any alternative piece of software that will let me put a menu on the front end of a DVD without all this fussiness and error report generation, please tell me. I don't mind chucking DVD Lab Pro. I don't even mind forking out up to a couple of hundred bucks (though if there's any freebie software that'll do it, or try-before-buy stuff, GREAT!) for a program that'll work reliably and simply. I just wanna put a menu on a DVD that I can point to with the TV DVD player remote and click on! Anyway, here's the report.

*** DVD Lab Pro Verification Log ***
12 - 11 - 2007 -- 9:9:23


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* VMG Verification *
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Number of VTS - 1
Number of Menus: 1


Menu 01 - Type - Dummy

Number of imported VTS: 0

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* VTS Verification *
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<<< VTS Number 1 >>>
Number of Titles: 1


Title 01 - Type - Joined VOB
Segment 1, Video File D:\Nightwatch for Converting\DVD Nightwatch\VOB_1.vob
Video type does not match Frame size: 720 X 480 Frame rate: 4 [1--23.976, 2--24, 4--29.97, 3--25, 5--30]
Aspect Ratio: 43 [43--4:3, 169--16:9]
Chroma: 1 [1--4:2:0, 2--4:2:2, 3--4:4:4]
Audio Stream Count: 1
Subtitle Stream Count: 0
Audio type: AC3_Mot, Channel: 1, Sampling: 48000, Bitrate: 192000



Number of Menus: 5


Menu 01 - Type - Dummy


Menu 02 - Type - Still
nMenu cell count - 1

Menu Image File D:\Nightwatch Temp Compile\55196080_tmp1.bmp
Picture size - 720 x 480
Menu Audio File - None
Menu Sub-Picture File D:\Nightwatch Temp Compile\55196080_tmpsub1.bmp
Picture size - 720 x 480


Menu 03 - Type - Still
nMenu cell count - 1

Menu Image File D:\Nightwatch Temp Compile\55219048_tmp1.bmp
Picture size - 720 x 480
Menu Audio File - None
Menu Sub-Picture File D:\Nightwatch Temp Compile\55219048_tmpsub1.bmp
Picture size - 720 x 480


Menu 04 - Type - Still
nMenu cell count - 1

Menu Image File D:\Nightwatch Temp Compile\82440432_tmp1.bmp
Picture size - 720 x 480
Menu Audio File - None
Menu Sub-Picture File D:\Nightwatch Temp Compile\82440432_tmpsub1.bmp
Picture size - 720 x 480


Menu 05 - Type - Still
nMenu cell count - 1

Menu Image File D:\Nightwatch Temp Compile\170585216_tmp1.bmp
Picture size - 720 x 480
Menu Audio File - None
Menu Sub-Picture File D:\Nightwatch Temp Compile\170585216_tmpsub1.bmp
Picture size - 720 x 480

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Pre verification fails. Process abort ! - 1998

Thanks in anticipation

ulrichburke

[lister]

I doubt you'll get much help with copying copyrighted material ulrichburke, have a read of the board rules first.