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Well, after burning around 30 discs attempting to get this to work perfectly, I’ve come to the conclusion that the problem has something to do with having two audio tracks. The problem does NOT occur with only one audio track on the disc.
This is in DVD A version 2 (with the patches applied). I’ve got an inkling that this problem will not be an issue with newer version of the software.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help!
Dave
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Do you think I’d have better luck if I upgraded to a newer version? Is there some way to change the behavior of a chapter point? It appears DVDA is encoding the audio differently at the chapter points, somehow. Is there a way to look at the file that indicates where the chapter points fall, so I can see if it’s telling it to do something strange? Could disc medium be a factor? Could having 2 audio tracks instead of one cause this (like it has to check to see which track is active at every chapter, or something).
Anyway, thanks for any additional thoughts, Edward!
Dave
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Okay, rendering to 5.1 makes no difference. Any thoughts?
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Let me add, the video and audio used in DVDA were 33 minutes each, not rendered chapters that I linked together in DVDA. In other words, one big video file and one big audio file, subdivided into chapters.
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The Vegas project video was uncompressed Quicktime. The audio was 48000 (don’t remember the bitrate).
The Vegas video output was rendered on “good” to the dvd architect ntsc setting.
The Vegas audio was rendered to default ac3 set to -31, and to pcm at 48000/16.
DVD architect did not reformat/modify any of the main video or audio files. As an experiment, I removed all the chapter bookmarks and burned it. As expected, there were no pauses at the places where the chapter points previously existed. I then re-added new chapter points, and still had the problem throughout.
Right now, I’m rendering a version with 5.1 ac3 output instead of stereo to see if that is somehow a factor. The default project audio setting is ac3 Any ideas or suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Dave
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Would open GOPs be a factor that would cause strange behavior on the part of the player? I noticed elsewhere that sometimes chapters start strangely with files generated with open GOPs.
Obviously, I’m grasping for an answer, any answer!
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Tried it on a second system at another house and I had the same issue (1st on a Sony player, then on a liteon). Only at chapter points.
It appears to have something to do with the markers. Or possibly the audio encoder stopped somehow since things tend to go to total silence at that point? Does it encode silence? If so, is there a danger that systems with a receiver attached would shut off the decoding at that point?
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Please feel free to speculate with this one! Other than this little glitch I’m ready to take my stuff to the duplicator. I’ve got to sort this out, and any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
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Hooray! A quick test shows that it works. Phew! That’s a load of my shoulders!
Thanks!
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That’s it! There’s an option for “lock pitch change to stretch” in there. Provided that everything renders okay, my problem’s are solved! Thanks so much.