Some VTS not appearing after PREPARE

[laserfan]

I have a DVD with 17 VTS segments, but only the first 12 of these show-up after the Prepare phase as available in RB for processing.

So in the finished titleset, all the Extras are around 1/2 original size (I'd selected "steal 10%") except for VTS-13 thru 17; these appear in the finished titleset at full original filesizes. And all of these VTSes are junk i.e. disclaimers or warnings that I don't even want. How to get rid of them??!!

Is this a limitation of RB-Pro? Only 12 can be processed? Do I have to use another tool to blank these out before processing with RB (this would be very bad!)?

[blutach]

Check the help files. Add the option vts_min_size=0 in the [Options] section of rebuilder.ini and they will all show.

You may need to run prepare again, but that's no biggie.

Regards

[laserfan]

Man, that was quick. Thanks Les.

I'd been all-over the many help files but didn't spot that one.

P.S. While you're here blutach, do you know how to add comments to the .ini file? Usually a ; or # character?

[laserfan]

Alright I tried your suggestion, Les, and it worked great, and I further see now that blanking those 5 VTSes would only improve the movie's bitrate from 3,525Kbps to 3,547Kbps, so the impact would surely be negligible to the main movie. No doubt this is why the decision was made in the first place i.e. why bother to spend time on these things when they have so little impact.

I'll leave my titleset alone rather than re-do the whole thing just to gain those few extra bits!

[blutach]

I tend to look at them in PgcEdit's preview and blank them. They can be DD trailers (I've seen enough of them to last a lifetime), FBIs (ditto) and other crap.

And yes, DVD-RB has a default min of 50Mb or thereabluts before it displays a VTS for editing, encoding and rebuilding. That option turns it off.

Regards

[UncasMS]

just a sidenote

vts_min_size=0

the size in this options defines sectors not kb or mb, where each sector is 2048bytes

the default is 25625 (x 2048 => 52.480.000bytes) which means ~52mb