Transforming titles into chapters

[blutach]

Your IFOs have not properly referenced the new video.

Go back to the start. Add the new cells (one by one). Save. Then add another.

There may be an easier way - use a prog called Addchapter by jsoto - see the VobBlanker site. It can add 33 chapters (or whatever) to your title easily, while PgcEdit adds cells one by one in a labour of love.

Then replace the video as you did before with VobBlanker.

However, if you wish to post your IFOs as they were before you tried FixVTS, I'll take a look and try to fix them so you don't need to go thru this again. Note that VobBlanker has special settings for you to consider when replacing titles. Can you please post what those settings are in your more settings (post a PNG pic via imageshack please).

Regards

[fredhammersmith]

Again, I must admit i do not know how to post IFOs. The link provided in a previous post leads me to this message:
"Invalid Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

[fredhammersmith]

VobBlanker setting

For the VOB blanker settings...
this is a part of the log file...

--------------TITLE VOB PREPARING PHASE-
VTS 01: Keeping PGC 01
--------------TITLE VOB WRITING PHASE STARTED-
VTS 01: Keeping Cell VID/CID: 01/01 --> 01/01
VTS 01: Keeping Cell VID/CID: 02/01 --> 02/01
VTS 01: Keeping Cell VID/CID: 03/01 --> 03/01
VTS 01: Keeping Cell VID/CID: 15/01 --> 04/01
WARNING: No Navs found!: outputting a blank cell
VTS 01: Keeping Cell VID/CID: 16/01 --> 05/01
WARNING: No Navs found!: outputting a blank cell
VTS 01: Keeping Cell VID/CID: 17/01 --> 06/01
WARNING: No Navs found!: outputting a blank cell

And these are the settings:
(see attachment)

Hopefully i will do something right soon!

[blutach]

There's an FAQ on how to post IFOs.

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=67158

Now, you will simply be doing it from your project folder, not a DVD.

Regards

[fredhammersmith]

Oh, just zip 'em. Here it goes.

[blutach]

Alright - first thing - lets do a VIDChanger.

Get it from here. Very simple to run and won't take a jiffy cos you only have 17 minutes of video.

Your input IFO is VTS_01_0.IFO. Pick an output folder. Click on titles domain and fix VOB ID, Full VOB process mode and process.

Also, your navigation is stuffed after title 1 plays. Can you post VIDEO_TS.VOB to a file sharing service please? Rapidshare is OK. Or if the file is small enough to post here, zip it and post it please. We'll get you there.

Regards

[fredhammersmith]

VID change done.
VIDEO_TS.VOB on its way...

At the same time, I'm going through the add chapters (with Addchaptger) and replacing them (with VobBlanker) on another copy of the project.

So we'll see...

[fredhammersmith]

VIDEO_TS.VOB link:

http://rapidshare.de/files/23178740/VIDEO_TS.VOB.html

[blutach]

Go to bed, fred. In the morning, it should be fixed.

Regards

[fredhammersmith]

Indeed.
Thanks man!

[blutach]

OK Fred.

You have fallen victim to the rather silly DVD VM command specs that say you can't program your menu the way you'd like to. Why you can't jump from certain domains to certain things is impossible to answer - you just have to follow the rules.

I have reprogrammed your menu buttons and IFOs.

Download them at http://rapidshare.de/files/23187455/...smith.zip.html

1. Copy these into your project folder, overwriting the IFOs and VIDEO_TS.VOB that is there.
   
2. Open the project in PgcEdit
   
3. Save (Ctrl-S) and exit PgcEdit.

Now run VidChanger as described above.

Regards

[fredhammersmith]

As I begin my working day (9h30, Montreal time, friday) and I see the post above, I guess it is close to midnight for blutach. So he may not see this before a couple of days, but man, i own you one
Have a very nice week-end!
I'll try to "pay forward", this was one nice display of the greatness of the global community.

[blutach]

11:47 pm here

Regards

[fredhammersmith]

Hi again...
I made a copy of the finished project, with the intent of normalizing the sound level.

Now, when I tried to re-open the copied project in PGCedit, just to look around, i got an error message:
WARNING: The number of VOB IDs stored in the VTS_C_ADT table of VTS 1 (1) don't match the real number of VOB IDs in the table (25). The table will be fixed with the correct number of VOB ID s(25). Please save the DVD!
I will edit this message as I move along.

[EDIT] Can't demux it... Still stops at 5%. Maybe i will make another pass with VIDchanger.

[EDIT] But the DVD works fine anyway, despite the default noticed by PgcEdit. So I'll use it anyway... But for "educational" purposes, maybe blutach can comment.

[EDIT] And finally, last remarks... Doing another fresh copy of the project (not knowing that blutach was working on my IFO files), i went through the whole process once again:

1. insert 33 chapters in 1st title (AddChapter.exe)
2. Replace the 33 empty cells by content from 33 titles (VOB files) with VobBlanker
3. Inserting JumpVTS_PTT commands in the 34 buttons of the menus, replacing the JumpToTitle commands generated by NVE (Nero) at the beginning of the project (PgcEdit)
4. Deleting the 33 useless VOB files, whose content has been transfered in the 1st title (PgcEdit)
5. Demux the 1st title and normalize the sound level of the WAV file (PgcDemux and SoundForge)
6. Remux the audio and the video with MuxMan
7. Burn

The resulting DVD works fine in certain DVD players (a cheap Magnasonic model, Nero ShowTime software), but cannot go past the 1st chapter in other DVD players (PlayStation 2, a Toshiba model)... Why? Well, I cetainly don't know. Maybe it is useless to pursue the reason . Anyway, maybe somebody else will go through the same process again, and encounters the same pitfalls. So be prepared for a long ride. And hopefully, somebody like blutach will help along.

Cheers!

[blutach]

Save the DVD like PgcEdit says to do after it finds an error.

Playback problems - probably poor media/burning problem, or you may have a flag incorrectly set. I expect the mux rate is very high on this little DVD and may be bumping up at the maximum.

Regards