Greetings,

After importing and editing a video in DVD Author, I received the following error when I tried to output the work to DVD:

"The ordinal 373 could not be located in the dynamic link library "PX.DLL".

Any clue to what is causing this? I have uninstalled and installed several times.

I found a solution that worked on a search with Google. The problem was a corrupted px.dll from Winamp. I obtained a good version of the px.dll, copied it to my C:windowssystem32 directory and all is fine.

Now that I know it works, I will purchase the product.

One comment about TMPGEnc.net. A pre-sales tech question ability would be very helpful.

>I found a solution that worked on a search with Google. The problem was a corrupted px.dll from Winamp. I obtained a good version of the px.dll, copied it to my C:windowssystem32 directory and all is fine.
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>Now that I know it works, I will purchase the product.
>
>One comment about TMPGEnc.net. A pre-sales tech question ability would be very helpful.

I have the same problem. Where would I obtain the "correct" version of the
px.dll?? I have not installed Winamp so not sure why the existing px.dll is
corrupted?? Thanks for your help.

Trying to produce an ISO from authored DVD files via dvd authors writing tool. Iso icon on worktop disappears and program freezes as the file size approaches 4gb. Is DVD author able to split the file balance over 4gb to a second file as DVDDecrypter when you rip in iso mode, or is it unable to do this?. Its the only thing i can think of thats causing this crash. Any help suggestions.

must have been blind just seen the answer in help file, limit is 4gb.
sorry

So I am in the process of creating a bunch of DVD's.
And when I author certain DVD's they hang on output at the same spot.
One DVD hangs at 9%.
One DVD hangs at 45%.

Oddly my setup has produced about 10 DVD's using the same set up so I am not sure what is going wrong.

My set up is.
Camcorder to Panasonic DVD-Ram Recorder(SP Setting using AC-3 Audio)
DVD Ram Disc into computer using TMPGEnc Simple Demux on the .VRO file. This splits the file to M2V and AC3.
Author the DVD using DVDAuthor.
Everything works until I hit the Output button.
Then it hangs. Different DVD's hang in different spots. But the DVD's will hang in the same spot over and over. So disc one hangs at 9% everytime and disc two hangs at 45% everytime.
And since it is hanging in the same spot each time it leads me to believe there is a file corruption or file issue of some sort.

Has anyone run into this and if so did you find a solution?
Can I reencode the files that are causing a problem somehow without having to redigitize and retranfer them?(I tried to ReDemux them but it didn't work)
I use the same set up over and over. And it has worked 8 out of 10 times with no problems.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Rich Shumaker

I figured a workaround. I am setting the end point earlier than the end. It is the closing of the file that seems to be the issue. I think it is ending on a B frame by accident or a P frame and gets hung because of it. So I trim to the last I frame and it seems to work.

Some of the files do seem to be corrupted because I get the wrong time for the clip. A 50 minute clip is saying it is 18 minutes inside the edit window of DVD Author. It still uses the entire space but it just shows the first 18 minutes of the clip in the edit window. When you get this file to burn to DVD it sucks because the file is on the DVD but you couldn't put any markers on it, so you need to Fast Forward thru stuff. Since the file is corrupted I will need to redigitize the original and see if it happens again. For now I am just setting the end point at 18 minutes. Once you change the end frame the size of the file goes down to the correct size(18 minutes in size and not 50 minutes in size, I am using time as the file size will differ depending on the encoding settings you use) And all of the discs have been burning and working very well once I use the end point work around.

So if your DVD is hanging on the output try to set the end frame a few frames earlier on a definite I frame. Also check the time of the clip to see if it is correct in the edit window. If it is not the file will probably need to be redigitized.

Hope this helps someone besides me.

Rich

So I traced the reason I was getting the error on the files. DVD Author will not read multiple files in one .VRO from the DMR. So if you create a playlist with multiple files from the DMR it only sees the first file. So if you have Ten 5 minute clips and create one 50 minute VRO file DVD Author only sees the first 5 minutes. The rest of the file is there but the software is confused by it. This confusion causes the software to Hang.

Also when you create Marker points in the DMR the software does not recognize them. This would be a very helpful feature but I think recognizing all ten of the files in the single .VRO would be more important.

So when Dubbing from the Hard drive to a DVD Ram disc you must do it one file at a time. Otherwise you risk the VRO file being truncated by DVD Author. Or worse hanging up the computer and not being able to get the DVD to author at all.

Rich

Ok here's my problem, I have all the episodes for the show "24" in mpeg fomat (mpeg1 i think) and i burned them (8 episodes to one DVD) and it worked fine. When I tried to do 8 more episodes, it would only encode around 20% of the file. So the VOB should be around 420MB it is only 120MB or so. I don't understand why this is happening. I haven't changed any settings. I know that it does work, but it's not workin anymore for me.

I have plenty of room on my hard drive, so i don't think thats the cause. I have 4 movies i wish to put on one DVD also (all around 800MB-1.2GB) but they are only encoding to 150MB-200MB, the files are in sync, and look great, but they are not finishing.

My hardware is Athlon 1800+, 60GB HD, WinXP pro.

Thanks for any help

you should know what version of MPEG file you have if you capped the files yourself, but thats another issue :)

try remultiplexing the file with tmpgenc mpeg encoder (the free version should do fine if the files are indeed MPEG1).

"FILE"|"MPEG Tools..." -> "Merge & Cut" -> "Add" -> set output path -> "Run".

if the output-file is still complete and in sync you should be fine.
if not, you probably have a corrupted MPEG file.
don't count on MPEG files from some capture-app (or wherever you might get them from) are valid and standard-conform, just because they play nice in media-player.

bye,
--hustbaer

I have a 30 second DTS demo VOB that I am puting on a demo DVD. The VOB in question contains one audio track in DTS5.1 format. Since this is non-compliant with the DVD specs, how can I make it work? I tried ignoring the warning but the VOB in question did not play any audio once authored. The other DD5.1 titles worked perfectly on the same DVD.

John

I sort of figured this out. It is due to the fact that the DTS audio stream is not designated the primary audio (0x80). Instead it is 0x88. Now I just have to figure out how to change those bits in the VOB or IFO and I am good to go. I think I will give IFOEDIT a try. Later folks.

John

The first trial version I installed had a bug which prevented me from using TMPGENC DVD. I downloaded the latest version (posted Jan. 16th), which fixes my problem. The only problem is that the 30 day clock wasn't reset and I only have a few days left to evaluate it. Is there a way to get a full 30 day evaluation?

No legal way...

Sorry about my english. My Prob.:

When i select the menue "Double Track 1" or "Double Track 2" i cant edit this. But i like to have 2 buttons ( Play all - Chapter Menue) in my Startup Menue. Also i like to edit this Buttons with my own Photoshop alpha-PSD Buttons. Looks great in the Track Menue, but i cant change, resize and replace the 2 buttons in this Main Menue. There is no chance to make my own button in a Main Menue?? PLZ help!

You can't edit this Template, but you can edit this Style. Chose the Template, click on Edit, then on Yes...

In the menu editor I have set everything to motion menu.
I can set the seconds of the main menu animation here but can't find anywhere to set the length of each animated thumbnail.

In the help file it says...

"The chapter thumbnail will be animated for the specified number of seconds within the area of the thumbnail."

Where do i enter these seconds?

I've looked everywhere or does it use the main menu seconds?

Many Thanks

since the whole "background" INCLUDING the thumbnails is only ONE mpeg sequence, the loop-time for both is identical.
hence, you can only specify one time for the whole thing.

if you want - say - your thumbnails to loop every 2 seconds, and your background to loop every 4 seconds, you can make small mpeg-files for your thumbnails, that contain 2 runs of your 2 second loop.
that's just an example, but i hope you get the idea.

bye,
--hustbaer

Thanks for your reply.

The track menu itself is not aminated, just the thumbnails although the main menu background is animated and has no thumbnails.

Does this make a difference?

uh.
i see.
i misinterpreted your question.
sorry.

of course it would be technically possible to have different loop-lengths on every distinct page (just not within a page), but i dont think tmpgenc dvd author supports this.
adjust me if im wrong :)

so you should just set the loop-time to the duration of the main-menu-background-movie - that way your chapter-preview thunbs will loop the same length - but at least the background-loop will be the length you want it to be...

if you only have one animated thingy per page, everything will be fine, just that all loops will use the same duration.

bye,
--hustbaer

isn't that stupid: all menus must be the same length.... I'm leaving Tmpgenc.

I have 13 thumbnail chapters and want to create two Track Menus consisting of 7 and 6 but the menu editor only seems to give me 6 or 13 chapters to a page thus creating 3 or 1 track menu.

Is there a way round this so I can create two track menus without hiding any chapters?

Many Thanks

that means 1, 2, 3 etc. on the remote.

No idea.

Thanks

TMPGEnc DVD Author can't do that. Try DVDLab.

That's a bit of a throwback to VCD.

Are you sure you want a menu like this?

Number keys are for chapters rather than titles.

Is it possible to save a previously created menu ? The menus I will be using are similar, with only a few text changes between them. The "history" button does show the previous text but you still have to "cut and paste" each entry in the menu. I am trying to remove the error prone user(me) as much as possible from the creation process.

Thanks for your help

Is it possible to loop motion items - for example, having a background image + music item that loops, so that you can have ongoing music for as long as the menu page is up, or a video clip used to identify a chapter that keep looping round. At the moment, these things seem to run once, then end.

everything loops fine on my standalone-player.

did you use a hardware-player, or software?

bye,
--hustbaer