So, for a while now, I've been using dvd-lab pro 2 to author the video portion of my dvd-a discs.
I've been trying to find the simplest solutions and methods, and eliminate redundancies and waste.
The process used to entail creating an mpg of a slide show for title slides, encoding the audio to dolby digital and dts, and importing all of that into a movie and creating a menu.
At some point I decided, this was more than I really need for what is primarily a music disc. I remember when sacd and dvd-a came out, as much as I liked the bells and whistles of dvd-a, at the end of the day I felt sacd had the solid audio format, operating just like a CD. And so I moved away from menus and title slides, which reduced a lot of time in the process, I didn't need to create a bunch of slides, and lay out a menu anymore. I would make an mpg of a single still slide of the album cover art, just to throw something on the screen. I also did away with dolby digital and kept dts only on the dvd-v side, as I really see no reason to have double the audio on the disc, and I don't really know of a receiver out there that is only doing dolby digital and not dts. I know that a dts only soundtrack isn't necessarily to spec, but....I really don't care. It's superior to dolby digital, I don't need the same audio content on a disc twice, it's wasteful and unnecessary.
And then I made a recent discovery, that dvd lab pro 2 has an option to add to a disc called audio title, which only requires adding audio. You can add a still to display while playing the audio content. This was exactly what I had been looking for, and it was right there in front of me. Rendering an entire mpg out of one still picture was just so wasteful.
However....I seem to have uncovered a problem by getting to this point. DVD-lab pro seems to have this annoying habit of not reading the timing of a dts program correctly, thinking it's over a minute shorter than it really is. This isn't a problem when you're laying it out along with an mpg that is timed properly, as it will make the program the length of the mpg and continue playing the audio past the time it thinks it cuts off at. But, now that I'm laying out dts only in an audio title, it decides to end the program at the point that it thinks the dts program ends, which results in the disc ending over a minute too soon.
Now, I suppose one may argue if I were authoring my dvds to spec, this wouldn't be an issue.
But, that's a cop out. The specs have just been hiding this issue.
What I can't figure out is, just why is dvd lab pro 2 not getting the proper time off the dts?
Has anyone else run into anything like this?
Is there anything I can do to get dvd lab pro to continue past the point it thinks is the cut off point? I tried creating a last chapter at the end point, but that hasn't worked.
I suppose I could add a few minutes of silence to the end. Sure, the disc would continue on for a bit maybe, but is that much of an issue?
I dunno, hopefully someone else can chime in with some insight.
I've been trying to find the simplest solutions and methods, and eliminate redundancies and waste.
The process used to entail creating an mpg of a slide show for title slides, encoding the audio to dolby digital and dts, and importing all of that into a movie and creating a menu.
At some point I decided, this was more than I really need for what is primarily a music disc. I remember when sacd and dvd-a came out, as much as I liked the bells and whistles of dvd-a, at the end of the day I felt sacd had the solid audio format, operating just like a CD. And so I moved away from menus and title slides, which reduced a lot of time in the process, I didn't need to create a bunch of slides, and lay out a menu anymore. I would make an mpg of a single still slide of the album cover art, just to throw something on the screen. I also did away with dolby digital and kept dts only on the dvd-v side, as I really see no reason to have double the audio on the disc, and I don't really know of a receiver out there that is only doing dolby digital and not dts. I know that a dts only soundtrack isn't necessarily to spec, but....I really don't care. It's superior to dolby digital, I don't need the same audio content on a disc twice, it's wasteful and unnecessary.
And then I made a recent discovery, that dvd lab pro 2 has an option to add to a disc called audio title, which only requires adding audio. You can add a still to display while playing the audio content. This was exactly what I had been looking for, and it was right there in front of me. Rendering an entire mpg out of one still picture was just so wasteful.
However....I seem to have uncovered a problem by getting to this point. DVD-lab pro seems to have this annoying habit of not reading the timing of a dts program correctly, thinking it's over a minute shorter than it really is. This isn't a problem when you're laying it out along with an mpg that is timed properly, as it will make the program the length of the mpg and continue playing the audio past the time it thinks it cuts off at. But, now that I'm laying out dts only in an audio title, it decides to end the program at the point that it thinks the dts program ends, which results in the disc ending over a minute too soon.
Now, I suppose one may argue if I were authoring my dvds to spec, this wouldn't be an issue.
But, that's a cop out. The specs have just been hiding this issue.
What I can't figure out is, just why is dvd lab pro 2 not getting the proper time off the dts?
Has anyone else run into anything like this?
Is there anything I can do to get dvd lab pro to continue past the point it thinks is the cut off point? I tried creating a last chapter at the end point, but that hasn't worked.
I suppose I could add a few minutes of silence to the end. Sure, the disc would continue on for a bit maybe, but is that much of an issue?
I dunno, hopefully someone else can chime in with some insight.