Hi... PGC4 Does actually appear physically 1st in the vobset.. as reported by IFOupdate... and does play first.... the analysis IS correct.. I just couldn't get a successful author out of it if i used the reported sequence.. the prob was that if I encoded the entire set using DVD2AVI I couldn't get the audio to align correctly after that... the orig author put the audio for PGC4 on separate track.... deliberately.. to prevent use of Create Synch audio.. Audio came out from a dvd2avi demux as PGC2+3 and PGC1 audio bundeled in 1 ac3 for all related tracks/languages... and PGC4 audio came out as a small file separate from the rest....No matter how tightly I aligned the end of PGC4 and the start of 2/3 and then PGC1 - the audio went out of synch on PGC2 and the rest. I took the practical workaround approach and split the vobset in the end to PGC's and physically recreated the 4 - 2+3 - 1 structure in maestro and then adjusted this to 2+3 - 1 - 4 as described which worked out ok, even tho I had physically moved location of PGC4.. after I'd confirmed that would all work etc using orig unprocessed m2v's.. just framserved the PGC1 m2v using DVD2AVI and CCE to compress etc I think as long as the playlists are representative the physical location of the segments don't matter.. on this title anyway... hope that helps
PGC2 is interesting...... i wish you could see these in maestro.... these are illegal chapters... I have to make a video segment over 8 times longer than the 1 demuxed from the vob just to be able to enter 3 chapters in maestro... they are locked tight against each other something is going on.. but i note your comments and will make further tests PGC's 2 to 8 are there simply to confuse/cause problems if missing ..they contain no content.... at maximum zoom in maestro they don't even take up 1 index mark. All 8 together were smaller than the 1 single clip i made to accept 3 chaptermarks... also in my fix i just duplicated the same clip 8 times once for each PGC.... so the orig content was definitely irrelavent
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Just had a thought (that's an event in and of itself). What if IFOUpdate had an option to, when it encounters PGCs that have no content (no chapters, no cells), just leave them intact. That way you wouldn't have to attempt to recreate them. With no content there is no reason to change them anyhow... All the chapter information could be adjusted to account for this. Whoah... Why didn't I think of that one before? jdobbs
@Bruce Leroy, The Maestro mode is a part of IFOUpdate, not IFOEDIT, and yes it is in the lastest version. @auenf, I'll add the change to IFOUpdate this weekend. :) jdobbs