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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi --</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">There appears to be something messed up in the current VLC file output. It's been going on for at least several weeks, don't know how much longer. A bunch of DVDs have become coasters, when I tried to directly turn VLC .VOB into as ISO (the file was properly put in VIDEO_TS), or used Nero, which crashed while operating on .mpg files.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm using a very latest test build, one that I compiled today from the trunk. Checking svn, looks like it's rev 9884.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Output is mp2v, mpeg PS, .mpg. I've tried both mp2a and a52 audio, 192K/channel, 2 channel. My source is a .ASF that I generated from the original movie, using VLC. Best I can tell the .ASF itself is fine, it's the transcoding to an mpeg ps where things aren't quite right.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The resulting .mpg files are showing as corrupt, using multiple video mastering apps -- Nero, DVD Hive, etc. The apps will all churn away on the .mpg file, then end. Nero ends up going into vapor lock -- many segments that it says it cannot encode, then it gives up and simply disappears. DVD Hive crunches the file, but in stage 2, audio synchronization, it ends up reporting that the file is corrupt.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I switched back to 0.7.2, the April drop on the nightly build area. Output was .mpg/MPEG PS/mpga 192K. DVD Hive had no problem with it.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Checking my disk, I'm pretty sure that I got a successful file (one that could be handled by DVD mastering software) back on 12/14 (I have a .ASF file with that date, one that I then converted/burned into a working DVD).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Anyhow, I'd say there's something definitely awry, a reproducible problem, and it looks like it's audio/synchro related.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(I now know enough not to try setting up an ISO from a VLC output, at least -- on Windows DVDHive is a decent freeware app to do the initial file checks, will generate an error if the source file is bad/unuseable)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks.</FONT>
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