DRM problems with hidden blocks and DVD Rebuilder

[trioxin]

I have hid all the blocks for warnings and intro stuff on the dvd. I have also linked first play to the root menu. I have also removed the extra features using the hide all blocks function. I then export the dvd. The dvd will play fine in WinDVD and DVD Shrink has no problems with it either. The problem occurs when I try to use DVD Rebuilder. It is able to compress everything fine, it craps out when trying to rebuild the movie. It always craps out on the cells that have been hidden, and nothing else. I prefer to user rebuilder as it provides the highest quality from recoding not transcoding. I have tried many different combinations of hiding certain cells and have come to the conclusion that dvd rebuilder doesn't like the blank cells (00:00:00;15 in length). Is there any way to replace them with a blank cell of 1sec length instead? Or is this just a glitch with DRM & DVD Rebuilder

[DimadSoft]

It is not a problem to replace the blank cells with longer ones, but will it solve the problem? Can you do an experiment? Make a new blank with some authoring tool. Import previously exported by DvdReMake dvd and replace (right click and "replace block") all cells that were hidden with your new blank. Export. Does RB handles this disk differently?

[trioxin]

I tried to watch the M2V files that Rebuilder was stalling on; they were all corrupt. The hidden cells somehow produced a 3meg file when going through CCE basic. So I switched encoders to QuENC and let DVD-Rebuilder do it thing and guess what, it worked. The blank cells turned out to be 34kbits in size and played normally in WinDVD (couldn't see anything on screen due to the small length of the clip, but it did not give me an error while trying to open the file). So armed with the fact that the encoder was causing the problem, I updated CCE basic. It was only a minor upgrade according to CCE's website, but it made Rebuilder work flawlessly. Thanks for the help!

[jptheripper]

could you please be specfic to the exact version you upgraded cce to? my rebuilder did the same thing, producing 2960 kb (i think) m2v files from the DRM blank files that kileld output

[DimadSoft]

There was a post somewhere on doom9 that there are some problems with low bit rate reencoding. May be it is somehow related.

[jptheripper]

I am curious, but does the blank file actually have a bitrate? that sounds like a wierd question also doesnt the blank clip have to have the same audio as the video ? ie if a blank clip is inserted at the front of a VTS with 2 ac3 tracks, a dd2.0 track and a dts track, does the blank clip need to have the same?

[ShadowKnight]

I believe that its just replacing the entire clip (audio and video)

[jptheripper]

Yes i know that, I am curious as to whether the replacement clip having different audio/subtitle streams then the other cells in the VTS may be a problem

[trioxin]

I upgraded to version CCE Basic 2.69.01.04 and everything worked fine. Another option is to try QuENC (freeware) to see if it works. What I did was strip my movie down to 1 cell (first chapter) and left the FBI warnings intact. I hid all cells after the first chapter, and the exported dvd was approx. 300mb. Since I knew that it had problems with blank cells but not others, this allowed me to try different encoders without having to wait several hours for the results. Hope this helps to track down your problem.

[old-hack]

The latest version of CCE Basic is 2.69.01.10 as of June 30, 2004.

[BlueTof]

do you use eclecce with 2.69 version ?

[old-hack]

No need to use eclcce with a licensed version of CCE.

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