Subs off by several seconds in a strange movie layout

@D3s7: I sent the IFO files to the address on the ScenAid website. The header is "The IFO files you wanted from StifflerStealth". I thought I had this thing backed up yesterday, but there was a minor problem with the audio. I demuxed by VobID, imported the files manually into Scenarist, and then added the files so that Episode 1 was PGC1 vobid 1, Episode 2 was PGC2 vobid2... and so on. Rember that PGC1 had vobid 3, so I reordered things a bit. I compiled the DVD and everything from audio to subs were in sync, but the audio for episode 2 refused to play until the chapter 2. I played the audio files for episode 2 and it was all there. I guess the audio is used to being first in the set of VOB files and now it's in second place. These episode DVDs are expensive. That's why I want to create high quality backups to play instead of the original DVD. None of the transcoders gives me the quality of CCE, and I can say that I tried every single one including the Sneak Peak at CloneDVD 2 (it's free so I figured what the hey). However, I have not tried ReJig yet, and since DIF4U supports it I might try it. Stiff

ok: comapre the ifos with each other. The original and the newly authored one (see if the stream values for the pgcs are the same under pg_city). If not adjust them

I may know why your scenes are off slightly with the ScenAid script. - I'll check the code tonight And I'm thinking maybe RA has the same problem. I thought I took this kind of scenario in mind when building the layouts however, it's possible both apps are having trouble finding the "start" position for cell 2 because cell 1 is missing. But by looking at the layout, I see no reason a PGC backup of this wouldn't work - no vobid's are reused except 4 which is layerbreak and doesn't matter anyway. Might be easier to go back to that method and if it still holds true, just adjust the .sst files 3-4 sec back :)

@ D3s7: There are nearly a thousand Subs for PGC 1 times 2 for two Languages. There is another issue I noticed, and I don't know which program is at fault. The re-encoded MPEG2 files end up being a little over two seconds too long in any demux I do with this DVD. I found this out when I did a CellID demux. I loaded the original Cell (1/01) in DVD Maestro (I've been using Scenarist and Maestro to figure this out) and then I loaded the reauthored Cell (1/01) into Maestro. Then I noticed the time difference. I used a program I wrote to calculate the correct number of frames, and loaded that new number into BatchCCE. The new, new Cell (1/01) was the correct length, but 2 seconds of the video was missing compared to the next cell. Stiff

Out of curiosity: did you have to rename all cells to get dvd-rb to rebuild them? That must have been some work :D

Could you PM me with the DVD name.. i'm always up for a challenge. Been dissapointed so far. :(