I use MEP Pro Premium 17.0.3.184. I tried to burn a video that had a lot of chapter marks and I kept getting aborted encoding error. I think 84000f4 or similar.
When I removed some of the chapter marks, the burn worked OK. My question: how does the number and/or placement of chapter marks affect encoding? What are the "rules"? Does adding chapter marks make the the mixing down process take longer?
Hi.
My understanding of this is that you cannot have Chapter Markers that are less than a certain number of seconds apart. I think that number is quite low, but am unsure.
As to those "rules" you asked about, I think there are "none". Chapter Markers are intended, in my view, to help the viewer to find and play specific areas of the exported video without time-consuming "searching", but, apart from the fact that one marker must be created at the beginning of a DVD (MEP will not allow you to create the disc without that marker) there are no other rules that I am aware of.
As to whether the number of chapters can the "make the mixing down process take longer" I think the strict answer is No, because the file which contains the data to tell the DVD player where, exactly, those chapter points are located, is, I believe, created after the main audio/video files have been created by the Export process. From my experience I have seen no evidence that fewer chapter points equals a faster creation of that data file.
HTH
Jeff
Hi
. . . . how does the number and/or placement of chapter marks affect encoding? What are the "rules"? . . .
The DVD standard 'rules' are:
In practical terms, ie menu navigation, operability, and playback for a single 2hr long movie, ie a full DVD,:
If you have more than 9 chapter links per chapter page this can cause issues.
. . . . . burn a video that had a lot of chapter marks . . . . .
How many chapters are you adding to a single movie?
How many chapter links per chapter menu?
. . . . I kept getting aborted encoding error. I think 84000f4 or similar . . . .
Can you post a section - see below, of the burn error log (dbk.log) located in the following folder -
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\MAGIX\Videodeluxenn_premium
where username is the name you log on to the computer with and nn = the version of Movie Edit Pro you have
There may be many burn entries in the log file each burn session begins with the data and time on a single line up to and ncluding the burn complete message ot burn abort message, the section needed is of the burn that failed from the time/date line, up to and including the error message.
HTH
John EB