Invalid VTS information

Wed, 2008-07-23 22:14 — Michael Costa

I'm having a bad run here - two masters rejected for the same client, at the same time, for different reasons.

One is the "VOBU length and number of sectors disagree" thing which is discussed at length a few posts back. Fine - I'm submitting on DLT instead of DVD-R for that one.

Today though, for the second time, the Eclipse report says, "The EclipseSuite tools were unable to locate the Video Title Set Information file (VTS_xx_0.IFO) for a Video Title Set. Then the usual Eclipse speil follows.

I'm now in the process of also redoing this one on DLT, but I'm concerned that's not going to change anything.

All this job is, is a simple rip of an unprotected disk and creation of (also unprotected) DDP masters from that. No tricks - no fuss.

One pertinent thing in the Eclipse description says:
"Possible Cause: This problem occurs when a DVD-Video image is re-authored and the Video Manager and Video Title Set files are shifted to a different section location from the original source image."

What's the deal here? I'm not adding or deleting anything - it's a straight copy except for perhaps the layer break which presumably could move. Is that it?

Thanks.

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Tue, 2008-07-29 00:57 — ianshepherd

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Hi Michael,

Please can you scan and post a copy of the Eclipse report ? Or, even better, ask the plant for the log file - you can email this to Larry and he can open it up to take a closer look.

Just a wild stab in the dark - they do realise it's a DDP image and know what to do with it, right ? We've had reports of plants who couldn't use DDP images for replication, through lack of knowledge rather than equipment.

Ian

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Sun, 2008-07-27 18:06 — Visitor

These are disks, not tapes

I verified the DDP files on the hard drive in that I compared them back to the build and they match.
The reason I smelled trouble here was that I did the exact same copy and re-DDP job on two different Macs - one PPC & one Intel. They both have different brands of burner in them. To have two rejections for EXACTLY the same reason seemed odd to me.

I know delivering on DVD-R has risks attached but to have two sets rejected with the same problem ... I don't know.

Just to query something: There's no reason why I can't copy an existing DVD, then move the layer break around to a new better place and then create fresh DDP masters from that, right? Nothing shoud get screwy from that?

You see, on my third attempt at this job I did exactly that. Having learned that DVD AE's indication of the layer break on this job would be just its suggestion and not a definitive illustration of where the previous layer break was, I decided to change that to a different place and go from there. I'm now hoping this third master passes the test. Still, even if successful, this gives me no comfort in avoiding this problem in the future.

Thanks for the help guys.