[Dvdrtools-users] mplex problem

[Bob Stia]

Hello everyone,

Not sure if this is the right place to pose this question but I figure the 
people here sure know a lot more than I do.

Some background:
Recently upgraded to SuSE 10.0 from 9.2. Running an AMD 64 bit system. In 9.2 
I had no problems ripping and copying DVDs using vobcopy, transcode etc. from 
the CLI. Really don't know if that has anything to do with the problem. 
Anyway, I can still build my vob's separate my audio and video, and shrink my 
video. Problem comes when I try to rebuild the files to an mpeg with mplex 
using the command; "mplex -f 8 -o "movie%d.mpg" shrink.m2v movie.ac3" The 
command errors out with the following. Here are the last lines:
  
linux:/workspace # mplex -f 8 -o "movie%d.mpg" shrink.m2v movie.ac3
   INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.8.0 (2.2.4 $Date: 2005/08/28 17:50:54 $)
   INFO: [mplex] File shrink.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
   INFO: [mplex] File movie.ac3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
   INFO: [mplex] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard 
options!
   INFO: [mplex] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
   INFO: [mplex] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
   INFO: [mplex] Multiplexing video program stream!
   INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (shrink.m2v)
   INFO: [mplex] VIDEO STREAM: e0
   INFO: [mplex] Frame width     : 720
   INFO: [mplex] Frame height    : 480
   INFO: [mplex] Aspect ratio    : 16:9 display
   INFO: [mplex] Picture rate    : 29.970 frames/sec
   INFO: [mplex] Bit rate        : 9801600 bits/sec
   INFO: [mplex] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
   INFO: [mplex] CSPF            : 0
   INFO: [mplex] Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (movie.ac3)
   INFO: [mplex] AC3 frame size = 1792
   INFO: [mplex] AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
   INFO: [mplex] Bit rate       :    57344 bytes/sec (448 kbit/sec)
   INFO: [mplex] Frequency      :     48000 Hz
   INFO: [mplex] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
   INFO: [mplex] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate    : 10471896
   INFO: [mplex] target data-rate specified               : 10080000
++ WARN: [mplex] Target data rate lower than computed requirement!
++ WARN: [mplex] N.b. a 20% or so discrepancy in variable bit-rate
++ WARN: [mplex] streams is common and harmless provided no time-outs will 
occur
   INFO: [mplex] Run-in Sectors = 89 Video delay = 13019 Audio delay = 16022
   INFO: [mplex] New sequence commences...
   INFO: [mplex] Video e0: buf=      0 frame=000000 sector=00000000
   INFO: [mplex] Audio bd: buf=      0 frame=000000 sector=00000000
**ERROR: [mplex] Can't find next AC3 frame: @ 349129984 we have 04c3 - broken 
bit-stream?
linux:/workspace #                                    


On a different try, there was a simple failed message.

   INFO: [mplex] Audio bd: buf=  16384 frame=000000 sector=00000000
**ERROR: [mplex] Failed write: movie1.mpg
linux:/workspace #

I have google-d, howto-ed man-ed and faq-ed for hours on end without finding 
the answer. The most helpful was LinuxQuestions but even there, although the 
problem was brought up, there were no answers.

Really hope that someone here has the answer.

Bob S.