Reauthroring Band of Brothers

I had one final question regarding multi-pgc in Maestro. I was reading thread as it seems to be a key piece in reauthoring multi-pgc DVDs. I'm reauthroring Band of Brothers which has two episodes per disc. Curiously the second episode it first and the first episode last. If I'm interpreting the mentioned thread correctly, since it has 2 PGCs I will have one big one with all the chapters and two others PGCs. One for PGC1 which contains the second half of chapters corresponding to episode 1 and PCG2 which has the first half corresponsing to episode 2. When I compile the project I will only have the 2PGCs for the 2 episodes; am I on the right track here?

Hi Gradlock Ive recently done the Band of Brothers PAL series as my first rips with the multi PGC maestro method - i followed the guide and it worked a treat :) due to doing other disks since i cant fully remember - i think there are 3 PGCs on each disk - one seems to be 12 secs what i did: -backup disk with smart rippper -used ifoupdate to save the CCE & multiPGC maestro chapter files -used dvd2avi on the main vobstream to make one long video for both episodes on the disk -used avisynth script with CCE (also put cce chapter points in saved ECL file from ifoupdate created CCE film (NOT the film one because its a PAL disk)) -reencoded to fit on DVD5 disk -import video and audio into in maestro -import chapter list from ifoedit created file -create required number of playlists as per ifoedit created readme and assign chapter points to correct playlists (i think there are 3 playlists per disk) -compile title in maestro -copy new vts_01_1 - vts_01_n files into a new directory along with backup files as per guide and use the MAESTRO MULTI PGC mode in ifouopdate to correct IFO information If your still struggling after with it ask and ill check again what i did. This method worked great for Band of Brothers but the last couple of disks i got dont work with it due to the way the audio is split across PGC's. For these I've started using Scenarist instead I got an excellent word doc from somone on the forum about this maestro method which i followed if it'll help? Eraser

The NTSC version has two pgc's per disc. One for each episode. Created two playlists. One the first disc of five, the episodes are reversed. I just put episode 2 chapters in first play list and episode 1 in the second. I think there is one more where the episodes are reversed. Used most of Eraser method. Wound up with 2 pgc's when done.

Fredrick... Did this method work for you? I followed the guide, created 2 PGC's (NTSC version), reauthored in Maestro, reassembled with IFOUpdate. The disc plays in every software player I have, but gives disk errors in 4 different standalones that all usually play anything.... What is the way to find out what is wrong with my structure? Burned with Prassi, it didn't find any errors. Burned a second time with ImgTool, no workie. I did a "Get VTS Sectors" a second time to make sure they were updated, I'm bummed to not be able to make this work....

@ Eraser .... I was planing on having a go at BB with Pal R2 ...which region are you at ??....and have you been able to solve the problems with that split auio...if you do could you please post a detailed explanation of how you have done it!!! PS: Isn't that word document the guide that Jdobss wrote CHECK THIS OUT .......if its not could you please let me kbow ..i would like to take a look at that word file???

Scoobydeux I pointed first play to pgc 2. The copy works fine.

OK, I did not point the first play to anything.... I'll try that, re-author, re IFOUpdate, reburn, and see if that fixes it. Nope. Still no love. Can't figure it out... The settops don't like something about it, maybe I'll try same procedure on disk 2.... Thanks.

@caprioles9000 Hi.. The link u sent is the correct document...i used the region 2 copy... i had audio problems with disk4 so i had to redo it i sent u a p.m. with my icq number if u need any help.. i can post what i did here but i got most of the information from the guides on this excellent site? Eraser

OK, my problem was not with the Maestro/IFOUpdate method, but rather with a corrupt VIDEO_TS.IFO file. I used the method, and it worked great for disks 1-5. I am now on disk 6, 6 titles, 4 titles are multi-pgc, some are interlaced, some have up to 14 PGC's. I used the maestro method and reauthored titles 1-5, used the original from title 6. I rebuilt it all, and it works in WinDVD, but not on the standalone. I probably corrupted the IFO somewhere along the line, so I'll try recreating the IFO's and rewriting the disks again and see what happens. Has anyone else used the Maestro / IFOUpdate method on disk 6 of Band of Brothers yet? Any special tricks? I'll probably start a new thread with this one.... Scoobydeux

Disc 6 has a documentary shot in High Definition(1080i i think)that uses some of the same footage that were used on the episodes on discs 1-5 but converted to film on those.Has anyone been able to re-encode this documentary with CCE?I took a small part and tried every conceavable setting but there seem to be interlacing problems.