This may be a long message but it is written simply for I am rather noob and will make sense to anyone who can help.
I have had my ups and downs in DVD copying in the past month that I have been doing it. The biggest positive is that my most recently bought dvd player seems to play all dvds I burn, DVD+R/DVD-R of all brands. However, it is this player and my computers that are the only ones that seem to play the dvds i copy. I have put a great amount of effort and time into trying to fix my DVD problem but nothing has seemed to work.
See, it is great that the dvds work on my one dvd player but i have several others that just don't play my copied dvds.
My process of backing up dvds is this:
1. DVD Shrink: Using "Back-up" to create the Video and Audio_TS folders.
2. Folder2Iso: To select the Video and Audio folders and merge them into one Giant ISO file.
3. DVD Decrypter: To burn the ISO file onto my dvds.
now i believe the process in which i copy my dvds should be a flawless method, but it has not proven so.
All my copied dvds do indeed play on my newest Toshiba DVD player but on not much more than that. I have been testing my failed copies on my older (2000-ish for rough age guess) Panasonic DVD player. No luck there. Neither on my Playstation 2. They both say "this type of disc cannot be played" or some variation of that. I have tested it on friends' dvd players (Toshibas different than my successful one fyi) and found no luck either.
The types of discs I have tried:
1. A shitty brand "computer essentials" 8x DVD-R
2. Memorex 8x DVD-R
3. Verbatim 16x DVD+R
4. Maxell 8x DVD+R
Once again, each one of these brands I have tested on all dvd players I have available. They all work perfectly on my Newest Toshiba but not on any other dvd player I have tested.
HERE IS THE CATCH!!! You cannot simply say the players I have tested do not support these certain types of discs. The dvd backups I have made do not work on my Panasonic and the others BUT!!! I have made my own dvd creations with Intervideo WinDVD creator and they do play on my Panasonic, PS2, and all the others tested. For these original creations of my own, I burned them on the shitty "Computer essentials" brand DVD-R AND THEY DO WORK!
For more confusion, I opened up the manual for my Panasonic (the one that fails to play my backups) dvd player and under the list of discs that cannot be played it lists DVD-R. DVD-R was the dvd type i burnt these WinDVD creations but it works on my Panasonic?!?! Why? And why does it not work on any of my discs when i make backups of movies?
This has been bothering me for weeks and I really need assistance. I cannot see where in my process I go wrong in making these backups.
Is it the dvd media I have bought to burn on that fails to play on the majority of dvd players? Or is it somewhere in my burning process where it fails?
If I manage to burn my own home videos on dvd and they play on this majority of dvd players, why do my DVD backups fail?
I appreciate any assistance and help I can get with this problem. If you have time and any idea at all to try fix this, please share.
My friends, (and myself to a much less extent), have had good luck using DVD Decrypter to get DVD on HDD, using Shrink to play with it, and then Nero to burn. With good media & drive, you should have at least a 95+% burn & playability stats on most DVD players.
All these have to do with a 'compatibility' issue between the pc, the video softwares, the burner, the media, and the standalone dvd players. Since media is the easiest thing to change among the factors, people often refer this to 'media' problem. But as you've noticed, media that won't play here might be able to play elsewhere, and vice-versa. So you really have to be a bit more patient and experiment more in order to get copies that would play anywhere (or mostly anywhere).
Since you've tried several media, my suggestion would be try alternative patterns of burning next, e.g.:
Shrink + Nero
Decrypter only
Decrypter + Nero
My experience has been that the burn results of Decrypter and Nero are more stable.
thank you, especially @ scf_au. i'll try what you reccommended. however, i have a similar question. is there a way to burn with decrypter with the Video_TS and Audio_TS folders alone? without converting to ISO file?
while waiting for a reply on this post, i burnt a dvd using WinDVD Creator by selecting the video and audio folders rather than the ISO file. to my amazement, it works on my playstation and other dvd players. i would stop here but the windvd burning is not the greatest quality. is there a way to burn these folders alone with decrpyter? or how about Nero? because i have not used Nero once.
i use Taiyo Yuden media burning at 4X using CloneDVD 2 with AnyDVD and my backups play on EVERY dvd player i throw them at ,ps2 also. heres some links and gudies that may help you out
