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Mr_Pink

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1. February 2006 @ 14:22

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So this is a first time occurrence for me.

I backed up Ed Wood and because I was looking at 50% compression, I decided to use my seldom used Verbatim DL discs. For whatever reason, however, after the process was done, and I stuck it in the DVD player, it does not get read.

I go back to the desktop that it was burned on, and just like the stand alone DVD player, it cannot play. I use WinDVD7 to watch DVD's on my desktop. With this disc, however, it freezes the program. So fine, it's either blank, unfinished, or not finalized etc., etc.

I go back to Shrink/Decryptor, and the movie is previewed, analyzed, ripped fine. There are no hiccups and I can view the entire movie through these methods.

Any explanations/ideas?

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Jallan

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1. February 2006 @ 15:18

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God, i hate backing up older movies on high bitrate DVDs.. It's not like the picture on a 1:1 is going to be HD in the first place..

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binkie7

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1. February 2006 @ 18:18

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@Mr_Pink
3 suggestions to try if you haven't:
Make sure your firmware is up to date on your drive.
Keep the burn speed at 2.4x or lower
Rip in iso with decrypter and burn the .mds file w/ decrypter.

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Mr_Pink

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1. February 2006 @ 19:01

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@ binkie

Thanks for the helpful suggestions, unlike the first post. Now that I think about it, the previous DL rips I have were done with Decryptor and NOT through Shrink. All those worked fine. Hmmm... Anyway, yeah, my firmware is up to date, and I don't fudge around when it comes to DL discs (since they cost as much as they do), so I always keep the burn speed low.

But to clarify, is there anything I can do with the current disc to make it playable? I mean, why would it be playable through Shrink or Decryptor and nowhere else? Did I just lose a DL disc :(

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binkie7

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1. February 2006 @ 19:18

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If you burner supports booktyping - booktying the disc will make them more compatible. But for the current disc in question - nothing really unless it will play in some other player. Since dl media is newer - players seem to have problems with it. So booktyping will help this. It's also the reason I've only done many a handful - costly coasters!!

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Mr_Pink

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2. February 2006 @ 04:41

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Yeah, I have it set to DVD-Rom. I try to have all the bases covered to avoid any coasters. I think since the time I started this (back in Oct '04) I've made about five coasters.

Well that sucks!

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