Has anyone experienced this dilemma? I was wondering if there is anything I can do to make DVD Shrink burned files playable in pickier players such as Sony DVP 7700, perhaps there is some switches I can turned off or altered using ifoedit afterward?
This is a movie you have burned, perhaps it is the media you used. I do not have a problem with my Sony standalone or any of my others unless it has been done on bad media. What are you using, and what program did you use to burn? What is the make and model of your burner and is the firmware on it up to date? Did you burn at 4x, as this will cause less errors in the disk than higher rate of speed.
Quote: burned files playable in pickier players such as Sony DVP 7700
What issues are you having on that sony dvp-7700 player?
Are they freezing/pixellating/skipping- or is the No Disc Inserted error?
Try viewing one of those problematic backups on your pc using the drive that burned it.Also try comfirming those backups in some other stand alones,the more the better.
I've got a sony dvp-ns325 and it played abolutely everything from all 5 of my pc burners and stand alone tv recorder whereas some other stand alones had a harder time with them. When the freezing issues started,a lens cleaning disc helped out some,but it had problems playing an entire DVD-9 backup so I replaced it.
Also answer arniebear's questions. It could be a simple media change or format change.
Ok, here is the situation. I use the Sony DVP-7700 which is the top of the line Sony DVD standalone player.
The blank DVD brands I use include: RiData, FujiFilm, and Kodak.
My system is AMD Athlon 64 bit 3000+ with a plextor DVD burner, and I always burned my final DVD *.VOB files using Nero 6.6, so far so good...
Now when I "copy" my original DVD to my hard drive using either: DVD Decryptor, DVD rebuilder, Alcohol 120%, or simply file copy, then from the hard drive to a blank DVD using Nero 6.6, my resulting (copied) DVDs play perfectly in my Sony DVP 7700 standalone player.
However ...
If I used DVD Shrink to transfer the original DVD files to my hard drive (set all the options correctly, region free etc), then burn those files from the hard drive back to a blank DVD, it won't play in my Sony standalone player. The player will either say no disc or return a C:13 error. The "copied" DVD will play in my PC though.
I am not alone in this as 3 of my colleagues also have high end Sony DVD players and they can't used DVD Shrink either. They have the same problem.
I like DVD Shrink because it is fast and can decrypt most files, but I can't seem to make it work.
Have you tried using Nero Recode, it is faster than Shrink and is by the same developer only updated. You will still have to either rip to your hard drive using Decrypter or run AnyDVD in the background.
