I've been following the guides, as best I could, and trying to keep the coaster-ing to a minimum. I think I almost got it right -- the copy is playable on the PC, if I point PowerDVD to the drive and hit play; in the home DVD player, I get "no disc." I assume this is something like an "autoplay" problem. Here's what I did:
1. ripped the entire MonstersINC disc, file mode
2. using IFOEdit, stripped out most everything but the main movie, leaving in the IDs. Put the new files in separate folder.
3. ran Get VTS Sectors on each IFO in new folder
4. Burned contents of new folder to DVD-R , VIDEO_TS folder, using Nero in UDF mode.
I have a hunch I'm missing a file, or possibly had a setting wrong (duh). Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Have you tried Nero in DVD Video mode? If you must stick with Nero you may need to try another of it's settings to get a disc that plays in your machine. One of my machines won't play discs produced in UDF mode in Nero but will play them produced in DVD Video mode.
I wonder. I've successfully burned discs that play on this player. They were simple burns, DVD5-DVD-5, done with DVD Decrypter in ISO-Read/Write mode. I wonder what mode that burn in: DVD-Video, UDF, what?
I have found that the udf generally works in older players, 2 of mine are coming up to be 4 years old.
The udf/iso and dvd video option I have found to be more compatible with the newer standalones.
If you try the udf/iso option, I recommend the following:
In the iso tab change setting mode 1 to mode 2 and uncheck joliet.
Then click on the udf tab and make sure you have physical partitioning and v1.02 (default)
This should work ok or the dvd video option as malum stated (straight forward).
I can't help plugging recordnowmax though as EVERYTHING has been compatible so far.
I'll check out the trial version. Are you using standard or platinum? AND:
I'm still wondering what comes out when using DVD-Decrypter in ISO-Write mode: UDF, DVD-Video? Or am I confused about the whole business?
I finally got a successful copy (MonstersINC). I made about 5 changes since the above problem; not sure which one(s) did the trick; I'll have to backtrack and nail it down. The change list:
1. Started with the same files produced via dvd-decrypter and massaged with IFOedit that didn't work as in this thread above;
2. converted to an image file (imgtools)
3. de-installed roxio easycd, and cleaned out all Roxio registry entries
4. disabled a suspicious looking driver (Feurio)
5. clean booted, with all startup aps disabled, including Norton AV
6. burned image with Nero at 1x (tried burning with DVD-Decrypter, but for some reason ISO-Write isn't working, and reinstalling didn't fix it; but that's another problem)
7. used Maxell dvd-rw media
