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"Aristocrats" / NEC 3540/3550 "drive is empty" error
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DiggThis
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25. January 2006 @ 12:33 |
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Hi,
When I pop in "The Aristocrats", I can play the movie with WinDVD, yet when I try to "open" the DVD under "My Computer" or with Decrypter / Shrink, they all say there is no disc in the damn drive.
Nero Info Tool reports correct info on the disc (7.87Gig, blah blah blah) so the media is OK & the drive(s) can read the disc. Disc also plays fine is standalone players.
My rig: WinXP SP2, NEC 3540A & 3550A drives (same problem w/ either drive)
So why is it that Nero & WinDVD can see/open the disc, but Shrink / Decrypter / Windows Explorer don't?
If this is some kind of ham-fisted secuity / protection scheme, no wonder people hate the **AA syndicates.
Oh - one other piece of info -- my Win2K laptop has an NEC 6650A burner, and when I put in the disc, it immediately shows up in My Computer as "The Aristocrats", and the familiar AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders are there.
Any ideas?
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easytim
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25. January 2006 @ 15:55 |
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You need to run DVD fab first, I have the 3550A drive also.
1st, used DVDFabDecrypter- version 2.9.6.8 - ripped to hard drive
2nd, then used DVDShrink - shrunk it so it would fit on a regular sized DVD - but with shrink it will auto burn w/ Nero, so step #3 will now be done for you automatically.
3rd, then used Nero to burn - use the burn engine of your choice - Shrink will auto burn w/ Nero or if you use CloneDVD2 to burn the disk, you still need to shrink it first so it will fit on one disk.
1,2,3,--- worked 100%, EVERYTHING
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 25. January 2006 @ 15:56
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DiggThis
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25. January 2006 @ 19:13 |
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Hey easytim -
Thanks for the detailed help... I've been waiting for an excuse to try DVD Fab -- now that time has come, huh? Really appreciate the help.
Do you know what is going on though -- is it the Aristocrats DVD (Arccos, Rip-Lard, etc..), the NEC drive, or something else? I've actually never run into this before.
Anyway thanks again for replying, your help is much appreciated!
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26. January 2006 @ 09:11 |
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Just wanted to post a follow-up in case this helps anyone else...
It really was an issue with Windoze (everyone repeat after me: "Windows sucks").... maybe we could chalk it up also as pilot error, lemme explain...
I tried DVD Fab, but it too saw nothing in the drive after the disc was inserted. I thought, "?!?!?!?". Then I tried many of my DVDs (mind you, these are original DVDs, not DVD-Rs), and none of them showed up in Decrypter. So I thought, "what the hell has changed?!?!?"
After the recent Sony Rootkit / spyware / DRM fiasco, I disabled autorun in the registry.... amazingly enough, this was enough to give Windows blue balls when it comes to recognizing what type of disc is inserted.
In the registry, I re-enabled autorun, and then for the drive itself I right clicked on it (from My Computer), selected Properties, selected Autoplay, selected the "DVD Movie" entry from the pulldown, and told it to prompt me each time (then each time I tell it to f- off)
That did it, now Decrypter / Shrink / etc. see the contents of the DVD again.
Not sure what the difference is between autorun & autoplay, but I'm just recounting what I did in case it helps someone.
<EDIT>
Just now I did a search, this is a good/useful thread:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/252063
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 26. January 2006 @ 09:16
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