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I have been trying to make DVD's of episodal television and have been having a lot of problems. I was trying to make a backup of the Simpsons season 1 using DVD Shrink (I have DVD X Copy, which has never worked, and I have lost four discs already), but didn't want to compress six episodes onto one disc. So I was going to put 5 on the first and 4 on the last two discs. The first disc worked fine. But when I tried to combine the 6th episiode with episodes from disc 2, I was told by Nero (I have the Pioneer 105 burner) that it couldn't. I think it had something to do with the fact that the files were named the same. SO I tried to change the names of some of the video and BUP files and that didn't work. So I combined some episodes from different discs and selected one of each of the TS.BUP and TS.IFO files, because it appeared that the burning wouldn't work without it.
The result was that my set top Panasonic DMR HS-2 burner could not play back the disc. My Malata 520 (an all region player) was able to play it back, but there were only two episodes (7 and 8) on the disc, both from disc 2 from the set. The single episode from disc 1 (episode 6) and another one from disc 2 (episode 9) were nowhere to be found.
How can I burn a DVD without following the exact structure of the layout of the original disc? Compressing six episodes onto one disc would not look good.
Also, and maybe this needs a seperate topic, how can I get DVD Shrink to properly convert a region? I made a copy of Ichi the Killer, Region 2 PAL, and the copy went fine. I changed the region to region 1. But it would not play back on my Panasonic set top player. The Malata played it fine. The same exact thing happened with the R2 of Intimacy. Is this a PAL thing? Is it because the Panasonic can't play back PAL and while DVD shrink can change the region, it can't convert PAL to NTSC?
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