Great site! This is my first post. I've been lurking here for a year or so, and I've always been able to get my answers from someone else's questions. This time, though, I may have something new.
I make backups of my kid's DVDs to take in our van for road trips (so the originals don't get ruined). Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't; and I just figured something out - backups made with DVD Shrink/DVD Decrypter won't play in my van, but if I use DVDFabDecrypter and VobBlanker and then DVDShrink/DVD Decrypter then they work fine.
Everything else is the same: same blanks, same burner (and burn settings), even the same movie. The movies that won't play in my van will play in every other DVD player I own. Does this make sense to anyone here? What do DVDFabDecrypter and VobBlanker do differently?
Or is there another connection that I'm just not seeing?
What kind of dvd player (name/model, etc.) is it (the one in your van)? I'm guessing those players in van/cars now-a-days are more sensitive than those stand alone home dvd players. I may be wrong, but it's just a guess only. So if there is/are any left over corrupted/bogus cells in your backups, then it's having a much difficult time to read/play.
However, with VobBlanker to process and clean out the VIDEO_TS.IFO file, it does an outstanding job filtering any left over craps, corrupted or strutural cells flawlessly. That being said, once it's done processed, the new VIDEO_TS or movie is free of corrupted cells/vts/pgcs, so it should be able to play in all functional dvd players.
You've made a very good choice by "processing" your VIDEO_TS.IFO (or the movie) through VobBlanker. This is a "must" step for all Sony/Disney's movies. It will get you out of misery regardless of what movies you're going to backup in the future.
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