I just bought a new documentary DVD set of 5 DVDs but find I can not seek or go to specific times of play in the movies. This is a nuisance since often I backup a few minutes to replay a part of the DVD I want to rehear.
Details of things tried:
(1)Players tried with results,
(i) Nero showtime, just ignores movement of the seek time slider bar for this DVD set
(ii) Gom, WindowsMPlayer, MPClassic all will CRASH when I move the seek time slider,
(iii) for some strange reason VLC works with strange behavior that seektime bar is limited to within a chapter (can't seek to time outside a chapter)
(2) with all players I can move the chapter seeker bar, or use commands to go to particular chapters without problems. Only the time goto doesn't work.(so not related to player software)
(3) Other computers tried: 3 others, same results, can't go to particular time.(so not related to hardware or windows version)
(4)Other DVD movies tried: hundreds, they ALL work fine. With them all I can seek to any time without problems, on any computer, with any player program (so not related to hardware,software problems).
(5)Other DVDs from the set tried: all 5 in the set. All exhibit the same problem: can't seek to any specific time. (So it is not just one bad DVD but something common to the whole set. The problem is in the method of production/authoring of the set of DVDs)
(6) Diagnostics tried so far:used 3 different Protection scanners, none report any protection used in producing these DVDs.
(7) Copying tried: used DVD shrink, ISO buster to copy, no problems copying. Everything works fine in the copy except, again, on the copies I can not seek to any particular time without crashing the player.
(8) Breaking of DVD structure tried: copied only the VOB file over to a directory (leaving behind the IFO and BUP files). Everything works OK. Can seek to any time, with all players.(Of course with windowsMP I had to change the file extension from vob to mpg) SO again the problem is related to the method of production of the DVD set)Of course I could just copy over the VOB files and view everything that way , except that I also want to use the MENUs on the DVDs etc.
(9)I quickly ran pgcedit but all I could see (after telling me there were 0 buttons over video) was a command to "jump to title 1" where it merely says set gprm(0) = (mov)0. followed by exit.
So, anyone know what is happening here. Why can't these DVDs play so that I can seek to any time? What should I try next?
