Pioneer DVD-RW Issue

[juan clemente]

An odd problem...

I make a DVD-r disk, either a rip or one I author, and if I burn it to a Pioneer DVD-RW it plays fine in my Toshiba standalone, but it will not play in software DVD.

Power dvd gives an error of "Copy protection key exchange failure - Key not present." Other software DVD players just hang.

If I burn the same VIDEO_TS to a Verbatim DVD-RW it works fine in both software and hardware players.

It does not matter on what combination of author/burning software (DVDitPE/ Maestro - Prassi/Nero) I use I get the same results.

I have done a full erase on the Pioneer disk to no avail.

The Pioneer disk always comes back with the error but the Verbatim does not.

Any thoughts?

JC

[bartman]

Does your Pioneer disk have CPRM ??? This may be the cause (it is a content protection thingy)...

[juan clemente]

CPRM...Aparrently it does, according to the jewel case liner...

Ok...will try to track down what CPRM is and if there is something I can do about turning off this "feature". I'm just glad my hardware players seem to ignore it

thank-you

JC

[Greg12]

ANd ppl say Sony's have copy protection
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[PhilipL]

Withdrawn

[kbrooks]

when you author a dvd often the "key" is not added and the software players interpret it as a keyless disk and therefore refuse to play it.

anyone know how to add a key to a disk?