Answer on burning DVD-9's to play on standalone players.

[psycho1060]

This is just a small guide to help the people that have been having problems with burning DVD-9 movies to DVD-5 and cannot play on their standalone DVD Players. (make sure your player supports DVD-R's).

Here is a little guide and it works perfectly in my JVC player. Note that this will burn only the MOVIE itself and will not include extras. For this opt to use a guide about DVD X COPY PLATINUM but I do not know if this will then work on a standalone player. Anyways.

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You will need to download these three softwares.


1. DVD Decrypter (this burns the entire DVD's content onto your HD).
2. DVD2One (compresses the DVD files to fit onto a single DVD-R).
3. Nero (im using 5.5.9.0 but this will be to eventually burn the files onto the DVD-R).


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Place the DVD into the drive and open DVD Decrypter, make sure 'main movie files' is selected. Now choose a destination on your hard drive and burn these files. It should take around 15 minutes depending on your drive speed. They should include around a few .IFO and .VOB files which are the actual movie. These files will be way too large for a 4.38GB disc so we will now need to compress it to fit.

Now open another folder on your HD, i.e. BATMANMOVIE_BURN. Within this folder make a (VIDEO_TS) folder and a (AUDIO_TS) folder. All in CAPS, and will make sure that the AUDIO_TS will always remain Empty.

Now start DVD2One program, choose the main movie, angles and then the subtitles wanted. Choose the ''SOURCE'' as the DVD Decrypter folder with the original (huge) files and now the ''DESTINATION'' will be the new VIDEO_TS folder. This should take around 20 minutes.

You will have the new ''compressed'' movie that will fit onto a DVD-R. Now open Nero to BURN. Make sure you choose ''DVD-ROM (UDF)'' if you want to be able to play these within a standalone DVD player. Now within Nero drag the two files, the VIDEO_TS (with all the new compressed files) and a AUDIO_TS (which shud be empty). Check that its on the no multisession and UDF 1.02 options. Leave it as NEW and dont change the title.

Now burn and your Done : o )

Now place onto your DVD player and it should work without any problems.

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[Bodene]

1) When using DVD Decrypter, what mode are u supposed you use? There are 3 modes....IFO, FILE, and ISO. You don't specify which one or how to set up the one yer sposed to use.

2) What about the tree....how do u choose what to rip?

3) In DVD2One....how does one determine what size the output files should be?

4) You say you should create a folder with subfolders named VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. Why do this? Is it necessary?

5) Why are you instructing to burn in DVD-ROM (UDF) mode? Is this the most reliable mode to burn a DVD movie in?

6) Why are you putting up a guide that includes the use of outdated software? The reader may use Nero v6 or RecordNowDX.

Just curious.

[MackemX]

I noticed that the guide ain't the best around but I think it's great that psycho1060 has decided to share his method even if he hasn't explained it down to the last detail

@Bodene, to satisfy your curiosity

1. Filemode with the settings to select Main movie VOB's and IFO's
2. DVDDecrpyter will does anyway with the above settings
3. probably the size of your DVD blank I would guess
4. people may have more than one DVD on the PC
5. the most reliable is one that works in the standalone after
6. why fix it if it ain't broke?

[Bodene]

Thanks for your answers, but my questions were more rhetorical than anything. Hopefully he'll take them into consideration when updating his guide. I viewed it from the position of a newbie trying to follow it. It leaves out alot that an inexperienced reader would need to know.

[MackemX]

I would have guessed you knew the answers judging by your previous posts but you could spend all day asking rhetorical questions about methods/guides on forums I suppose

I have written many a method/guide and I would not expect a complete newbie to understand it all as sometimes even I don't

at least some of the gaps have been filled anyway