DVD backup looping instead of playing movie.

[sdcruiser2001]

Well first of all, I am a newbie! I've only been at this 2 days now and I've created a few coasters!!! I found that memorex dvd-r will not work in my panasonic rv-62 quickly. TDK does. This forum saved me a few $$ there....thanks to all.

Now the problem: I've been able to back-up 2 movies using Shrink 3.1 and burnatonce. Very nice tools and you should all be proud how quickly a newbie can do this. My 3rd movie back-up has produced enough "coaster" for the entire block. I've tried many options and the result is always the same in my dvd player and playing on the pc using powerdvd. The menu displays, and when you select play, the fbi warnings play and then a studio opinion disclaimer displays in english only (the original did english and then french) then proceeds to play this disclaimer over and over. The movie never starts. On the pc I select root menu to get the movie to play perfectly so the movie is ripped correctly it seems. I saw that someone else claimed that this might be a new form of copy protection and he was able to get the play button to play the movie without all this other stuff. But the solution to that was way over a newbie's head and so I'm asking: Is this going to happen with a lot of the new DVD's and since DVDShrink 3.1 is the last version, is there no easy solution to this yet? Thanks very much for whatever help you can give me on this.

[stiltman]

had this same problem on 2 DVDs myself....Never found the cure. I was able to play the DVD though. Instead of selecting play movie from the menu, select scene selector and play from the first chapter, which is the begining of the movie. I had this happen with Hollywood Homicide and Charlies Angels. I used Shrink 3.5b

[sdcruiser2001]

Thanks I'll try that. I decided to try one more time with Shrink and just took the movie and that worked too. Of course no menus or any extras but at least it worked. It must be something new they're putting on disks because the only other reference to something like that I found here happened exactly like this to someone in mid Dec 2003. I just hope it's not going to be a common thing, but then again I'm sure some smart person here will figure out a way around it if it becomes more common. Thanks again.