works in dvd-rom, but not stand alone player?!?

[Paul Duke]

Ok, I recently recieved a home made dvdr from a friend that will play in my dvd-rom with no problems, but my stand alone player will not read it at all. It reads everything else just fine and it's not a problem with the media either. This is also not a copy of anything, it's just made from some captured vhs tapes and then produced with some menus and such.
I've ripped this disc to my HD and I've burned it everyway I can think of, but I get the same results every time. I don't get it. Is there something that I need to edit within the disc itself to make it work properly?

Thanks in advance!
Paul

[Hardcoreruss]

How are you sure that it is not the media. If I was to guess I would blame the media or the fact that your player can not play the discs.

What is the conversion method you used ?.

[Paul Duke]

It's definately not the media as it's the very same media that has worked in both of my stand alone players with never any problem in the past. (fujifilm) As for conversion, there hasn't really been any. I've tried ripping the entire disc and then burning it with Nero in eveyway imaginable and I've tried simply copying the folders to my HD and then burning it as a data disc with Prassi which has also always worked in the past.

[Hardcoreruss]

If you are burning it as a data disc this will not work it has to be dvd video. Try running it through dvd shrink and then burning a fresh copy that way. Or use dvd decrypter in iso mode to copy it and then burn it on to a new disc using iso write.

Or have you tried these methods already ?

Russ

[neilpercy]

@Paul Duke


I seem to have similar problem here:-

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=783731#783731

(my post is towards the end)

My video material is generated from my editing software, and once burn't onto DVD-R, won't play in my machine, but will play in a friend's Sony.

Yet a backup of a commercial movie using the same media works just fine?

Seems to me that the problem is peculiar to 'self-generated' (for want of a better word) video files, as opposed to backups of commercially mastered discs.

For whatever reason this self-generated stuff causes my player to say "no disc".


?????

[Paul Duke]

It finally dawned on me yesterday that I had seen my problem once before, so I tried a little something. When I place this odd disc in my standalone, it just sits there, but the read-out on the machine says "disc menu". If I hit STOP and then hit PLAY again, it works just fine. There's something screwy about the autostart function. I'd swear I read something long ago about editing the IFO files to cure this, but I can't remember all the details.

[Paul Duke]

Burning as a 'data disc' DOES work. I've done it countless times with no problems at all. The prg used is Prassi Primo v2.0 As it happens, I've burned this particular disc in both methods, data and as 'dvd video'. Same results every time.

[dcsos]

Seems to me that the problem is peculiar to 'self-generated' (for want of a better word) video files, as opposed to backups of commercially mastered discs.

For whatever reason this self-generated stuff causes my player to say "no disc".

OVER HERE WE'VE SEEN JUST THE REVERSE

That is backing up Commercial stuff often doesn't play in 1 out of 10 settops it encounters

while
everything we author from scratch plays in the SETTOPS nowadays

AS the poster explained..HE NEVER REALLY Had a problem here
He just didn't hit PLAY on the REMOTE in this CASE

but if you do have this problem
IFOedit
will fix it for you..JUST OPEN THE IFO's and re-save them after region freeing them in this program....

[Paul Duke]

My only problem with this home made disc is that the 'autostart' won't work. It _should_ play automatically when placed in the stand alone. However, the guy that sent it to me can't get it to play at all in his stand alone, only on his computers. Again, it's not a media problem. The disc is completely 'region free' also. I have tried the methods below, but still no dice....


I tried the Get VTS Sectors trick first, but ended up with the same results, so I tried the method described below to attempt to fix this problem, but so far, no luck....


1) Go to IFOEdit and edit the VTS_01_0.IFO.
2) In the top window, double-click on VTS_PGCITI
3) It will expand a sub-folder (VTS_PGC_1), click on it.
4) Go to the bottom window, down to where it says "Program_1: Entry cell number" and change it to 1 instead of 8.
5) Save it.

Well, it already said 1, so I changed it to 2 just for the heck of it. Same results.

[neilpercy]

well, not the same as paul dukes problem, but changing to the latest version of Nero (6.3.0.3) solved my problem.

here https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=205459 for your info.

As I understand it, latest Nero uses older UDF 1.02 standard, which is more compatable with older players.


cheers,


Neil