Burning after Rebuilding

[HatchetMan]

So I rebuilt Amadues 180 min. director's cut with DVD-RB 0.79 w/ CCE Basic leaving off non English language/subs and stealing 25% from extras. I first ripped to hard drive with DVD Decrypter in file mode. This was disc one, movie only disc, and it turns out the extras only referred to the FBI warnings. Two hours later, it was done, opened it up in DVD Shrink and it looked good, everything was there and previewed fine.

My attempt was to create iso with Shrink (No Compression) to burn with Decrypter. Operation Completed Successfully. I stuck it in all my players and the only thing to play was the FBI warnings. Then it stopped. Push play again and it played the warnings. Pressed title button on remote, nothing. Pressed menu button on remote and played warnings again and stopped again.

Is it obvious to you guys that I committed a no-no or do you have no clue what I am talking about? By the way, this was my first attempt at DVD-RB. I figured a 3hr movie was a good start. Thanks in advance.

[deadpac]

Why did you use Dvd Shrink of all tools to build an iso file? Why not use Imgtool Classic.

This is not a knock on you HatchetMan but damn people need to stop thinking of DVD Shrink as a one stop dvd conversion shop; it does one thing well and only to a certain extent and that is transcoding, anything *extra* that it can do, can be done with other tools that are designed specifically for those extra tasks. ie imgtool classic and it's specific purpose of creating dvd isos.

[HatchetMan]

Looked into imgtool, doesn't sound like it does anything at all that shrink does not. I can try it, if it'll play the movie, not just the warnings.

[guns1inger]

I doubt this is Shrink's fault, as I have done the same and never had an issue. Installing imgtools is superfluous if Shrink does the job (and it does). Why clutter up the disk more than necessary ?

[winifreid]

Try mounting the image with daemon tools and see if it will play.

[winifreid]

Also 2 hours for a 3 hour movie with RB seems a little fast. Maybe it wasn't encoding what you wanted.

[HatchetMan]

[UPDATE]
Well, I opened it again in Shrink, everything played fine again, so for kicks I went into reauthor mode and took the movie only, leaving off the menu and warnings, then same steps, created iso and burned with Decrypter. Played fine and looked great on all my players.

I'm not sure what went wrong, since this was my first time using DVD-RB afterall. So, over the weekend I experimented on 8 dual layer episodic discs, a full 8+ gigs each.

Upgraded from DD-RB 0.79 to 0.80. Then started on my first disc, Black Adder I (yes I own the 5 disc collector's set). Kept all audio and special features. Took 3 hours. Then tried out ImgTool Classic to burn it. It worked, played back flawlessly too! On to disc 2, this time burning with the help of ImgTool Burn, again no problems at all playing it back.

6 discs left. Upgraded to DVD-RB 0.81. Set up batch processing in one click mode for the remaining titles, 17 hours later it had completed. Burned them all with ImgTool Burn (which uses Nero by the way), 100% success.

I couldn't be happier with DVD-RB (w/ CCE Basic 2.70 and ImgTool's). I'll be using it a whole lot more often now

[jbenj01]

I've encountered your original problem and it's not DVD-RB. The original ripped DVD files have a 'glitch' in the DVD structure. I run IFOedit, Get VTS Sectors on the IFO's to correct.. and DVD-RB has always worked after that.

[Gurm]

Of course, you're all using "tools" to make ISO files. Why not just right-click, copy to dvd? Of course you need to have bought Copy2DVD first. LOL. Sorry, couldn't resist.