Unplayable DVD - except on one player (?)

[tloewenberg]

I apologize if this isn't the forum for this. Please direct me if so. I have a DVD "Trinity and Beyond - The Atom Bomb Movie." The main title won't play on any of our computers or my BD player (Pana 30D), or DVD recorder (JVC). After the intro screens playout, I select the feature from the menu and the screen fills with artifacts and garbled audio. However, it plays like a champ on an older Pana DVD RV20 that's connected to a TV in our home office. I've cleaned it. It appears fine; no obvious surface blemishes or scratches, etc. The firmware on all the players are up to date. Can anyone offer some explanation? Thanks.

[jman98]

Welcome to the forums. Whether this is the right forum or not depends on some information you have failed to provide us.

Did you make this DVD yourself? Did someone else make it? Or did you buy it in a store? If it's not make by you or a friend but it's a commercial DVD, then this isn't really the right place for it, but that's secondary to getting you some help.

If it's a commercial DVD, it could just be a bad pressing. If you or a friend made it, then we'd need even more information. What brand of disc is it burned to, what was used to make it and so on.

[tloewenberg]

It's a commercial DVD purchased probably 6 or 7 years ago. I just find it strange that it plays fine on the older Pana player but jumbles up on anything else?

[MysticE]

Does it work in your computer?

[tloewenberg]

Nope. I have 2 Dell laptops and a long in the tooth desktop. Both the desktop and one of the laptops have DVD ROM; the other has a DVD read/write. All three exhibit the same characteristics as all the DVD players except the older Panasonic. I neglected to mention that my first DVD player was an Onkyo. Before I retired that player to my mother's TV, it could also play it successfully.

[MysticE]

So are you saying it plays somewhat? Well seeing as it's an old DVD try ripping it with DVD Decrypter and see what happens. Maybe as it pounds away (I think default re-tries are 20) it might salvage the marginal parts of the disc.

[tloewenberg]

I tried DVD Decrypter. It rolled through like a hot knife cutting butter. When I attempted to watch it off my hard drive, I got the same symptoms as the DVD players. Also tried ripping it from my Plextor external drive with the same results. Both times, DVD Decryter reported it as non-copy protected. The part that's really got me going is that it plays on the two oldest players I have but the main title is jumbled garbage on every player purchased within the last two years and the computers? Wouldn't you think a disk playable on an old DVD player would be fine on a newer player? I guess this is my quest?

[LCSHG]

Thowenberg

Are the player’s also a recorder OR is there another recording unit in the line
Some disks in their CP will detect a recorder in the system [Especially another in the line]
If so they will play right up to the Main Feature and not it

This mainly occurs with a player or player/recorder and another recorder in line with it

AND Some Newer units are used.

If so removal from the line should correct a problem

[AlanHK]

Try ISOpuzzle.
It will get every last byte or die trying.

If it does succeed, you can play the ISO file in VLC. If it's okay, just use ImgBurn to burn it to a new disc.
(Double layer if more than 4.7 GB)

[tloewenberg]

To LCSHG,
The players are:
1. One alone (plays on this one)
2. One is a combination VCR / DVD Player (doesn't play)
3. One is a blu-ray player that sits on top a VCR/DVD recorder. The BD player is isolated from the recorder by an A-B switch. The VCR/DVD recorder gets input from a DVR. Neither the BD player or the VCR/DVD recorder play the DVD.
Thx,
TL

[Epicurus8a]

I've discovered that some older discs were authored poorly to begin with (in a variety of ways). Consequently they don't always work on all machines. You can try re-authoring the disc, provided you manage to rip it to your computer.

Good luck!

[LCSHG]

Eloewenberg.


You had said that you used Decrypter And it went fime but did not result in a usable disk

1)I assume that is the Panny
2)That combo unit may need servuce [as cleaning etc)
3) blu-ray !!! Some were supposed to play a DVD disk But they didn't on some

There hane brrn a number of posts with good advice and should have worked