Interesting problem with Spirit DVD

[Evil4blue]

I'm trying to backup Spirit. Don't ask me why, but my finacee love these disney-type movies. Anyway, I'm trying for the movie only, and I used dvd decrypter and ifoedit to do the normal rip, strip, and recompile. Everything works peachy until I burn the disk. I use nero (non dvd-video method) to burn all my disks, with no problems until now. The movie plays fine in power dvd 4, but is a no go in the home dvd play. I use a pioneer 525 dvd stb, and it's been a tank, it has never spit out anything I threw at it...until now. I'm using the same method I used for 15 other flawless backups, and the same ritek dvd-r media. The dvd player doesn't even error out on the disk, it actually tries to start plying but the counter get hung up on 00:00, but doesn't freeze the player. Any opinions, suggestions.

Oh yeah, I tried burning it twice already. With the exact same result.

[daznic]

Hi,

Just copied spirit, but re-encoded as a DVDR copy using DVD2SVCD with CCE, i only did it this way because this is the method i am familiar with.

Worked great, looks identical to the original, plays fine on standalone

Pioneer DVR105 - Rytek dvdr - Dansai 1010 player

[Evil4blue]

Update on my back-up of Spirit.

When I ripped the movie from the dvd, it was already small enough to fit on a single dvd-r disk. So as in previous back-ups, I just stripped out the unwanted audio and subs, corrected the ifo files and burned the disk. This has always worked fine for me. Spirit actually has a 2nd vob ID on the main movie that appears to contain no data. I reprocessed the files and stripped this second vob id, ans wha-la. I works great on my stb dvd. I wonder if my dvd player was just confused by this empty data track, and I wonder if this was place there on purpose by the original dvd makers.

Oh well, problem sloved.
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