Cant figure out why

[kingkill33]

Ok, I am ripping with DVD Decrypter, encoding with DVD Shrink and burning with IMG Tool.
I have burned over 50 DVD's with this method and it has worked great.
But...
For some reason when I try to burn The Godfather, I get a burn fail error about 15 minutes into burnning. When I burn it to a DVD-RW it has no problems but when I try to burn to DVD-R, I get the error.
Any ideas?
Getting frustrated
Thanks for the help guys.

[Tommyknocker]

Did you try DVDShrink by itself?

[kingkill33]

Did you try DVDShrink by itself?

Do you mean, rip, encode and burn with DVD Shrink?

Why am I having problems with The Godfather and no other ones?

[bartman]

I did The Godfather just last week (R4) using only DVD Shrink and didn't have a problem....although due to the length of the movie you would be better off either splitting over 2 dvd-r's or re-encode using cce or tmpgenc. I get a lot of macroblocks...especially in the wedding scene (lots of trees and moving people and stuff)....however it will only be played on a 52cm TV so it isn't that noticable....but if you are aiming for a larger or better quality screen, 2 dvd's is the go.

Back to your original question though...I had no problem burning it after 'DVD Shrink'ing it.

[kingkill33]

Bartman, what are you using to burn?
What exactly are macro blocks? Is that like pixelation?

[bartman]

I use Nero. I create a new DVD-ROM UDF/ISO project and manually create the VIDEO_TS folder. I also check that all non-standard ISO crap is turned off on the ISO tab (ISO level 1 with ISO 9660 character set...joliet turned off) and I use UDF Physical partition, version 1.02 on the UDF tab. I use a pioneer 104.

Macroblocks are where you can see the compression....like a really bad jpeg.

[kingkill33]

Looks the same as pixelation to me.
Either way it is s#$@.

[bartman]

forgot to mention....that pic I uploaded was just an illustration. It is a frame grab from a scene on the extras disk but I poped it into PSP and saved it as a jpec with 75% compression added. The original frame didn't look anywhere near as bas as that (which came from a DVD shrink'd DVD)

It could be confused with pixelation however it is just the compression blocks becomming visible due to lack of data. Each block isn't a solid colour, which is what you would get if it was pixelation....also, if it was pixelation, then the smallest thing you could see would be the size of a pixel....which isn't the case in the image I uploaded.

Try it yourself...load a nice BMP into a paint program and save it as a heavily compressed JPG....then compare the difference.