DVD2oneX DVD-R's don't play with Mac DVD-Player

[symphy]

On my Mac I have problems playing DVD2oneX DVD-R's.

I make them just the way as described in this forum's sticky (How to PROPERLY burn DVD2ONE DVD's using TOAST 6.0 [UPDATED]), only I still use Toast 5.2. The toast version can't be the problem, because when I create an image with DVDImager, and burn it with the diskutil from Apple, the problem is the same.
I decrypt with OSEx.

With other Macs or standalone DVD players, no problem.

What could be the problem?
I already deleted the DVD-Player prefs, but this doesn't help.

[galactica]

odd, what is the specific error that dvd player shows you.
never had this error with a dvd2one dvd UNLESS i play around with the files in the VIDEO_TS folder.

if you use Video Lan's OPEN VIDEO_TS option, what happens.

[AntnyMD]

The Toast version may very well be the problem, because the Sticky describes the process for Toast 6, but the steps are slightly different in Toast 5. If you aren't burning it as a DVD-ROM in UDF mode, it won't play back ... maybe not even mount.

[tgpo]

I still have the steps to burn using Version 5 on my website. Here

[symphy]

Apple DVD Player does not report any error at all. The disc mounts, DVD player goes in full screen mode, but the movie doesn't start. Pressing the play button gives a warning 'NIET TOEGESTAAN' in dutch, translated this would mean 'NOT ALLOWED'.
DVD Player does not play the VIDEO_TS folder manually, it reports that there is 'no appropriate media file' or something, but VLC does play it well.
Most strange: on my Mac at work, everything works well. Same OS version 10.2.8, but a Pioneer DVR104 instead of DVR105 drive.

I was afraid toast could be the problem, that is why I tried DVD Imager and burned with the disk utility from Apple.

Thanks for the link to the old DVD20neX with toast 5 page. But I did it that way, so this is not the problem. Very interesting site.

Very strange indeed,
thanks for all your reactions.
I hope we can find the solution...[/quote]

[AntnyMD]

Just curious, are you using the latest version of DVD2OneX?

[galactica]

is there a slight possibility you accidently removed a file from the VIDEO_TS folder before burning?

VLC is more forgiving in this respect, it just says oh well and goes on. DVD PLAYER assumes itself to be well a dvd player and if it wont play in there its really high chance it wont play on a standalone player

can you give some specifics of this movie

perhaps the source file list to your burned file list??

[symphy]

I tried several movies. All the same result.

This is the file list of the resulting (by DVD2OneX) movie.
I am still testing in demo mode (hope this isn't the problem).



When I write to a disc image with toast, and mount it, it plays fine in DVD player. The same image burned: problemas!

What is missing for DVD player???

[AntnyMD]

... but!

When you burn with Toast, is the name of your disc AUDIO_TS, or VIDEO_TS? If it is, that is the problem ... You're burning your movie files in the root of the DVD, and thats not spec.

[galactica]

agreed
You HAVE to have these as subfolders of the dvd

DVD_NAME
------SUB FOLDER #1 = AUDIO_TS
------SUB FOLDER #2 = VIDEO_TS
------------Files in SUB FOLDER #2 (VIDEO_TS.ifo.......)

[symphy]

Of course, I agree.
The VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folder are both located in a folder named (for example in this case) ANGELAS_ASHES.
And it is that folder that I drop on Toast. So the disk becomes named as "ANGELAS_ASHES".
What is even more strange, when I rip a DVD with ffmpegX, everything works fine!? Same structure there.

[AntnyMD]

It could be just a difficult disc. Take the folder with the decrypted content, delete all of the files with extensions of .bup and .ifo, then copy/paste those exact same files from the DVD into the decrypted folder. See how that does.

[symphy]

When I encode the same disc with ffmpegX or 42DVDMPPlus, I have no problems playing it with Apple DVD Player!
Only DVD2OneX gives me trouble.