New user looking for help.

[Presence]

Hi all, I must first say this site and Forums so far have been a great resource and have helped me the last week or so since I got my burner and started backing up my DVD collection. I've have so far managed to back up several of my older DVDs successfully. I have the LG-4040B burner.

I have recently been purchasing Previously Viewed movies from the local rental shop as they are about 10-15 bucks each (cheap for my area of the world!). And the movies are relatively new ones (Hulk, Phonebooth etc.).

The problem that I seem to be encountering is that once I rip (using DVDDecrypter) the DVD the original will no longer play. Now the only player I have is the burner and an LG-8162B player in my PC. I have tried using PowerDVD, WinDVD, Media Player and Real Player and none of the Software will play the DVD. Though they did before the backup.

I am not sure if the original will play in a stand alone DVD player but my friend has taken the original DVD to his place to try it.

Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong or what could be causing this? Would it have anything to do that they were bought from the rental store? As I said I am pretty new to backing up my DVD collection. Any insight is greatly appreciated.

Also if any further info is required please ask!

Thanks.

[Turtle49]

What you have done should have absolutely no affect on being able to play the original. Why the problem is coming up is beyond me.

Hope this puts you some what at ease.

[Presence]

Thanks for the info. I have a small update, my friend tried the DVD in his stand alone player (no idea what model) and it did not play either. I checked the DVD and it doesn't appear to be smudged or scratched or anything.

There is no special type of protection on them because I purchased them from a rental store or is it just coincidence that my retail ones worked and the ones I purchased from the rental outlet don't seem to be functioning anymore.

Perhaps I should check for DVDDecrypter settings as I have just left them on the default settings so far.

Thanks again for the reply.

[Presence]

I hate to keep dredging this up but it is troubling me as to backup my DVDs it is taking me twice as long as I think it should, as I can backup my backups.

Just a little update again, I tried the original DVD in my folks player and it neither would play. They have a Panasonic stand alone player...and I can't see this being a media problem as it is the original disk.

Hope someone who hasn't read this can shed some light on this for me. Thanks again.

[iooi]

I have recently been purchasing Previously Viewed movies from the local rental shop as they are about 10-15 bucks each (cheap for my area of the world!). And the movies are relatively new ones (Hulk, Phonebooth etc.).
Thanks.

Did theses disks play OK for you in either a standalone or on your PC before your ripped them ?
I cant see how ripping could cause a problem unless its reading via the burning lazer and its trying to burn the disk.. and thats just a stab in the dark guess....but if its doing that then you would have no back up, which we assume play Ok ?