Unable to burn a compliant DVD with NEro or Instant CD/DVD.

[Myth(GJ)]

OK, First the background details. I have a Pioneer DVRW-A04 and have successfully copied unprotected DVD to DVD-R and got these to work in both my PC and Standalone DVD player - thus I am happy that the burner works OK, the Media is OK and my standalone accepts DVD-R without any problem. The fact that I can extract all these files from a DVD and burn them with either NERO or Instant CD/DVD suggests that there is nothing wrong with either of these two pieces of software.

My problem is as follows: I have followed the DVD9 to DVD-R guides at www.mpucoder.kewlhair.com/derrow to rip a copy of Dumb&Dumber, shrink it using ReMPEG and IFOEdit and then use IFOEdit to produce a new directory on my hard-disk containing the new VIDEO_TS.IFO and other IFO, BUP files. I can burn these with NERO 5.5.9.0 without any compliance problems (although it did mention something about file reallocation in NEROs burn log) and they will play on my PC but NOT in my Standalone Player. (I have tried the same in Instant CD/DVD using the UDF-Video-DVD option without success either).

This all suggests to me that IFOEdit is not doing something that it should be to make the files DVD compliant. I know someone somewhere has torn their hair out with similar problems but now has a solution. Can that person please help me out?

Thanks in advance.
Myth.

[EnemyWithin]

3 things to check that caused me problems in the beginning:

1. Make sure that you "Get VTS Sectors" in IFOEdit once you are done doing all your stripping and remuxing. This is VERY important.

2. Double check your directory structure in NERO. Make sure that you have created both AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS at the root, and that all the .ifo and .vob files are in the VIDEO_TS directory and NOT the root.

3. Make sure you select the last DVD template (UDF/ISO) in NERO. Remove the Joliet check and all the Relax ISO Restrictions.

[Myth(GJ)]

OK, Thanks my friend. I will give that a try and will let you know. I am using the NERO DVD VIDEO option so maybe that's the problem.

Thanks again for looking at this.

Myth

[wulf109]

I have noticed that Ifoedit is not creating a full set of ifo files in remux mode. I just use the create ifo files option after remux and that does create the full set of ifo files.

[q1aqza]

It will only create the ones associated with the remuxed VOBs.You have to manually copy teh other ones into teh new directory, Video_TS*, etc.

[Myth(GJ)]

q1aqza - can you explain more please?

This may explain why the only DVD-R i made out of the 20 I burnt so far that will work is the one where I copied the new VOB files back into the original folder overwriting the previous ones.

This does not work completly but does at least get recognised by my standalone player.

Myth.

I almost there - please please help.
(Does anyone know of a really good make of DVD-RW that might work in a standalone - even if it costs £20.00)

[q1aqza]

Myth,

When you remux the destination directory will only contain the vts_xx_xx.ifo & bup and the newly muxed vts_xx_xx.vobs. What will be missing is the video_ts.ifo, video_ts.bup, video_ts.vob and usually vts_01_0.vob (or whatever contains the menus) which is often the menu. Follow the basic ifoedit guide on Doom9.org and it explains to move the necessary files after each step.

[andydd]

Its possible to do away with all the ifoedit stuff. Just make 2 DVD-rs . Put the first Vts_01_1.vob, then 2, 3,etc on the first disc and on the second disc put on Vts_01_4.vob, 5, 6, etc. Making sure you put the Video_ts,vob,ifo,bup, etc files on both discs. I found this works for me and it plays on my pc and on my affrey standalone but you may well have problems with other standalone players. It started playing ok on my PS2 but did stop when it came to the first chapter !.Its worth a try though.

[Myth(GJ)]

OK people. Thanks for all your help so far. This is the latest results I have had.

I working on Three Kings at present. I ripped all the files to my hard disk and ReMPEGed the main movie part to get that down in size. This was placed in a new directory. I then added the Video_TS.IFO files and burnt this with NERO UDF/ISO. In my software player the Menu comes up and when I select PLAY MOVIE it plays the movie perfectly.This wont work in my standalone player - wont recognise as DVD at all.
So I then created dummy VOB files by using a small VOB file from another chapter and reproducing this to cover all the missing VOB files. When I put this in my player it recognises it as DVD, the menu comes up but freezes up when I try PLAY MOVIE. If I go to SCENE SELECTION in the Menu and then PLAY MOVIE from here it will start to PLAY but there is a pause between all the chapters.

It looks like my player somehow checks to see if all the chapters and VOB files are there before it starts to play them. Can I edit these out in IFOEdit so that it only looks for the movie VOBs?

Thanks.
Myth.

[andydd]

Yeah Ive noticed that some players seem to check the file integrity first and if something is slighlt amiss they dont play it. My afreey dvd player plays everything ok but i found that on my mums phillips tv/dvd player it plays straight copies of a dvd-5 with nothing messed with but any film where ive changed something or spread onto 2 discs it doesnt play. Although i add this is without using Ifoedit.

[Myth(GJ)]

OK, not sure who is still following this post but here are the latest results I have had.

I have two movies from my own collection where the disk size is more than 6Gb but the full movie size is less than one DVDR. If I take this movie set and put it in a new directory, open IFOEdit and hit Create IFOs and burn the result back to a DVDR it will work. So great I thought, I then ReMPEGed a movie, moved the files to a new folder and created new IFOs (did the GET VTS Sectors) and burned this to a disk but got no success?

Any ideas why.

Thanks
Myth