DVD wont play

[lazlowe]

I've tried to back-up a couple of DVDs to no avail.
I used DVD Shrink to rip and compress the original DVD, and Nero to burn. I'e tried burning as DVD-ROM-UDF and as DVD Video. The backups work ok on my computer DVD but when I try to play them in my home theatre, I get "DVD Cannot be played".
I'm using Nero 5.5.10.35, DVDShrink 2.0, a LG GMA4020B burner and a Pioneer DV-C302B player. After the first 2 wouldn't play, I've been trying on A DVD-RW disk to save media.
According to all the player info, my equipment should work. Any ideas? Am I doing something wrong?
My DVDs are Hypermedia. and the -RW is Maxell.
system specs: AMD XP 1800, 512 Mb DDR-RAM, Maxtor 120 Gb & 60 Gb HD, Chaintech A250 My VIVO 128 Mb video card.

[ulrich]

I tried Nero without any luck so now I use Copy To DVD to write mine, this works every time just select write DVD video and the back ups work fine. Does a DVD-RW work in a stand alone player without it being finalised

[thayne]

Use RecordNowmax, Nero sux for DVD's

[ulrich]

What about the DVD-RW does it work without finalising

[lazlowe]

Thanks for the tips. I tried Copy2DVD. Works like a charm! What a disappointment with Nero. I've had such great luck using it for audio and video CDs, VCDs and SVCDs.
And I didn't finalize the DVD-RW and it played fine in my Pioneer, once I got the right burner software going. Thanks again.

[poopyhead]

keep in mind any burning proggie that makes an .iso image first (i.e. copy2dvd) won't work for someone w/ win98, i.e. me. win98's FAT32 doesn't allow files bigger than 4 gig, so the .iso image created will always be truncated at 3.99 gig. hence, i'm forced to use nero express (latest version, i believe) for me, it's working quite well. all the DVD-Rs i've burned works on my pioneer dv333.

however, i think there was an issue with nero and older dvd players. apparently, nero burns the DVDs as UDF 1.02 or something, while older dvd players can only recognize DVD-Rs burned as UDF 1.01. most newer dvd players should be able to handle UDF 1.02.

[ulrich]

Well hers one for you, I have a scratch drive that is FAT32 and it takes my ripped files fine usually around 7g. My main drive is NTFS so maybe this has a bearing on it. Sorry for it drifting from the main subject.

keep in mind any burning proggie that makes an .iso image first (i.e. copy2dvd) won't work for someone w/ win98, i.e. me. win98's FAT32 doesn't allow files bigger than 4 gig,