/VIDEO_TS.IFO:3: unable to open file TCE

[grahammcdonald]

Hello all,

I am a complete newbie to this but other people MUST have had this error before!.

the ripping seems fine (no errors and the filea are there)
it's just the burn that doea not even start (I hope the drive is not duff)

this is what I am doing

1. using a brand new pioneer DVR-106D drive (on firmware 1.07)
2. using AnyDVD 3.2.0.1 to copy to a folder on C
3. trying to burn a dvd from that folder using clonedvd 1.3.9.8
3. '/VIDEO_TS.IFO:3: unable to open file TCE' is the last bit of the error I get EVERY time in a small windows.

It is starting to drive me up the wall.

I have tried DVD Decrypter (latest ver) to copt the files to the c instead and the same thing happens.

do I need the latest ver of ASPI drivers or something? I am a bit scared to install them as a while ago I did so and I had to reinstall win2K.
the error comes up straight away when hit the final next of clonedvd after about a second!. I am thinking perhaps I should have bought the sony drive after all?.
ASPI check says I'm on 4.5.7(1008) of all the files of ASPI.

please help!, Somebody, anybody!

[fritzi93]

Graham, since you've gotten no expert help yet, perhaps you'll settle for this in the meantime.

It does sound very much like a) corrupt ASPI, or b) you need a more recent version. Wait, though. If I had this problem I'd approach it systematically, so as to not do anything that will make things worse, or to confuse myself even more.

Check your connections, check your master/slave jumpers. Find out what device manager can tell you. If that doesn't help, I'd delete the writer and reboot, letting Windows autodetect it. Then update ASPI and try your previous method again (with a rewritable, of course).

Still no dice? Try having DVDDecrypter read AND write in ISO mode. Try DVDShrink and some other burning program. Patience, you'll get there.

[grahammcdonald]

thank you fritzi93 for your quick reply,

It helped me because it works now!!!

At first I thought,
is it aspi?, the fact i'm running fat32?,

Nope, you were right it was the cabling of the drive.

this was how is was setup previously,when it did not work:-

I have a total of 4 ports ; 2 standard IDE ports and 2 Promise IDE ATA100ultra DMA ports on the gigabyte mainboard.

The harddisk was pluged into a IDE promise port on master
The dvr-106 was on a standard port on master and a dvd-rom drive was on that same cable as a slave.

I changed the dvr-106 to a master on the other IDE promise port.
rebooted, then windows asked to reboot again.
hey presto!

now up and burning my first dvd+rw.

thanks
again

[fritzi93]

Delighted it was of some help to you Now let us know how it comes out and if it plays on a standalone. Not quite there yet.