dvd plays on standalone, but my optorite can't even see it?!

[mrhata]

I have a dvd, Swordsman II, it plays fine on my sony player. But in my dvd-r drive, it can't even see it. No dvd found according to dvdshrink. Dvddecypter says "incompatible media". The dvd-drive in windows explorer turns to "cd-drive".
How can I make the dvd-drive recognize the movie?

[Flukesy]

are you using the latest firmware?
is it compatible region ? i.e. region 1 in a region 1 DVD-ROM

[mrhata]

I'm not using the latest firmware. I did flash it about 2 months ago.
It played my other DVDs and other back-ups and they work fine. But when I play this one it is just not recognized. My sony is a region 1 (or U.S. forgot if US is 1 or 3) but it is U.S. Standard.

I can try the new firmware and see what happens.
But until then, any other suggestions are welcome.

[moults]

I am also using an optorite and have flashed the latest firmware but I have the same problem with every dvd that I copy. I still haven't found the answer so if you do let me know please

[MOVIEGEEK]

Are CD's and DVDR recognized by the drive?If they are then the disc is the problem.
Do you have ForceASPI drivers installed?

[mrhata]

For me, I've been on an older firmware, my cd's and dvd's (origs & back-ups) are being recognized. This is the first one for me to act up like this.

[mrhata]

I tried doing the current firmware for the Optorite2203 but its on DOS.
It requires me to create a boot disk, then to extract the files to the disk, but then there is not enough room on the disk for the firmware files.
Anyone have a trick for that? Or should I start a new thread?

Also, still can't figure out why (Swordsman) that dvd is the only unrecognizeable one for my dvd-r. The previous foreign films warned me to change the region settings beforehand. But this one just is not recognized as inside the drive at all. "Please inser disc".

[Suga-Sam]

The disk is not a region 1 disk I assume, and if you have changed the region on your drive 4 or 5 time then it is now perm.
Have you tried any other foreign films since you had this problem ?
I suspect that you will have this problem with any none region 1 disk. as you cannot chcnge the region on the drive anymore.
There is a hack somewhere that can make drives region free. I do not remember where I saw this though. check the tools section.
Hope that helps