Newbie Questions Answered by a Newbie

[kvance]

Ok, I will say I was once a newbie that could not get his burned DVDs to work on his stand alone dvd player.

I had many hours of trials and error and finally got everything to work.

I first started off with a Dynex 8x, single layer burner and started to burn/make back ups of my 2 year olds dvd. I bought an original spongebob and had to purchase another because she scratched it beyond repair.

So I go out and buy a new Sponge Bob dvd and try and get my first dvd back up. I go out and purchase Memorex media 4x dvd roms. My 8x Dynex burner came with nero burning software so I was set. I used DVDShrink to rip the DVD and then it asks for a blank media. I put in my Memorex DVD and BAM, made my first back up DVD. Here is where I first started to experience problems. It would only play on my living room DVD Player and not even recognized in my daughter's DVD Player.

I often read a lot of these questions on the forum about how their burned DVD is not recognized by other stand alones. (I will give a solution to this later) Nothing I could do would rectify this problem.

SO I went to best buy and bought a new DVD burner for my pc. I got myself a Memorex 16x DUAL layer burner. Funny thing was, this DVD recorder ripped a lot slower then my 8x burner. HOW IN THE HELL WAS THIS POSSIBLE I THOUGHT.

This is I how solved this problem. There are two types of transfer methods, PIO and ULTRA DMA. It was set on PIO and I went and changed it to ULTRA DMA. This increased the transfer rate.

I did this buy going to START/Control Panel/SYSTEM/HARDWARE/DEVICEMANAGER/IDE ATA ATAPICONTROLLER/SECONDARYIDE/ADVANCEDSETTING.

Here you can change the transfer method to ULTRA DMA. This speeds up your ripping and burning 100x faster. Seriously, be sure to have it set to ULTRA DMA.

So, I make a new dvd back up with the new DUAL Layer burner. Now the funny thing, it would work perfect on my daughter's dvd player, but came all pixelated on my living room dvd player.

To make a long story short, this is how i make perfect dvds now. Works on about 90% of the dvd players I tested on it.

Get some type of nero burning software/DVD Decryptor/ DVD Shrink.

BUY GOOD DVD MEDIA! This was half of the trouble I ran across. Cheap media is cheap for a reason, it sucks. This two stacks of 50 DVDs for half price are half price for a reason. I would recommend using FUJI DVDs R+.
I have had some dvds not recognized by some dvd players when i used the R- type.

Burn speed. THIS IS CRUCIAL. I have never seen this brought up on other threads, but my DVD PLAYERS only will read DVD roms burned at 4x. If I burned at other speeds, the dvd is not recognized by the player or comes out pixelated, or about 5 minutes into the movie, it stutters and stops, then freezes.

To rip the dvd use DVD DECRYPTER. RIP means to take the data of of the orginal DVD to your computer.

After you have ripped the dvd to your computer, now is the time to use DVD SHRINK. You have to use shrink because most commerical movie dvds are 7 GB or larger. Well the blank media DVDS you buy at the store are only 4.3GB. You can not get 7GB of data onto a 4.3GB Disk unless you compress it, which is what DVD SHRINK DOES. I would reccomend that you use the REAUTHOR function to only extract the title/movie portion of the DVD because the less data you compress, the clearer your movie will be on your back up DVD. Some movies are only worth back up if you extract the movie and not the extras. Movies like, Saving Private Ryan or any movie over 2:45 hours get really blockly if you do not remove the extras.

If you have NERO, it will automatically burn after the shrink encodes the ripped material, so it is crucial that you change the burn speed before the encoding process begins. You will see the change burn speed option before encoding so be sure to do so. REMEMBER, i have had the best results burning only at 4X.

This is basically the crux of everything. Also I tried putting labels on my back ups, but it is more trouble then its worth. It wont read on some dvd players and I have noticed that the dvds come out extremely hot after watching them so it is probably doing bad things, (retaining/causing heat) inside my dvd player.

I hope this helps.

[freebird73717]

You can burn your dvd with dvd decrypter if you have dvdshrink create an iso file. Once shrink has created your iso just open dvd decrypter and change the mode to iso write. Then just choose the iso file and burn your dvd.