Anyone tried DVD2ONE?

[gobama]

NERO is great, I am using version 5.5.917, but Prassi works good as well as RecordNow Max. I have also heard that Instant CD/DVD works like a charm too. So we have several to work with. Cheers

[Will Hay]

Actually, now that I see there are issues with nero I know what the problem is. Record now works like magic.

I'll second that.
I never got Nero to work either but for me Prassi works like a charm.
Will

Typical!
I made my first coaster twenty minutes ago

[Bstansbury]

Aheath,... How about adding some value to your posts... Tell us what version of Nero you are using, what settings did you use that gave you a coaster,.. was it a DVD+R, -R, +RW, -RW, what???. Was it working for you before,... what changed in your system,... Or did some magic genie sneak into your house at night and sprinkle some "pixie Dust" on you system.... I'm not trying to be critical, I just want to get some good information out of your experience.

[aheath]

Aheath,... How about adding some value to your posts... blah blah .. Or did some magic genie sneak into your house at night and sprinkle some "pixie Dust" on you system....

Indeed,, It was the pixie dust! I had no idea until now..... blah blah....



Ok, here is the [value added] bonus section to my last post. Since there is no flaming forum on this site, for those in love with nero, lets be civilized and get along. Use nero if you like it and don't bitch about how it works well because we all already know it works well most of the time. ,,,

Ok my Nero is version 5.5.10.7b. Yes, it worked on most but not all discs. The facts are this: Some people have problems, some don't. Obviously the author of DVD2ONE is not flattered about nero, so he suggests you not use it (hence my last post of what fixed my coaster problem)... Media was DVD+R. Nothing changed on the system. I used the same files to make 2 coasters using nero, and the same files to make 1 good DVD with Record now. Maybe there is something about that specific DVD (castaway) that nero doesnt like, maybe not.

Bstansbury, I hope I have included everything you have requested.

[rhegedus]

I'm using Nero 5.5.10.0 with a combination of programs: DVD2ONE, SpruceUp, Ulead MF. I must have burned about 50 disks of all formats in the past month and have not had a single coaster.

Why - who knows!?! But I've always tested the files before committing them to non-rewritable.

First, play the DVD files from your HD using something like Power DVD.
Then, If you're happy, burn to +/-RW.
Finally, If you're happy with that, burn to +/-R.

Follow the above, and you'll never make another coaster (excluding bad media, of course).

Regards,

Rob

[B-boy]

I have done about 10 with DVD2one, but the last 4 i have done in the past 2 days have all been coasters, i havn't changed any of my setup
Smart Ripper
DVD2One
Record now 4.5
now all these last 4 get those pixelated blocks and they freeze up and say Unable to read disc? 2 wouldn't even load at all?
( could it be the media - even though it's the same media i have been using from the beginning?)
Can anyone please explain why it would be doin this now? The program was working great & then all of aa sudden it's like it's had enough?
it's driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks in advance

[mikef07]

I will tell all of you. GET RITEK MEDIA. If you are using any other media besides Ritek you are wasting your money. If you buy 100 it is about 80 cents a disc. I have burned 183 movies so far and have yet to have a coaster. I tried the Media that came with my Recorder (1 disc) and it turned out to be a coaster.

[simmons3d]

I will tell all of you. GET RITEK MEDIA. If you are using any other media besides Ritek you are wasting your money. If you buy 100 it is about 80 cents a disc. I have burned 183 movies so far and have yet to have a coaster. I tried the Media that came with my Recorder (1 disc) and it turned out to be a coaster.

I'll second that! The ritek G03's, burned at 2x on my A04 using firmware 1.31 and Nero 5.5.9.17 have been the most compatable and reliable discs I've used.

[B-boy]

We don't have ritek out here in Australia, well not yet anyways. i use LAZER & they have been reliable & quite good and burn at 2x, they are $1.40 each
But can anyone give me any insight to why my DVD2one has all of a sudden decided to just shit itself? I posted about 5 posts above
Thanks

[Will Hay]

Actually, now that I see there are issues with nero I know what the problem is. Record now works like magic.

I'll second that.
I never got Nero to work either but for me Prassi works like a charm.
Will

Typical!
I made my first coaster twenty minutes ago

Make that two coasters in the same night.
Never again will I proclaim to be perfect at dvdr conversion!
Will Hay, a big believer in fate

[aaron10]

Your suggestions/thoughts, please...

I rip with SmartRipper, "downsize" with DVD2ONE, and burn (to Verbatim DVD-R on a Panasonic LF-D311) with RecordNow Max 4.5 (Dara Disc, TAO Closed, UFD w/ Joliet), with all IFO's, VOB's etc. in a VIDEO_TS folder along with an empty AUDIO_TS folder. The burn finishes successfully.

The DVD-R plays in my APEX 1100 but sometimes I have to eject the disc once or twice to get the DVD player to recognize the disc as a DVD movie. It then plays without a problem. However, I just tried one of the discs in several machines at Circuit City and nary a one played the disc. A few seemed to recognize it as a DVD movie, but when the play button was pressed (since it didn't start automatically), the machine would not play the movie. (Of course, these discs always play like champs in WinDVD on the computer.)

What is the diagnosis? What steps should I take to eliminate the "problem" and to make the discs as compatible as possible?

Many thanks for your consideration...

[NightWing]

Was wondering this. Check the video director to see if all key files are there. All caps number order. etc.

Also when did you download your nero. There is a b revision postted on the 3 of Feb. That is one I am using feeding a DRU500A.

Also what has changed on you system. I do mean anything.

I am still freeking on my own version of you problem but in reverse. Have a old Sharp 600 that hates any "home made" cd except for one or two mfg CDRW. Tried a DVD+RW no go. Tried a unbranded DVD-R from PCClub 25 pack work very well! So deside to pop the same video on one of the onsale TDK DVD-RW and work just as good!

Wondering now if its not the medial but all of these player that are the main cause of problems.

[samsung27f]

Well, let's see I've tried the abyss and back to the future in my toshiba, it has pause/skip problems, tried it in my apex, no pause/skip problems, and yes I've tried ifoedit, yet I still get skips in the toshiba, very strange indeed.

[Hex]

Your suggestions/thoughts, please...

I rip with SmartRipper, "downsize" with DVD2ONE, and burn (to Verbatim DVD-R on a Panasonic LF-D311) with RecordNow Max 4.5 (Dara Disc, TAO Closed, UFD w/ Joliet), with all IFO's, VOB's etc. in a VIDEO_TS folder along with an empty AUDIO_TS folder. The burn finishes successfully.

The DVD-R plays in my APEX 1100 but sometimes I have to eject the disc once or twice to get the DVD player to recognize the disc as a DVD movie. It then plays without a problem. However, I just tried one of the discs in several machines at Circuit City and nary a one played the disc. A few seemed to recognize it as a DVD movie, but when the play button was pressed (since it didn't start automatically), the machine would not play the movie. (Of course, these discs always play like champs in WinDVD on the computer.)

What is the diagnosis? What steps should I take to eliminate the "problem" and to make the discs as compatible as possible?

Many thanks for your consideration...

I used to use RNM exclusively then I upgraded to 4.5 and my discs would play in the PC but not one of my standalones. I found out later RNM now uses UDF 1.5 and my player only recognizes 1.02. The nice thing about using Nero is that you can choose which UDF version you should use. Since going back to Nero I haven't had anymore issues.

The setting in Nero that I use are UDF/ISO no multisession, UDF 1.02, ISO level 1, ISO 9660, Joliet unchecked, relax ISO all unchecked. Drag and drop VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. I have yet to find a player that would not read discs burned this way. HTH.

[samsung27f]

Where can you pick the UDF version?

[Hex]

Open Nero, close the wizard, choose dvd then dvd-rom(udf/iso), once you choose that a udf tab appears and you can pick which udf version to use.

[samsung27f]

I got it, interesting there's a setting for XBox in there.

[musher70]

AHEATH, I had that same problem with "disc error", here's
probably the solution ok? sometimes dvd2one puts the ifo
to pal, that is it changes from 720x480 to 704x480, get
into the habit of checking with ifoedit before you burn it,
also sometimes changes from 16x9 to 4x3, so better use
rw's from time to time....

[samsung27f]

Why, is there some way of changing it in ifoedit?

[aheath]

MUSHER70, Possible, but I used the same files. Even if this was the case, even my computer would not read the disc. When the dvd was put in the DVD drive, it would say "Unsupported format" when I tried to view the files in explorer. If it was just a PAL problem, you would think it would at least read the disc on the computer (file wise).

As far as DVD+R toasting, I would rather make a coaster once in a great while than wait around to test it on DVD+RW everytime,, and then have to burn it on DVD+R after that. If I make a coaster I will just try another app. So far Record now is 100%.

BTW - Since I have DVD+, does anyone know any advantages or disadvantages to it for purposes such as the ones discussed here? All I have seen so far is that the media is more expensive than DVD-.

[Bstansbury]

Arron10 --Hex,, Thanks very much to both of you. The posts you've made contained critical information and provide great "Value Add" to the rest of us.

While there have been some post on this site that claim RNM is the ultimate,... your info shows that you can have problems with any software, anytime. I'm more interested in knowing why something works or doesn't work,... because things never stay the same,.. they're changing the software everyday. What will work this week may not work next week,... and if we never get to the detail understand, such as your posts are providing, what happens the next time it breaks?????

Anyway,.. thanks again.

[TOMMO]

I WAS very sceptical about this program. But decided to try it. But what would be good test.

GLADIATOR - long movie, 150 minutes long, 6.7GB. Huge battle scene right at the beginning. I have origianl disk. Decided this would be a good test.

Ripped the vobs using file mode in decryptor. Opened DVD2ONE, thought I was missing something, as it all seemed to simple. Selected the movie, selected AC3 and started it. 31 minutes later it told me it was complete.

Played the resulting file back in Powerdvd, looked good. Went straight to Nero and burnt it, played it back on Philips standalone, and the result is EXCELLENT.

What it does, how it does it and all those kind of questions I could not care less about. 150 minute movie, ripped in 24 minutes, DVD2One in 31 minutes, burnt in 23 minutes. This is excellent.

[aaron10]

Bstansbury...Thanks for the kind words. Hex, thanks for the insights...

I would also like to get to the bottom of using ifoedit after DVD2ONE. I have seen this mentioned a few times before but with no exact reason for performing the operation and with no details as to how to perform the operation.

I opine the reason for doing it is because DVD2ONE does not always create the proper IFO's? (I, of course, do not know whether that's the actual case.) My further speculation is that ifoedit must check the DVD2ONE IFO's against the DVD2ONE VOB's and "sense" whether they are properly configured and, if not, edits them to comport with the VOB's?

In the past, for kicks, I have opened the DVD2ONE generated VIDEO_TS.IFO and performed GET VTS Sectors in ifoedit. ifoedit asks wheher I'd like the other IFO's processed as well. It then pulls in VTS_01_0.IFO (I think) and does "its thing". However, it does "its thing" so fast I wonder what it is actually doing -- we're talking a fraction of a second here. It certainly doesn't seem to be checking chapter timepoints, etc., because (from an uneducated standpoint) it would seem like that would take a lot more time to accomplish.

Can someone with knoweldge of using this utility enlighten me as to what it is doing (i.e., what does it produce), what I should allow it to do, and how I should do it? Are the files automatically saved as it says or do I have to perform a save? Is there any way to check whether things are in satisfactory order before a burn, since I can only burn to DVD-R...my drive doesn't support -RW (drat).

Many thanks...

[Tasty303]

I have been using this app for a few days now and of all the disks I have tried it worked prefectly and under 40 mins for each one on a Overclocked Celeron 600 (to 901).
I recently used smartripper , rempeg and ifoedit

This is great - its not a scam !
I have had no probelms using Nero to burn it either

[musher70]

open vts_01_.ifo in ifoedit, look at title set attributes
near bottom and doulble click,and see attributes, you can
change several factors here, like resolution and stuff,
MAKE SURE YOU SAFE ANY CHANGES....THIS IS FOR DVD2ONE

AHEATH, if you change it back to ntsc settings, and reburn
it should recognize it...

[Mordant]

Well, I've got a possible work around for the "encrypted data" error. I've had success with two DVDs that gave me the encrypted data error before. This adds some extra work to the process, but these are DVDs that I've tried many different ways and had no success. Also, this is the way it worked for me so I'm not going to monkey with it too much...it may very well be that certain steps do not have to be taken. Experiment as you will =)

First: Rip the entire disk using Smartripper in File Mode - default settings.

2nd: Load IFOs into IFOedit and remove p-ups ect. Then get VTS to create new IFOs.

3rd: Create an Image of the ripped files with IFOedit/IMGtools.

4th: Mount the Image using DaemonTools.

5th: Run DVD2ONE on the mounted image.

6th: Wait.

7th: Breathe a sigh of relief as you realize the msg from DVD2ONE is about being complete - not an encrypted data error.

=)

Let me know if it works for anyone else.

[Bstansbury]

Well I tried DVD2ONe demo and it looked fine for 30 minutes. I tried for days to buy it but the site was down. I finally got it and tried my first DVD on it and I have to admit it looks great. The movie was Pacemaker which was 2:03:49 long, or about 7.5 GB's. After the transcode it was 4,483 MB as expected. I used Nero 5.5.10.7b to burn it in DVD-Video mode,.. which turns out to be UDF/ISO9660 (Mode 1). I used a Verbatim DVD+RW disk. I tested the results on PowerDVD first and it was fine, and after the burn I tested it off the disk in PowerDVD,... again fine. Then I tested it in my APex 1500 DVD, and it played fine, all chapter, skipping worked ok. The first time I had selected the AC3 2 ch stereo and the sound was fine. Now I'm going to test the burn to a DVD+R disk.

This process is so slick, I can't see taking any more time doing this a differnet way. While I would expect that there are areas of pixeling, and other artifacts, I guess I'm just to engaged in watching the movie, I don't see any bad parts,... at least for this first test. I'm very pleased with the program.

[leebo]

AHEATH, I had that same problem with "disc error", here's
probably the solution ok? sometimes dvd2one puts the ifo
to pal, that is it changes from 720x480 to 704x480, get
into the habit of checking with ifoedit before you burn it,
also sometimes changes from 16x9 to 4x3, so better use
rw's from time to time....

Musher,
Which IFO are you talking about, vts_01_.ifo (the one that refers to the actual movie)?

[Bstansbury]

NOt sure if I found a problem with DVD2ONe or not. In my last post to this thread, I had good success with D21, but I just re-encoded the same movie and selected "DTS" audio this time and then burned it in Nero. The burn went OK, but the results was there was no audio at all. I then check the orginal output of dVD2one and played it in PowerDVD,... sure enough,... there was no audio. The picture was perfect on both the PC and my APEx1500, but no audio in either.

Has anyone had success with DVD2one using a DTS audio stream????

[alenhard]

obvious question- is your receiver DTS compatible? Some aren't, and if that's the case, then you won't hear any audio. You could always try the disc on a different receiver to see if there was a burning problem.

I've had 100% success with DTS audio and DVD2ONE.