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I have recently discovered that Saving Private Ryan won't play on my setup if recorded on DVD-R. (I'm sure there will be more titles like this) DVD-RW works fine. Every other backup I have is on DVD-R and they work fine. So instead of banging my head against it I ordered a pack of DVD-RW's. May just use these exclusively. 2 questions.
1. Any cons to using DVD-RW's instead of DVD-R's?
2. Is there a way to "lock" a DVD-RW so it can't be erased/written over?
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1. Far less compatibility.
2. Finalize it, then you have to erase it in order to write over it.
My guess would be you probably just ended up with a bad burn on the one movie. There is no reason on earth that one movie will not play on DVD-R while all others will. -
I ripped it twice, and burned it 3 times... I'm using dvdXcopy. I did just discover that if I burn the dvd-r without ifoediting out the annoying THIS IS A BACKUP screen that it works fine. With this particular movie deleting the playback for that screen fubars the dvd-r's...no idea why.
I also just found out that the ifoedited dvd-r's I made work fine in my xbox...but not in my sony dvp-ns300.
Must be a particualar problem with that rip/edit/burn/player combo
I got 50 DVD-RW's on the way for such future occurances, hopefully there won't be many. I like the ease of dvdXcopy so far (except for this movie!) -
Ummm, you should have donwsized DVDxCOPY after it was ready to burn , delete the .txt archive and used either NERO 5.5.917 or Recordnow DX to burn it as a data DVD, solved my brothers problem with his SONY 500UL and private ryan plays back perfect using a Ritek .86 cent blank media and it not only plays back in any DVD player but also his XBOX widescreen mode and PS2.
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Actually after I ifoedit them I use RecordNow to burn. Trying Nero now as a last ditch attempt.
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Tried nero too. Still no go. I think it's a compatability problem with the player.
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They fixed the problems in the newest version of nero peeps. (5.5.10.7b) Just use the DVD-Video template
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I was running 5.5.10.7 trying ver b now...
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SWEET! 5.5.10.7b did the trick! Thanks for everyones help. Now I have to figure out what to do with 50 blank dvd-r's
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