I normally rip DVDS by:- =DVD Shrink rip whole dvd to hard drive. =DVDRemake to hide buttons, warnings, extras etc. =DVD Shrink to shrink down the remaining and remove the extra languages etc. All fine and dandy. But recently I have been having problems. When I use Shrink to compress down after I have edited with DVD Remake, it does not produce a VIDEO_TS.VOB file. If I then run the shrunk files back through DVD Remake then it does rebuild it and then I can burn it onto a DVD OK. Another problem, I use DVDRemake to edit out buttons and warnings on an already shrunk product, the resulting files, when I try and burn using Nero results in a DVD File allocation faiure warning from Nero tho all the files appear to be there compared to the original. At all times, I can play the movies on the PC using PowerDVD, but I also had a problem with one TV series that would "crash" when the DVD player accessed parts of the menu - something it would not do when I play the exact same disk on the PC using PowerDVD. Finally, is there a program out there that I can run over my DVD files to tell me exactly WHERE the project is not DVD compliant, Nero just says it isnt, but wont tell me why not
If you pm me with your email address I can send you a program called Mark's Tray DVD Player that's designed for exactly that purpose. I use it all the time to test discs after I run them through DRM.
Thanks, I have a copy of that program, it wont run properly, keep getting a "cant render one or more streams" error - reports the problem is with the Subpic stream. That program seems very difficult to find on the Net, lots of links to versions that aren't there anymore! At present I have installed DVDRemake Pro and have started using DVD Decrypter in Flie mode to rip the full DVDs to disk.
When I initially installed Mark's Tray Player I also had problems rendering streams with it and I solved it by reinstalling DirectX. I'm not surprised you can't find a good link to it because the author wasn't giving permission to host it to sites like AD and now it's only available for registered DVD-Lab users.