AFTER MOVIE IS BACKED UP- IT WONT PLAY IN MY PC. WHEN PUT IN DVD PLAYER IT STATES DISC IS DIRTY ANY ADVICE PLEASE?
Perhaps a description of what you have, media/burner, software etc would help. Anyhoo, did you check the burned surface? Are there like spots in the dye? If so that could be the problem.
If you burned using nero - there is a possibility it did not FINALISE the disc, older versions of nero suffered from this - I think 5.5.9.17 onwards was much improved. Nero can be very fussy, I would suggest you use recordnowmax - this is A1 for me with no problems encountered. Hope this helps.
I am very surprised indeed, veritas IS the same as I was suggesting. IF the dvd does not play in ur pc, I think we will have to look at ur method first rather than saying it could be bad media. Let me know of ur method: What do you use to rip What do you use to process (dvd2one/dvdshrink) What settings do you use to burn within recnowmax. What brand is the media ur using. AND MOST IMPORTANT - after you have processed the files (via dvd2one/dvdshrink) are those files residing in a folder called VIDEO_TS (in uppercase).
well i have dvd decrypter , but i was told using dvd shrink automatically decrypts the dvd. so after i shrink it i usually use encode level 6. because it is the only level small enough to fit.i guess that is the settings you speak of. the media i use is MEMOREX 120 min 4.7gb. and most importantly it is in folder VIDEO_TS, plus an additional empty AUDIO_TS FOLDER.thank you very much for your time and your patience.
Just to re-cap: dvd decrypter to rip. dvdshrink to process. recordnowmax to burn. From my own recent experience, I use a seperate ripper (dvd decrypter) use dvd2one to rpocess use recordnowmax to burn. I think we should have a look at ur dvd that u burned and WHAT settings used in recordnowmax. Put the dvd in (within windows) and let me know of WHAT files or on it (all within VIDEO_TS). Also HOW do you burn within recordnowmax - what settings, be specific... I do have a small guide for recordnowmax of the settings I use - which work for me, but it is not an easy read foramt...._X_X_X_X_X_[small]I never did mind about the little things[/small]
thank you for all your help. the problem was that i was encodeing the disc at level 6.for some reason i guess the quality was so poor that it would not play it.
I have had a quick dip into dvdshrink, and was quite amazed at the level of re-encoding options. (and wondered how low the bitrate could be reduced, and if a standalone would have any problem in playing it). You have actually answered my question. For this reason and others, I shall be sticking to dvd2one - once a method works, no need to change. Anyway glad to hear you solved it, I probably wasn't much help in the end.
