Problem watching on home DVD player, but watch ok in WinDVD

Hi list!

I compressed Godfather I to fit 1 DVD and burned in DVD+R media. I can watch the movie in the PC (WinDVD) but when inserting the disc into the stand alone DVD player says no disc is inserted. I've tried it in many dvd players in various stores at a mall but without success.

The disc type i'm using is ok, since i have burned many other movies on that DVD's (same package) ripped and excluded audio with Smartripper and IFO Edit and work very well with my DVD player, i have done this 11 times.

This time i ripped with smartripper, and separated with english audio only and spanish subts and watched with WinDVD, then i compressed using DVD2One and again watched with WinDVD, then i burned to DVD+R media and watched with WinDVD, but in my standalone DVD player says "No disc" error.

Any help? advice? it looks like the compression method dvd2one uses is not understood by all DVD players. Or am i doing something wrong?

Thanks for your help!
Chema

If it plays correctly in WinDVD, then there is nothing wrong. You must have burned it incorrectly. Did you follow instructions from step 3 of the How to use on the website?
Or by any chance did you use Nero to burn? Don't ! Please use CopyToDVD!

Erwin

Ok, thanks for your reply!, i'll try what you say.

I burned it with Nero.

But as far as i know, the "must" for a DVD is to have certain directory structure (VIDEO_TS and so on) and if the .vob files are structured correctly it should work, right?

What would be the difference between burning with Nero and burning with Copy2DVD?

Regards
Chema

The difference is that C2D works everytime/everywhere and in everything. It just 'works'.
Nero works great--sometimes, with the right setting, depending on the version, and the environment, and how you hold your tongue during spin-up...and what/who you prayed to the night preceding!

Very funny,I guess when my new Nero 6 screws up,i'll pray to Nero,God of Burning Discs....

I tried out the Copy2DVD trial and was impressed so I bought it. I was happily using it until I realized that it seemed to severely slow down the loading of my Power Desk file manager program. It also caused my "right click" context menus to become full screen rather than a normal box. The final straw was when I realized that it was preventing encoding in the Ulead DVD Moviefactory program. I removed C2D and everything is working perfect again.
I also read that the author of DVDDecrypter recommends not using it or BlindWrite as they cause problems with DVDD. It supposedly has something to do with the Patin-Couffin (sp?) ASPI-type drivers. I fortunately did not see those problems with DVDD.
I'm going to put Copy2DVD on the side for now and try it again after a few more versions are released and hopefully the bugs will be gone. I'm back to the last version of Nero 5.5 and I haven't had a bad burn yet. I'm also trying out a new (for me, anyway) freeware burning program which I'm very impressed with so far. It's called Burnatonce and is available at http://www.burnatonce.com/ It's been burning flawlessly as well.

Interesting...
Personally, I never let those P-C aspi drivers load during install.
I just went with 4.60/ForceASPI beforehand (you might try that).

Make sure that Book Type DVD-ROM is selected in Nero.
A lot of DVD players require that the compatability bitset setting is set.

@chema

What version are you using?

Just want you to test a theory but can you try to view your movie using PowerDVD? WinDVD can be less forgiving at times.

I DID IT!!!

I tried again but with Catch me if you can and it worked!!!, the first time i created the VIDEO_TS folder manually and added everything to the DVD, maybe the folder name was lowercased or something (i teared of the disc ) but this time i used the New DVD video disc option of Nero Express Wizard (it asks only for ifo, vob, bup etc files, not the VIDEO_TS folder, it creates it), burned and watched it in my Daewoo DVD player. Maybe i was a dumb and made a mistake when burning, i don't know.

But i have now a question. I've read the comparison between CloneDVD, DVD2One and InstantCopy etc, why i see the DVD2One movie exactly like the original?? why there are differences? i dont think there is a difference, why the article says DVD2one looks worse than the other movies?

Thanks a lot you guys for your replies
I'm very happy burning DVD's, Blockbuster will have to be careful! :-)

Don't trust reviewers, trust your own eyes ...

Erwin

I know many people here have said not to use Nero for burning, that Copy2DVD "just works." I'm one person who will tell you that that's not always true. Like at least one other person here, I had problems with Copy2DVD -- it interfered with other software I had installed on my system, and the burns would fail part-way through (at less than 20%).

So I got rid of Copy2DVD, and miraculously, everything that was broken started working again.

Nero was giving me some problems like the ones you described earlier -- the resulting disc would play fine in WinDVD and other software players, but would not play in my Philips DVD player/recorder. (My Philips can play all recordable DVD formats, and can record to DVD+R and +RW discs.) I have an NEC DVD+RW drive sold as a Memorex drive here in the U.S., and Nero 5.5.10.9 came bundled with it. I noticed on the DVD2One web site that the author of DVD2One advocates using Nero 5.5.10.13 or later!

Once I upgraded Nero to the latest 5.5.x.x release, the resulting burned discs would play correctly both on my PC and on the Philips DVD player/recorder. So I'm happy!

Bottom line, if you have a decent version of Nero, you should be OK. I hear Nero 6 works great too, but I don't feel like spending the money to get the latest Nero. I'll stick with Nero Express for now, since it works fine. But I can't in good conscience recommend Copy2DVD at all.

Maybe I should clairify my 'recommend' as well...
I have found Copy2Dvd an outstanding program in terms of both usage and wide-spread (and tested...) compatibility. I recommend it with the following provisos...
First--I have never let it install the custom ASPI layer it volunteers to (using the trusted 4.60 set from Adaptec/ForceASPI).
Second--(and this is general advice re: dvd-burning...) I have my dvd-copy stuff on a dedicated burn-boxen running XP/sp1 and little else [no connectivity or other apps]. It would be too great a loss to discover later that x-number of dvd's already burned are faulty--so I minimize potential variables/conflicts by doing so.
As for Nero...it is certainly possible to get good results. BUT, whenever one reads of someone having an 'issue', a confusion as to settings, or they buy a new player/media/burner and start having 'problems'--you will almost always see Nero in the mix. Learn to use it properly, and stay with the same procedure _and_ equipment, and you'll like it. However, C2D is the safer bet of the two.
Also, advocating 10.13 or later is not the same thing as a positive advocation/recommendation for Nero. It was only a warning not to use any version older... C2D is the only app that the D2O team actually have gone out of their way to advocate--by putting a 'hook' to burn with it right into their program.
BTW, Roxio and Prazzi are another app's some love, but many have 'issues' with.

As for me, I'm going to stick with Burnatonce. It seems to be the most compatible and hassle-free program I've tried yet. Even though I've already paid for Nero 5 and CopytoDVD, I'd rather use the freeware Burnatonce because it seems to work the best.

nero v5.5.10.42
dvd2one v1.2.3
dvddecrypter v3.1.6.0
the three best programs on the net today
i copyed over 2500 dvds no problems

wow...2,500! You own a store? Great collection!
I'm curious--why not Nero6, and also, have you not had 'issues' with newer (greater than .40) DVDD combined with D2O?
Also, how do you catalog/store so many with anything resembling convenience/'findability'? Using any carosel's and/or mega-changers?
Any opinion as to up-coming Sony 985v?

I tried nero 6 too severall times (also with the latest second release) dvd video recordings gave an error when "played in powerdvd; at the second half of the movie every time
even with udf/iso option wich I use in 5.5.10.42 (making VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS myself) I stick to the latest 5.5 for now! Perhaps it has something to do with the udf multisession option in version 6