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Posted by Skipai Otter on 01/26/07 08:45
"Angus Manwaring" <angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1265.616T28T12853927angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk...
> Hi,
>
> I was droning on about my Thunderbirds 40th anniversary boxed set the
> other day, and how my dvd player cannot select any of the options on the
> menu screen - no highlight to move around the various choices, nothing.
I remember a long time ago when the first R2 version of Alien came out which
was a problem with certain 1st Gen. DVD players. As in some dvd players
where unable to play the menu at all and would refuse to play the disc..
Not sure but maybe this is another one of those where someone hasn't made
the menu as they should do under the DVD spec and as such the dvd player
isn't coping with it.
Then again a firmware upgrade may sort that one out if you can find one for
your player that is.
> The shop said I could take it back, but they don't have a replacement, and
> it only cost 20 quid, so I was wondering if (until I replace my dvd
> player) if it would be possible to copy some of the files on the dvd
> disks, on to blank disks, without the selection menus, and some how
> autoplay them on my dvd player.
DVDecrypt will let you get it on the comp's hdd and dvdshrink will let you
select if you just want the video without the menu's. But if you want them
I think it will remake the menu's again which may fix the problem but you
have to shrink it down to 4.7gb unless you're rich enough to have 8.5gb
discs. But without the menu's, the video will just start up fine.
Sometimes it has to be done in getting rid of those annoying FACT adverts.
Sorry, I bought the disc's, I don't need to be forced to watch that crap
every time I want to watch something. Hence I use those programs.
> I don't know how dvd disk are made up.... but does that sound vaguely
> plausible?
>
> The disk are protected by Macrovision, that wouldn't have anything to do
> with the selection problem I suppose?
Nope, sounds like a incompatibility problem with player and disc menu
programming. It's happened before, see above :)
> BTW the original plays fine on a pc, but I don't want to watch them on a
> pc, I want to be slurping tea from the recesses of my sofa. :)
I would seriously look to see if you can get a firmware update then for your
player. Usually it's download the files, burn to a blank CD/DVD and then
place it into player for it to run and burn onto the flash chip inside. How
I upgraded the Pioneer 470 at one point.
If your player isn't chipped etc, you could try and contact your dvd player
manufacturer and see if there's an official firmware upgrade that fixes this
problem. However this happens from time to time. Not sure if it's the
people who author's/makes the disc's or the hardware companies for not
following the DVD spec 100% when making player. But usually these things
can be sorted out with a firmware upgrade. Which player do you have?
--
Skipai
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