Posted by pnguine on 03/24/06 03:04

Netmask wrote:

> Computers are far less demanding than the specifications of DVD
players, my
> guess is one of the IFO files is corrupted, enough to throw a DVD player
> into a "I won't play this!" mode... or it may be a region problem. Is your
> DVD player region free?
>
> www.videohelp.com is a good forum for specific technical help without the
> wowsers, puritans and what I call "the Christian Taliban" moralising about
> their assumptions of everybody's activities except their own! Actually I
> think they have a wank after posting one of their "tut tu" comments. (don't
> mind me I'm a complete amoral left wing liberal at the best of times)
>
what about the worst of times?

> One of the simplest authoring programs - makes "next" chapters but don't
> bother with menu's is DVDAuthorGUI. The downside is you have to demux any
> vob or mpeg files you have first - not difficult, basically it splits the
> file into 2 files a sound file and a video file. It's very quick around 9 to
> 20 minutes for a full feature length movie.
>
>

Thanks very much. That should keep me busy for a while. My plan is to
rip a dvd that I know plays in our player, then burn it without trying
anything exotic and see what happens.

Any suggestions on diagnostics? Anything out there that will make a
reasonable guess about corrupt ifos, etc. I ran it through CDCheck and
it picked out the bad vob - anything else like that?

Funny, I would have thought that the computer would be much more
demanding than the player, but then they have to make sure that you
don't watch a dvd anywhere other than where you bought it.

phil n

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