Recording Help !!!!

[spare]

Hi!

If anyone could explain how I could solve this:

I rip my DVDs to hd, pass them through DVDShrink, edit them with pgcedit, vobblanker...

Every thing works...

I'm able to playthem with PowerDVD, choosing the option "DVD on HD" (or something like that)...

Now I record the directory's content to a DVD, I record a data (not a video) DVD.

And that's the problem.
Using the same option in POwerDVD, it complaints that the DVD is not in the correct format....

Whatever...

But since i can't find a player that will play the DVD the same way as PowerDVD does form the HD, i'm stuck...

How would I solve this ???
(without having to record a DVD-Video)

Which software should i use !!

THank You !!

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Why are you intent on NOT burning a movie DVD as "DVD-Video", when this is required for proper playback?

[spare]

It's not required for proper playback !! (of a movie at least, as opposed to a DVD-Video disc)

(otherwhise i wouldn't be able to play the movie from my hard drive; the only reason i can't do it from the data DVD is because someone doesn't want me to...)

And, because:

I think the DVD-Video recording introduces "changes" to the "files " it burns, such that, if i compute a MD5 or SHA1 digest (sum) for the files on the HD, and store it in the DVD-Video along with the movie, when i try to check it (them) i get "Sorry, ERROR: what i've found is not what you expected/wanted me to find!!"

And I would like to be able to do that !!

"proper playback" is a software Only, business !!!


I think you understand what I'm talking about !!!

THanks anyway !!

Could you please take a look at my other question/thread ?????

Later... Thank you.

[setarip_old]

I think you understand what I'm talking about !!!Actually, no, I don't ;>}

Perhaps another member will...

[ilovejedd]

What's the big diff between a data DVD and a video DVD, anyway? Afaik, the only difference is video DVDs make use of the ISO9660 + UDF file system, instead of the usual ISO9660 + Joliet. I don't know if that's supposed to introduce a difference in check sums... I know that VCDs are recorded in Mode 2 XA which gets rid of extra error correction so you can record more into one CD but this is not the case with video DVDs, right?

Maybe you can try creating an ISO with ImgBurn using Build mode, mount ISO using Daemon Tools and compare files (or MD5 hash) using whatever file comparison software you use.

In any case, you can use VLC and choose Open Directory (or was it Open Folder?).

[foxyshadis]

His burning software might be reauthoring something, if it doesn't test out for compliance, or just inserting a "made by Nero" or whatever tag in front. I don't think it would though, seems fishy to me.

[spare]

Hey...

I've tried that kind of "Open Directory" option with MPC and VLC and MPlayer ...

What they do is open (play) every file, VOB file, in the directory and play any streams in them in the order they are stored there.
THey don't play the DVD (with menus etc, etc.)

THanks !

[ilovejedd]

I've tried that kind of "Open Directory" option with MPC and VLC and MPlayer ...

What they do is open (play) every file, VOB file, in the directory and play any streams in them in the order they are stored there. THey don't play the DVD (with menus etc, etc.)That's unusual (for VLC, that is). I've always been able to view interactive menus with it using Open Directory. I haven't tried Open Directory with MPC, but have you tried drag and dropping VIDEO_TS.IFO to the MPC window?

Again, you might try burning with ImgBurn. ImgBurn doesn't try to reauthor your videos unlike some commercial programs.