error attempting to open DVD

[Sharc]

When starting the Prepare I get immediately the error:
00000 00009 -- error attempting to open DVD.
- PREPARE Aborted. No source.
What could this be? It does not happen with all rips, but with the majority of rips. I haven't been able to find a rule. Playback with SW player always works fine.
DVD-RB version is 1.27.2. I would almost exclude a bad rip because I also tested with earlier rips which DVD-RB (<1.27.2) processed successfully. Reinstallation / restart etc. didn't help. Unfortunately I deleted older versions of DVD-RB so I cannot switch back and retry.

Added:
The error happens with rips on the external drive only. When I copy the folder to the local drive everything works fine. I never had this before....

[jdobbs]

It's probably a protection issue. A couple of the newer structure protection schemes aren't corrected by AnyDVD when you access the disc directly. One example I can think of is repeating, empty filenames.

Can you give me an NTSC/R1 example to try?

That module hasn't changed in many versions -- so it is unlikely only a v1.27.2 issue.

[Sharc]

I don't access the DVD directly. I rip the DVD to an external harddisk and get the error if I want to start the Prepare. I then copied the VIDEO_TS folder from the external drive to the local harddisk, and everything worked fine. Strange also that the error now even appears with older existing rips on the same external harddisk which DVD-RB processed without problems before. I really can't tell if this has anything to do with DVD-RB. I am on PAL R2. Anyway, for the time being the workaround is to rip to the local HD only, or to copy the rips from the external drive back to the local drive.

[jdobbs]

You never know, but it sure doesn't sound like a DVD-RB problem... it uses the same code to open regardless of the path. Is it a USB2 connected hard drive? I'd like to test it a little.

[Sharc]

Yes, it's an USB2 connected hard drive.
I remember vaguely that I had once a similar problem earlier. Restarting the PC or so helped in that case.

[Sharc]

It's weird. I still get this problem that RB often cannot open the DVD on an USB2 external drive. I have to copy it back to the local harddisk.
I wouldn't mention it here again if I would have this same issue with any other software.

[jdobbs]

Of course on the other hand, it also only happens on the USB drive... Does the other software that uses the drive have to read 8.5GB continually using windows file opening and closing mechanisms? Frankly DVD-RB can't even tell that it is a USB drive and does nothing different. I gotta say the odds that the problem is somewhere in DVD-RB is really, really remote.

Do you have any anti-virus software running that might be at fault? It's possible it may do something different since a USB drive is removable.

[Sharc]

It's beyond every logic.
I can burn from this drive, play the movies, re-encode with other tools......
When pressing Prepare I immediately get the "No source" error.
It even happened that I could run the prepare few times, and next time I may get the error - and from then onwards it seems to be non-reversible.
Exchanging the USB drive by another model, disabling virus SW, running FixVTS didn't help.....
I guess I have to live with this oddity of my system.

[mikenadia]

may be DGIndex related.

[jdobbs]

DVD-RB doesn't use DGINDEX. It creates the .D2V files on its own.

[Sharc]

Conversion of the external USB Drive from FAT32 (factory setting) to NTFS seems to have solved the problem finally.

[jdobbs]

Now that's interesting. I could see how that would be a problem if you tried to create an ISO -- because the drive couldn't handle a file that large, but you were getting the error during PREPARE.

Good to know.