Chain
6th January 2003, 04:47
Normally almost all DVD-R's atleast have a better chance of playing in a DVD-ROM drive than a standalone DVD player. I have found the exception.
Since practically every commercial DVD out today needs to be shrunk to fit on one disc, I normally just worry about the VIDEO_TS files and the VOB and IFO files associated with the main movie. Sometimes other VTS files are needed but most of the time not. Also the majority of movies I've copied have the main movie located in the first set of VTS files. However, lately I have noticed an increase in the main movie being located in the 5th or 6th set of VTS files.
Since the other VTS files contain special features and stuff, I would just leave them out; so I would end up with VIDEO_TS files and VTS_06_0X.VOB set. After fixing VTS sectors I would then attempt to play it in powerdvd off the hard drive and it would work fine in all cases.
After burning the DVD, I would then put it back into my DVD-ROM drive only to have the computer tell me that it was not a properly formatted disc. This happened to me a couple of times, (I actually junked the first disc), and then decided well why don't I try it on my standalone upstairs. Amazingly, it worked fine on the standalone. I then went back, added in all of the .IFO files from the missing VTS sets and reburned. Now the DVD worked on my computer and the standalone.
I really have no idea WHY this effects the computer and NOT the standalone, maybe the computer cares more about the structure of the DVD than the standalone, I dunno. Has anyone come across this before or have any idea how this would happen?
Since practically every commercial DVD out today needs to be shrunk to fit on one disc, I normally just worry about the VIDEO_TS files and the VOB and IFO files associated with the main movie. Sometimes other VTS files are needed but most of the time not. Also the majority of movies I've copied have the main movie located in the first set of VTS files. However, lately I have noticed an increase in the main movie being located in the 5th or 6th set of VTS files.
Since the other VTS files contain special features and stuff, I would just leave them out; so I would end up with VIDEO_TS files and VTS_06_0X.VOB set. After fixing VTS sectors I would then attempt to play it in powerdvd off the hard drive and it would work fine in all cases.
After burning the DVD, I would then put it back into my DVD-ROM drive only to have the computer tell me that it was not a properly formatted disc. This happened to me a couple of times, (I actually junked the first disc), and then decided well why don't I try it on my standalone upstairs. Amazingly, it worked fine on the standalone. I then went back, added in all of the .IFO files from the missing VTS sets and reburned. Now the DVD worked on my computer and the standalone.
I really have no idea WHY this effects the computer and NOT the standalone, maybe the computer cares more about the structure of the DVD than the standalone, I dunno. Has anyone come across this before or have any idea how this would happen?