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luphy
30th May 2004, 08:04
Just did Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 1, Disc 1. Kept all menus/extras and only removed some subtitles/audio. The extras are basically submenus that display a summary of each episode and plays a preview of it.

DVd-RB 0.50b
Ecl
CCE 2.66
Applied Half D1 and Half Space.

No problems with build. Ran fine on my WinDVD.

When played on my standalone, the main menu is displayed correctly as well as all the submenus with the previews. The previews play fine too. Problem is, when I try to play an episode, it only plays part of that HBO white-noise intro, and then immediately goes back to the menus. On my standalone, I can select a title separately, but it tries to play chapter 1 (HBO intro), and I can't manually chose Chapter 2, Title 2 for example. If I let it play part of Chapter 1, I can't even skip forward to chapter 2.

Now the odd thing is....I can pause it in chapter 1 (HBO intro) before it hits the error and goes back to the menu...and then fast forward through chapter 1 until I hit chapter 2 (the actual episode). The episode then plays fine.

Sounds like a problem with my standalone, since it works fine in WinDVD. But I'm curious if anyone's done this disc or any other episodics and run into this strange problem. I suppose I could use another program to remove each chapter 1 from each episode...but not sure if menus will work then.

The_Flash
30th May 2004, 08:40
Same.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=76502

My sources were Season 9 discs of the X-Files. Must be something relating to the standalone.

jdobbs
30th May 2004, 15:27
That sounds a lot like a read error on the disc.

Joergen
30th May 2004, 18:46
Eventhough the bitrate thing has been dealt with, there is nothing more high bitrate than the HBO logo static where almost every individual pixel goes from black to white 60 times per second.

If the bitrate goes bonkers there maybe the player chokes and goes back to the menu?

luphy
6th June 2004, 08:17
It may very well be because of that....I don't have bitrate viewer so I can't confirm.

But I did test out the DVD on a newer, but cheaper DVD player and everything works fine. So it's definitely got something to do with my DVD player. Maybe the movie is noncompliant somewhere, but the cheaper player just ignores it.....