only DVD menu works

[fauxpas]

I use DVD shrink and burn with nero...

The shrink works fine and the burn works fine... all good... but...

I've found a common problem I have is when I playback the burnt DVD, the opening menu works fine, but when I choose to play the movie, it freezes...

any ideas?

thanks,


faux

[killingspree]

did you test the dvd before burning??

sounds to me like a bad ifo problem... perhaps something went wrong during the burn process... or you got some setting wrong!

steVe

[fauxpas]

I do a deep analysis with ever DVD...

I have 2 DVD burners on seperate computers and often they will present with the same problem.

Sometimes, when the menu comes up and I can't play the movie by pressing 'play' icon on screen, I can actually go to 'scene selection' and begin the movie from there...

If it is a setting, I have no idea which one it would be...

[brobear]

How large are the movies that cause the problems? Compression can sometimes be the cause (such as damaged files stated before). Delete all unneeded language options and sound tracks. That eases compression a bit, without having to go into re-author where you loose the menus.

Sometimes, a fix is to back off from filling the disc to capacity. The target size of shrink is 4464 MB. Dropping it back to 4375 to 4400 MB helps in some cases.

There is supposed to be an improved version of Shrink out next week.

Forgot to mention, there is a free tool, DVDInfoPro for checking disks. Some minor adware, nothing malicious. I put up with it for free use of the tool. You can find it on the net.

[fauxpas]

The DVDs in question are straight copies of which the originals are small enough not to need compression...

[brobear]

fauxpas
Sometimes the problem is with the player software. I have had backups not show the video on my pc and play on the home player. I have even had a few problems with the menus as in this case.

Have you tried playing the movie in the home entertainment center and if so, what happened there?

[fauxpas]

Yeah, I tried that, and I get same problem... the player freezes at the same point my PC does...

Most of these failed discs can be played but via scene selection, not the play icon... strange...

[brobear]

fauxpas
You just confirmed what killingspree mentioned earlier. Somewhere in the recording and copying you have damaged a command file. I doubt you will be able to get this set of files to work as they are with the play command. The easiest thing to do would be to rip new files from the original if you want it to play the way you want. The other alternative, just use the scene selection command. Take a marker and note it on the disk so you don't forget down the road.