Problems with Men in Black and bd-rb

[drmih]

Has anyone managed a full backup of MiB Region B?

I have tried several times (as new versions of bd-rb) come out. There's never a problem reported but the discs never play. Interestingly I tried to play the orginal iso on the HDD and TMT3 doesn't work (hangs with a black screen as soon as it starts) but Powerdvd 8 does work.

One the latest version of bd-rb I did a full backup to bd-re(25) and this will work with Powerdvd 8, but not with TMT3 or on a Sony 550 or PS3, all of which hang before doing anything.

When it does play in Powerdvd with the information showing, it says it's playing Title 0/500?? This agrees with TMT3 but that hangs at that stage.

[deank]

Can you post (PM) the index.bdmv file (and movieobject.bdmv). I'm curious what's inside.

Dean

[drmih]

Can you post (PM) the index.bdmv file (and movieobject.bdmv). I'm curious what's inside.

Dean

http://www.sendspace.com/file/thrml7

Thanks

[deank]

Is there anything special (written with really-really small letters) on the cover of this BD disc?

Because I've never been able to make a compilation with over 254 titles to get accepted by normal/standard players. Playstation3 for sure accepts maximum of 254 titles (with the means I tested with). Does the original BD disc play ok in PS3?

It is possible that this title requires some of the latest FW updates or/and latest BD profile support in the HW player.

[Capsbackup]

I have made full movie backups of The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, Region A, and neither one will play the movie from ISO/Virtual Clone Drive with PowerDVD 7.3. I even burned to BD-RE and the discs do not play the movie either. The menu starts, the intro warning and picture rating plays, but as soon as it attempts to start the main movie, just a black screen and the counter does not display any time.
However, both do play back on my Sony BDP-BX1 standalone. Since I only use the computer to test playback before burning to disc, I thought BD-RB had a problem. But since the movies seem to play back on the standalone, I'm not sure what to make of it. Probably not BD-RB.

[GaPony]

It seems that software players can be "iffy" on alot of titles that are copied. I think the goal is probably to get playable copies for standalone players. Otherwise there will be a lot of tail chasing getting copies to play with all the various programs, not to mention the numerous versions available for each, and specs of the different PCs out there.

[deank]

I second that and as I always said: it is better to test with HW players, not with software ones.

The problem is that drmih said that the title won't work in his Sony and PS3.

[GaPony]

My US version of MIB copied and plays back ok... Since I have the exact same players, Sony BDP-S550 and PS3 (US versions), I wonder where that leaves us?

[drmih]

My daughter has the disc with her so I can't check the cover but I only even played it on a HTPC as I've only had the Sony 550 recently and never bothered with the kids PS3 for playing discs until this one gave me problems.

Unlike the other titles mentioned in the thread this one does nothing (I've done the Mummy series with no problems) - When you try and play it it just waits with a blank screen first up. With Powerdvd it thinks about it and then shows a MiB logo in the middle of the screen for a few seconds and then continues to the menu and is fine.

For information there are 227 files in STREAM numbered from 0000 to 00274.

**I have updated the firmware for both the 550 and the PS3 but no difference.

[deank]

@GaPony: Can you check if your files are similar to what he posted earlier (here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1298605#post1298605))

[GaPony]

@GaPony: Can you check if your files are similar to what he posted earlier (here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1298605#post1298605))

Sorry it took so long to get back with this... My MIB disc has 229 files in the STREAM folder ranging from 00000.m2ts to 00269.m2ts (All dated 4-24-2008).

In the PLAYLIST folder there are 222 files ranging from 00001.mpls to 00286.mpls (All dated 5-10-2008).

The disc was created 5-10-2008 It has a totaol of 56 folders and 1638 files for 37,772,346,011 bytes and 37,774,409,728 bytes on disc (35.1GB in either case)

I hope this helps!