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John Miller
17th August 2002, 13:46
I'm getting quite annoyed by this message !
I rip my DVD's using Smartripper in file mode.
After i ripped them, i check the rip by playing the DVD with powerDVD from my harddrive.
In about 20% of the rips the movie won't play and PowerDVD
display's the error: 'Illegal File format'.
When i use DVD2avi to look at the first VOB file associated with the main menu, it is completely black. This is always the case when i get this error message. Strange thing is that i can play the DVD from my harddrive perfeclty with the build in player in IFO edit.

Has anyone got an idea as to were this error message comes from ?

oddyseus
28th August 2002, 10:19
I can report the same thing but in my case dvd2avi works OK. Just cant watch the movie on Powerdvd.

Could it be the positioning of the files on the hard disk?

Using XP pro