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farmer dan
22nd September 2003, 21:09
In my journey to exploit all the knowlege in this forum and to learn to manipulate all the software and utilities, I have read many times that before burning a DVD one should open IFOEdit and "Get VTS" before burning. People report not being able to play their burned DVD's on various players and drives while being able to play them on others. For example, "I can play my DVD in PowerDVD but not WinDVD," or "It plays fine on the PC but not on the stand alone player."

For these examples someone will post a reply that suggests, "Open your files in IFOEdit and "Get VTS." Invariably, the follow-up post is, "Thanks. It works great."

This situation seems to occur with a number of burning softwares after the DVD is manipulated or authored--even just ripped--again using differing softwares. My conclusion is, then, that some softwares which compile the VOB's and generate the IFO's "do something squirrely" (I know that this is a highly technical description of the results;) ). I've been using DVDLab and Nero 6 for my testing and one thing I noticed is a screen of vertical grey bars just before anything starts to play either on the PC or the player.

What, exactly, does IFOEdit do to eliminate this "squirreliness."

It is getting close to the time for me to burn my first masterpiece, thanks to many in this forum, and I fully intend to manipulate the IFO's before I burn. I would just like to know what I'm doing, other than just clicking on a button in a program.

oddyseus
22nd September 2003, 22:40
After manipulating the ifos, most of its pointers that show the standalone the address of the next segment to jump to r messed up. 'Get VTS Sectors' just corrects them to the proper values.

PC's r much more forgiving in this respect, figuring out by themselfs the correct address, whereas standalones rn't.

farmer dan
23rd September 2003, 22:17
Thanks, Oddyseus. I'm so new at this that I couldn't really articulate what I was thinking. You answered my question. My instincts were telling me "proprietary" where you used the term "messed up."

Again, thanks for the help.