re-authored dvd won't play

[Vampire_dracula]

Dear friends

I unsuccesfully browsed 5 days through the forums hoppping to find answers to my problem.

Here is what happens: on the dutch market you can more and more find (cheap) DVD's having, unfortunately, only dutch subtitles.
Using the guides on this forum (vobedit+srt2sub+ifoedit) I successfuly added back the english subs to movies like "the pianist", "the deer hunter", "in the bedroom".

Now, I'm stuck with "prizzi's honor". The re-authored dvd I got, plays (on my philips standalone player) a few seconds then jumps back a few seconds, repeates this jumping a few times and when you think it finally passed over the glitch, it jumps to the next chapter, where the jumping back and forth is repeated before jumping the to the next chapter and so on ...

I thought the blank dvd is not good enough. I tried a different brand with same results.

I then ckecked the demultiplexed components and I noticed that the video file (m2v) can not be played with media player classic (which shows an incorrect film length). Same problems with Power DVD and Realplayer (a green screen and that's all!) The only player able to play the demultiplexed file is Nero Showtime.

I thought the fault on the final dvd has something to do with this m2v file, so I repeated the process tring various demultiplexers (dvd decrypter and many others). Again, I got the same issue: the m2v file won't play with the above mentioned players

Any ideas/explanations?

Thanks a lot for helping me out!

[violao]

Perhaps it's multi-angle? How did you rip it? Have you checked Doom9 multi-angle guides?

[Vampire_dracula]

It is not multi-angle. It is a cheap 5 euros DVD, without encryption and it fits into a dvd-5 without compression

For "ripping" I initially used DVD Shrink (following the adding subtitles guide) then DVD decrypter, then Nero Recode, the robot4rip etc, all with the same "result".

What could be special about this particular DVD when all the others I worked with are perfect?

[Vampire_dracula]

Help, please!

[Vampire_dracula]

!

[Dimmer]

Some ideas:

1. Open the m2v file in TMPGEnc MPEG Tools - Merge & Cut. Save it without changes under different name and see if you can play the output in PowerDVD.

2. If yes, open the new file in MPEG Tools - De-multiplex window and demux the video stream as a new m2v. See if the new file works for you.

3. You can also try ReStream (search on download page). There are two options related to timecodes, try them both, maybe this will help.

[influenza]

See if it plays in a software player without problems.

Did you do a get vts sectors before burning BTW?

[Vampire_dracula]

Some updates:

I threw away my philips DVD player who refused to obey me!Systematicaly, after 1 hour of movie watching it used to stop spinning the DVDs. After cooling it down for a while I could watch the rest of the movie, but it drove mad. I feel so relief now knowing it in the garbage bin!!!

I told myself: if it happens with a well known brand like philips why paying the brand? I bought a dvd/divx player Jamba! (don't laugh please ... ) and .... surprise: the re-authoured DVD I was requesting help for, works perfectly in this no-name player including with my brand new english subtitles.

It still does not explain me why I could not play it with Power DVD and other software players, but as long my problem is solved, I'm happy!

Thanks a lot for the time spent to answer me, guys!

Cheers,

Vampy