> On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:17:54 -0700, OscarLevant wrote:
> > Someone sent me a DVD that plays in my PC but not in my Sony DVD home
> > player.

> > Turns out to be a UDF file.

> > Have been playing around with DVDshrink by unchecking the Region Free
> > box and then checking all other boxes, then doing the opposite, with all
> > various in between.  No go.

> > I am sure someone has a better answer.  I have Nero 8 and 9 for burning
> > and the DVDshrink.  Any possibilities with that combo or do I need
> > another piece of software, if such a conversion is either possible.

> > Thanks for your help.

> > BT

> AFAIK all dvd_video disks are formated UDF.

> The problem could be any number of things. Possibles can be anything from:
> The disk is a DVD-R and has not been closed. - good chance of this one.
> The video is not standard DVD eg its a Divx or similar.
> The DVD player just does not like that brand of disk.

> For a solution possibly need more information mainly
> What is the structure of the disk?  
> Is there a regular video_ts folder with .ifo & .vob files?

> Assuming there is, try DVD shrink as for any other DVD.
> or
> Reauthoring might be best.
> You can use DVD Shrink, (although I prefer DVD decrypter)
> Things I would do for this,
> In dvdshrink preferences -> output files -> untick split files to 1 GB
> chunks.
> Make sure you save to an NTFS partition.

> Rip the video and choose 'To a hard disk folder'
> It should make one big vts_01_1.vob file.
> Thanks much...will try all these....
> Now use this file (rename to 'somthing.mpg' if you want) to re-author.

> Freeware for this
> DeVeDe - I used to like this but its becoming bloated and buggy, worth a
> try thoughhttp://www.majorsilence.com/devede
> or
> DVD Flickhttp://www.dvdflick.net/   might be a better bet

> For either look in the advanced settings and turn on 'copy mpeg streams'
> or similar - saves a lot of re-encoding.

> --
> rich