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More options Oct 8 2009, 1:46 pm

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From: rich <r...@nohome.com>

Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:46:49 GMT

Local: Thurs, Oct 8 2009 1:46 pm

Subject: Re: UDF to DVD playable

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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.

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 though
http://www.majorsilence.com/devede
or
DVD Flick
http://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

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