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I tried to create a DVD to play on my DVD player, from files ripped to my computer. The files play great on the computer, and I used dvixc to DVD to convert them to files ready to burn. Here is the problem....
They skip. All over the place. I thought I was trying to do too much at once so I redid the conversions one at a time, overnight, when on one was using the computer. I tried several programs, learing a ton of stuff in the process...none of which helped at all.
I reauthored the DVD according to the guide, using DVD shrink. I can burn one show at a time, but I can't combign shows on to one disk even though I reauthor them, picture perfect according to the guide with DVD shrink, and burn it with DVDDecrypter. I have copied programs with the DVDDecrypter before and it worked fine.
I am at my wits end, ready to toss the whole computer through the window. I have set aside three nights to watch this with Jenni, and all three of them we ended up getting all pissed off rather than having a fun night.
I even checked the disk last time I burned it, and it didn't skip at all...but now that Jenni and I want to watch it, it won't even access the first two episodes, and skips all over the place.
Please help, I am seriously pissed off and at my wits end.
Off the top of my head, I'd say its your media, esp. if if worked fine once on your player, but then didn't later. Or, it could just as easily be your player - how old is it? Does it play other burned DVD's on the same media without these problems?
Oh, and can you clarify this paragraph?
"I reauthored the DVD according to the guide, using DVD shrink. I can burn one show at a time, but I can't combign shows on to one disk even though I reauthor them, picture perfect according to the guide with DVD shrink, and burn it with DVDDecrypter. I have copied programs with the DVDDecrypter before and it worked fine."
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Actually guys, thanks for the efforts, but it is far, far simpler than that.
I had the wrong DVD in the player...or rather, I had an old, failed attempt still in there, and though I was playing the new one.
Oddly enough, once I hit the right disk slot, and threw out the old, failed disk, it worked fine.
Just for the record though, I was recording on a fairly new computer, a little over a year old but still more than powerful to run any home application I have needed, including graphics heavy video games. It is a Richo DVD-RW, but it is single layer...double layer came way down in price about 7 months after I had bought this computer.
Dvixx to DVD makes ISO files, I believe, and as I said I could read individual episodes in my home theater systems DVD player....that system was a cheapie one, but only a year old as well, and I had checked into it before buying specifically to make sure it would play DVD-r's and RW's.
Thanks again for the efforts, figures it was something that simple. lol
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What I had meant was that I have some TV shows, all in different files, and wanted to combign them on two disks. There was enough room on the disks, but I had to reauthor them so that they would play off of one disk.
If I wanted to, I could have recorded each episode on it's own disk, but that would have been a waste. I knew it wasn't a player problem because it would play some things, but not others. Upon researching this a bit, I found that DVD Shrink and DVDDecrypter worked very well as creating backup disks, but it took me a bit (and two or three guides) to figure out how to work it.
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Actually, I wasn't sure what I did different for each disk, so I could still use some ideas. I did basically the same thing, but one disk was jumpy.
Also, I hit power and the disk began playing...and the last disk I had seen was the right one, so I thought it was playing the correct one.
I can use all of the help I can get, usually, so I don't mind looking foolish, as long as I learn something. I have the Hatrack Helpers (tmp) to thank for steering me to DVDShrink and DVDDecrypter in the first place.
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I thought you had burning issues you needed to discuss. Not a DVD burning problem. Sheesh.
So, has anyone ever used this? It's like $180 cheaper than the next DVD recorder and I'm wondering why.
My husband just bought a DVD/VCR for the carriage house but he thought about buying that first DVD recorder, but decided that since the next closest one was so much more, that one would be really crappy, so he didn't buy it. I was just wondering if anyone had ever tried one.
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Kayla, I have never used that, but I would not be suprised if it worked fine, I bought an Apex DVD player at QWal-Mart for $39 about two uears ago, when all the other DVD players were at least twice as much, and was very suprised. It's two nearest competitors were in teh $90 range at that time, and they weren't even full feature DVD players, whilc the Apex was a full feature player and has never give us a problem.
When I bought a surround sound system it came with a 5 disk changer, so I gave my paernts my Apex for tehir cottage in MI. They had liked mine so much that they bought one for their house as well, so now they have two.
I figured between my PS2 and my surround sound system I was all set, since we only have two TV's. And really we only watch one of them, and the computer plays DVD's as well.
I would go look it up at Consumer Reports . . . if it is too new they might not ahve reviewed it yet though.
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And really we only watch one of them, and the computer plays DVD's as well. 
