Nero Errors (not the ifo/bup thing)

[puntloos]

First off, thank you for bringing out such a useful program. Today's DVD's are such a mess, especially for example the Disney movies that force you to watch 5 minutes worth of trailers before you can get to the root menu!

OK I also got the ifo/bup do not match error as well, but that was fixed easily by copying the IFO.

My problem though was that nero said:

"DVD-Video files reallocation failed"
"File size is not a multiple of a logical block size (2kb)"

I just ignored the warning and burned a DVD that did work in my set-top player, but what gives? Is this perhaps easily fixable by inserting some zeroes ('padding') in proper places?

 

[MackemX]

Hi and welcome to the forums

this is basically Nero being real fussy as the VOB will be 0kb that's all

if this is the only error then it should be OK as I just ignored it when I got it also

some original DVD have 0kb files and a few DVD procesisng programs actually ignore them and that ain't a good thing

 

[puntloos]

Hi and welcome to the forums

Thanks!

if this is the only error then it should be OK as I just ignored it when I got it also

True. As I said, it worked on my DVD player, but perhaps some older DVD players will have problems with this?

this is basically Nero being real fussy as the VOB will be 0kb that's all

But if that's the case the error doesn't make 100% sense.. since 0 is a multiple of 2048 (0x2048) SillyMath(tm), I know but i would be surprised if thats the case here?

some original DVD have 0kb files and a few DVD procesisng programs actually ignore them and that ain't a good thing

Just a suggestion, I didn't check this out, but could it perhaps be that the VOBs DVDstripper generated are actually the wrong blocksize? I can imagine DVDstripper just yanking out parts of the menu that I selected, and the chance that the new VOB is exactly k x 2048 is very small?

Anyway you are right though, there were some 0kb VOB files in the VIDEO_TS dir created by DVDStripper, so I guess that was the problem! In this case 2 questions remain:

1/ Is the -entire- reallocation process stopped because of this minor error? I understand that older DVD players might have issues with un-arranged DVDs, and therefor:

2/ Perhaps DVDstripper can be made to remove 0KB VOB's like in my DVD? This would probably fix the Nero-Nags?

 

[MackemX]

#1, I don't think so as it should really just ignore that error. You could try removing one of the last VOB's and see what Nero says then. It should report that it's also missing VOB's but I'm not too sure. If the original plays in the older player then I don't see why the backup shouldn't. I'm not too sure why Nero do this when DVD's can and do have 0kb files. You think they would have ignored 0kb or checked it was valid some other way

#2 removing the 0kb files actually creates non-compliant DVD's in some cases, so it's best to leave them the way it is . DVDStripper did actually remove them as DVDDecrypter did not rip them in the 1st place but then playback was affected so we decided to keep them

p.s. the 0kb files in the DS finished folder are exact copies of the original's

 

[puntloos]

OK Thanks a lot for your clear explainations! DVD's are totally weird. I've been mastering myself quite a bit (with Scenarist) and Im still confused about a great many things, even when creating multiple branching menus etc. Blah.

 

[Mr_Fixer]

First off, thank you for bringing out such a useful program. Today's DVD's are such a mess, especially for example the Disney movies that force you to watch 5 minutes worth of trailers before you can get to the root menu!

OK I also got the ifo/bup do not match error as well, but that was fixed easily by copying the IFO.

My problem though was that nero said:

"DVD-Video files reallocation failed"
"File size is not a multiple of a logical block size (2kb)"

I just ignored the warning and burned a DVD that did work in my set-top player, but what gives? Is this perhaps easily fixable by inserting some zeroes ('padding') in proper places?

puntloos, here is a sugestion and I am no expert when it comes to DVD's, but this is how I do my DVD's without any problems:

1) I use "TitleSetBlanker" & "BlankVOB" to set all my unused .vob files to 10kb files when I was using Nero and it helped in my case.

2) I stopped using Nero a good while back and swtched to CloneDVD which is faster in my book and I have never had the first problem. I still continue to use TitleSetBlanker even with CloneDVD

These are just a couple of suggestions that work for me.... GOOD LUCK