PowerDVD prob. NE ideas?

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harisg

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PowerDVD suddenly stopped opening DVD movie rips from HDD. When I select: "Open DVD File on Hard Disk Drive" and choose the *.IFO file, a window comes up saying "No Disc in Drive F:" where F: is my default drive in "Default CD\DVD-ROM drive" under the "General" tab of PDVD's configuration.
NE ideas on what I should do to correct this, will be appreciated.
 
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superlamer

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Did you install any burning application lately? Power DVD uses ASPI to initialize devices, and in your case it sounds like ASPI being altered by something or drive letters being changed (under ASPI, not under explorer).
Anyway, the problem may be solded if you change the defult device letter to something else and then back to F:
 
ponzan

ponzan

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For me Power DVD can't open many files that WinDVD can, so you may try WinDVD with your problem file
 
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harisg

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My Pioeer 105SZ has been patched with the 1.33 region free f/w.

All discs I ripped (by SmartRipper) and tried to play from HD were region 2.

The same discs play perfectly directly from Pioneer. Prob arises when trying to use the movie rips.

ASPI seems valid (as the aspichk.exe included in ForceASPI 1.7 verifies).

After the above mentioned do you people still think its a region matter?

P.S. Thnx for your help people. You're great
 
ponzan

ponzan

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Have you try WinDVD as suggested ? As I said, and I'm taking about ripped DVD or other movie files from your HD, in these cases, for me, in the same system, WinDVD opens and plays fine lots of files Power DVD won't ?? Try it and tell us, if the files are not wrong WinDVD should be able to play'em
 
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harisg

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@ ponzan:

Yes m8 but to no avail. In detail:

"Source -> DVD from" folder gave me this: "The selected folder does not have valid DVD content"

while

"Source->Open Playlist->Cancel->then choosing the VOB files->Add->OK"

had half the desirable effect (managed to play the movie from HD but in spanish audio and no subtitles-although I had already specified English audio & Greek subtitles)

Could this be due to non optimal SmartRipper settings, some mistake of mine?...but on the other hand the same rip works perfectly for DVD2SVCD, which produces a great quality SVCD out of this rip
 
ponzan

ponzan

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@ harisg : It does look like a mess up in the riping proccess.
Don't know much about this, but I think you should analize the structure of your riped file with something like VobEdit and try to fix the IFO file. You'll need someone like chickenman to pay more attention here.
 
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harisg

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It's PowerDVD indeed!! @ first I thought prob could be due to the "non legal" version of my PDVD. Then this suspicion vanished when I installed a legal version that came with my new graphics card.
 

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Denexo

Denexo

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Well, it is common problem to open media files from harddisk with Power DVD, just try Win DVD 4! If you insist to want it then try to update it with the Patch 1811 (it will be in Greek too) But be sour that the whole ripping process was in n order!

Cyber Link
 
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Denexo

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Pokopiko:
I use Power DVD too, that´s why i am writing this. Actually i have only Power DVD and Win. Media Player! But try to make a playlist with differently media types, and then try to play these!
It ´ll crash , if not at the begging but for sour in the next few seconds! :( Well not always but it´s crashes are common!
 
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JoDo

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Liked PowerDVD a lot, but after upgrading and testing WinDVD it stopped to open drop-on media files. After several re-installations, finally version 4.0.0.1015 landed OK, and now PowerDVD is my #1 again.
 
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harisg

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@ Denexo: Already tried WinDVD! Koita ligo pio panw na deis ti mhnyma ebgale kai ayto.

pokopiko said:
I use PowerDVD and don't have this problem (or any other- the prog works flawlessly), but I had a HELL of a lot when owning a VIA mobo- WinDVD was surely working better. Disd you install recently any new set of busmasters?
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My mobo is SiS645DX based & as far as I can remember I added no new set of busmasters. So could it be that PDVD doesn't like SiS chipsets too?

P.S.
Power DVD causes BSOD to anoher puter @ work (which runs on NT 4.0 SP something) as soon as it accesses the DVD disc. I'm starting to believe (and this thread helped to it) that although PDVD & WinDVD have minor differences in quality the latter is more stable.
 
ChickenMan

ChickenMan

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I have not had PowerDVD on my PC for any real lenght of time, only to test it. WinDVD 4 does all I ever need and does it very well indead.

Howerver, one thing missing from all ther above is how or more importantly, WHAT you ripped to the HD. You MUST rip the DVD as a WHOLE, that EVERYTHING including folders to get DVD playback on your PC. If its just the selected VOB files you wish to play, then thats not required.

If VOB file playback has stopped, then you have installed another DVD Player, most systems will play VOB files with ONLY one DVD Player/codec installed. Uninstall wahte ever you have recently installed and try again.
 
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