Works on some players only

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Hi all. Purchased it last week and I really like the look and feel of DVD Stripper,... just to sit back and watch it take control of IFOEdit is a joy to behold !!

My first project was to remove a couple of chapters from a DVD that belongs to my 4 year old (they were a bit too scary for him!). Strangely the resulting DVDR works fine on the Sharp and Panasonic DVD players at work, but NOT on either of the two Pioneer DVD players I have at home (a 355 and a 535). The Pioneers get to the missing chapter, the screenm goes black and they FREEZE... you can press the chapter skip button on the remote and that will take you to the next chapter, but both Pioneer players won't budge past that point in normal PLAY mode, no matter how long you leave them.

Any ideas about this would be greatly appreciated,... the Pioneer players will normally play ANYTHING, but they are several years old,.. the work units (Sharp and Panasonic) are only a few months old.

Cheers

 

[MackemX]

Hi

welcome to the forums , please take the time to read the thread HERE

it has something to do with the pointers within the VOB's and how the player works with them. If it is, to fix this for your Pioneer would involve a lot of processing to satisfy it enough to play back the movie with missing chapters . Maybe DS will mod the VOB's one day as I have already looked into it just last week, when another guy mentioned his Pioneer also but like I said it will involve longer processing time to update every single VOB

you have 4 players and 2 of them are known to be fussy . I had a Sony and if I made the slighest mistake it would refuse to play the DVD but I could work around it using long time consuming manual methods

this issue has nothing to do with your selections in DS, your burning method or media and there is nothing you can really do within DS to overcome it. I would find it hard to even remove a chapter manually using any DVD tool and still maintain a valid DVD to play in your Pioneer due to this issue but I'm not saying it cannot be done. I think in this case there will be a few standalones that are just too fussy to satisfy and this is hard coded into the player itself. Sadly there will be players that will limit what you can do with a DVD but I think newer players are more compatiable. They probably are as it makes good business sense due to the growth of the DVD media market

I hope this helps clear things up

 

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Thanks for your reply MackemX

In the end I have reauthored the DVD

1. DVD Decrypter in IFO mode, selected the chapters that I wanted and ripped them to one long m2v stream, and several ac3 streams (for the alternate languages which my son enjoys listening to)
2. Ripped the menus with MenuEdit
3. Reauthored the whole DVD with Encore,
and voila
the same DVD with 2 chapters less, and a G rating, that my little boy can play to his heart's content.

The whole process however took me 7 hours, so I wouldn't want to do this very often.

Still I love DVD Stripper, keep up the good work.

Cheers
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