doesnt burn whole movie

[HARRYFOGFISH]

having problem burning movies .using dvd decryptor latrst version and one click dvd. computer is a 900 mgz with 256 ram win98 60 gig harddrive only thing on p.c is windows and dvd decryptor and it decodes the movie and shows it as decrypted no errors when it recompresses it and burns the movie it says ithas compleded no errors but when you play it it is only 3/4 of the movie ?

[TechZ]

Give us some more details, For DVD backup of movies, DVD Shrink is an easy to use tool.

BTW, those PC specs of youre are a bit low for all that video converting

[HARRYFOGFISH]

have used dvd shrink and got the same result dvd shrink.when dvd shrink previews the movie it shows it as all there
have burnt about 50 movies using the same system that are perfectly fine.
using same type of dvd as always but it is a new spindle.

[TechZ]

OK, so what suddenly changed that only 3/4 of the movie is now being burned. or maybe its the player?

[HARRYFOGFISH]

went from earlier version of dvd decryptor and 1 click plus new windows updates

[confus-ed]

have used dvd shrink and got the same result dvd shrink.when dvd shrink previews the movie it shows it as all there...

So if the file on your hard-drive is complete, then its the burning side of things going wrong .. DVD shrink should produce you a directory with 'smaller' versions of the vobs & whatever content you choose not to strip out - which should just work in 'any old bit' of dvd player s/w as is ..

[MBatson]

Have you defragged your hard drive? If the hard drive is badly fragmented it could be causing you problems.

[TechZ]

dvd wouldnt burn properly if there was something wrong with the data

remember to verify contents too, if using Nero. And try it on a few other players.

[confus-ed]

dvd wouldnt burn properly if there was something wrong with the data.

I was just thinking that perhaps he (or the program) hadn't selected all the files for a complete movie - vobs can only be 1gb max (I think) - so if you miss say the last one (extremes always being the things that go wrong in programming, as you add 1 when you shouldn't have etc in loops) that on a 4.5 gig dvd is just about right ... Harry can prove this to himself maybe by playing the last but one vob independently & seeing if that 'coincidentally' stops at the same point as his supposedly complete movie ?

[NooNoo]

tell dvdshrink or whatever to burn to an iso, then mount it on a virtual drive to see if it's ok.

[confus-ed]

tell dvdshrink or whatever to burn to an iso, then mount it on a virtual drive to see if it's ok.

DVD shrink is just a re-encoder on its own, so it produces a directory with playable vobs in it, so no need even to make an iso.