DVD "back-up" help!!

[borateen]

I'm in a little pickle here. I received a DVD burner for Father's Day, and I decided to "back up" the DVDs we had at home, y'know, to test it out. Everything seemed to burn successfully, but when I tried to watch the backed-up DVDs, my player can't read them. I'm using DVD+Rs, and I know my player can play them, because I've done it (the DVD west sent me of the season finale of Smallville was on a DVD+R, and that played fine). These DVDs play beautifully on my computer at home, and on my work computer, but not on my home player.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

[Sheldon]

How old is your DVD player....some of the older ones have trouble with dvd-rs.

[borateen]

How old is your DVD player....some of the older ones have trouble with dvd-rs.

2 1/2 years old? The thing is, I've played DVD+R and DVD-Rs in it, and they've worked just fine. I'm having a guy at work burn a test DVD using one of my blanks, and I'm going to see if that one works in my player. I've also given him one I burned to see if it works in his home player. The one's I'm burning work in my home computer and my work computer.

GAH!

[west3man]

I'm in a little pickle here. I received a DVD burner for Father's Day, and I decided to "back up" the DVDs we had at home, y'know, to test it out. Everything seemed to burn successfully, but when I tried to watch the backed-up DVDs, my player can't read them. I'm using DVD+Rs, and I know my player can play them, because I've done it (the DVD west sent me of the season finale of Smallville was on a DVD+R, and that played fine). These DVDs play beautifully on my computer at home, and on my work computer, but not on my home player.

Any thoughts or suggestions?
I've noticed, before, that optical computer drives tend to be less picky than cd and dvd players. I wonder if it's simply a matter of recognizing the file type, associating it with a particular application, then opening the file... for the optical drives, whereas maybe the cd and dvd players require a particular type of formatting or something.

First off, lemme ask what program you used to copy/burn these commercial dvd's... What program did you use to copy/burn these commercial dvd's? :D

[borateen]

First off, lemme ask what program you used to copy/burn these commercial dvd's... What program did you use to copy/burn these commercial dvd's? :D

DVD Shrink 3.2

[west3man]

DVD Shrink 3.2No answers, so far. Here's something you're probably already aware of, but just in case...


source: http://www.dvdr-digest.com/software/software.php?file=dvdshrink

" DVD Shrink has ceased development, and this means that there will be discs that it cannot support. There are now many types of discs designed with the intention of foiling software like DVD Shrink, but if you use DVD Shrink with DVD Decrypyter, most of these problems should go away (simple because DVD Decrypter's development is on-going, and so these problems can be corrected). You can read more about these problems, a list of affected DVDs and solutions here. Alternatives one tool solutions to DVD Shrink can be found here. "

[borateen]

No answers, so far. Here's something you're probably already aware of, but just in case...


source: http://www.dvdr-digest.com/software/software.php?file=dvdshrink

" DVD Shrink has ceased development, and this means that there will be discs that it cannot support. There are now many types of discs designed with the intention of foiling software like DVD Shrink, but if you use DVD Shrink with DVD Decrypyter, most of these problems should go away (simple because DVD Decrypter's development is on-going, and so these problems can be corrected). You can read more about these problems, a list of affected DVDs and solutions here. Alternatives one tool solutions to DVD Shrink can be found here. "

Thanks! I'll look into this.