Problem with shrink playback

BMW///M3sdn · Messages: 690 Registration: 02.11.2003

i used shrink v 2.2 several times to do a backup, and the resulting video was great! the audio was there too. the disc (burnt with nero) played famously on my pc using power dvd. the menus and extras worked flawlessly. heres the but, you knew it was coming . . .my modded (hacked bios) xbox does not recognize the disc (dvd+r and dvd+rw) nor does my apex 600a standalone, which, as many of you probably know is a fairly robust dvd player in terms of recognizable media. (cd/dvd/vcd/svcd/mp3) any suggestions? just get a new player? by the way, i can play the movie through a program on my xbox called xbmp (xbox media player) but the prog doesnt support menus and i can only play it by navigating to the disc and selecting the ifo file. thanks, falcor

J4SON · Messages: 346 Registration: 01.28.2003

like falcor, I love the quality of v2.2. That said, I just did "The Animatrix" (*movie only*), created a image with ImgTool, and burned it onto a Sony DVD+RW using my DRU500A and the resulting disc would not be recognized by the xbox (this disc has been played there numerous times before). Then I tried this disc in my Apex AD-1200 which reads anything you throw in there, and sure it enough, it played it, but when I tried to fast forward, the screen went black for about a second and then it went back to the default "APEX" blue screen. I did this process again, this time with the timer on, and I noticed that when I press fast forward, the player automatically goes to the beginning of each chapter (while still remaining at a black screen) until it reaches the last one, and then it stops. Keep in mind, this lasts like a second or less hopefully this will help you dvdshrink. As I type, I'm doing the exact same process using v2.0 --- will post results soon...

ReflexGTI · Messages: 53 Registration: 11.01.2003

just to correct myself, the media actually used was a Memorex DVD+RW

Brodee · Messages: 42 Registration: 01.21.2002

Results with version 2.0 = On Apex AD1200: same as the v2.2 On XBOX: disc was recognized and fast forwarding worked, well sort of, it only works up to 2x, once I try to go to 4x or faster, it stops playback. It does the same thing the apex does actually. PS: I'm in the process of testing this with the 1.03 version. Will post results later.

madddskillz · Messages: 630 Registration: 07.28.2003

Hi, Thanks for the report. I just checked Animatrix and what do you know, it certainly does have a strange PGC structure. Ten cells in the main title, but they play totally out of sequence. I didn't know that was allowed! This will break any 2.x version of Shrink, I'm not sure about 1.03. I will release a fix shortly!

rdayley · Messages: 315 Registration: 08.22.2003

just so you know, movie only worked flawlessly on v1.03, on both the XBOX and the apex (including fastforwarding)

MVEED3 · Messages: 89 Registration: 07.25.2002

Is this related to the enemy at the gates "multiple cells within a chapter"? So maybe I'm not a looney toon after all and wasn't imagining the freezes with 2.2?

UD///M · Messages: 2,918 Registration: 03.27.2001

check your mail...

Pani · Messages: 650 Registration: 02.26.2001

okay, just tried v2.3 and it worked perfectly, so good to be able to fastforward again. :) Congratulations dvdshrink, it worked both in my apex and the xbox

paul e · Messages: 13,006 Registration: 03.04.2002

When i was using version 2.0 i always hat to fire up ifoedit after reauthoring and press 'Get vts vectors'. After that, the dvds dvdshrink produced would play correctly.