UDF to DVD playable

Someone sent me a DVD that plays in my PC but not in my Sony DVD home
player.

Turns out to be a UDF file.

Have been playing around with DVDshrink by unchecking the Region Free
box and then checking all other boxes, then doing the opposite, with
all various in between. No go.

I am sure someone has a better answer. I have Nero 8 and 9 for
burning and the DVDshrink. Any possibilities with that combo or do I
need another piece of software, if such a conversion is either
possible.

Thanks for your help.

BT

On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:17:54 -0700, OscarLevant wrote:

> Someone sent me a DVD that plays in my PC but not in my Sony DVD home
> player.
>
> Turns out to be a UDF file.
>
> Have been playing around with DVDshrink by unchecking the Region Free
> box and then checking all other boxes, then doing the opposite, with all
> various in between. No go.
>
> I am sure someone has a better answer. I have Nero 8 and 9 for burning
> and the DVDshrink. Any possibilities with that combo or do I need
> another piece of software, if such a conversion is either possible.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> BT

AFAIK all dvd_video disks are formated UDF.

The problem could be any number of things. Possibles can be anything from:
The disk is a DVD-R and has not been closed. - good chance of this one.
The video is not standard DVD eg its a Divx or similar.
The DVD player just does not like that brand of disk.

For a solution possibly need more information mainly
What is the structure of the disk?
Is there a regular video_ts folder with .ifo & .vob files?

Assuming there is, try DVD shrink as for any other DVD.
or
Reauthoring might be best.
You can use DVD Shrink, (although I prefer DVD decrypter)
Things I would do for this,
In dvdshrink preferences -> output files -> untick split files to 1 GB
chunks.
Make sure you save to an NTFS partition.

Rip the video and choose 'To a hard disk folder'
It should make one big vts_01_1.vob file.

Now use this file (rename to 'somthing.mpg' if you want) to re-author.

Freeware for this
DeVeDe - I used to like this but its becoming bloated and buggy, worth a
try though
http://www.majorsilence.com/devede
or
DVD Flick
http://www.dvdflick.net/ might be a better bet

For either look in the advanced settings and turn on 'copy mpeg streams'
or similar - saves a lot of re-encoding.


--
rich

On Oct 8, 5:46*am, rich <r...@nohome.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:17:54 -0700, OscarLevant wrote:
> > Someone sent me a DVD that plays in my PC but not in my Sony DVD home
> > player.
>
> > Turns out to be a UDF file.
>
> > Have been playing around with DVDshrink by unchecking the Region Free
> > box and then checking all other boxes, then doing the opposite, with all
> > various in between. *No go.
>
> > I am sure someone has a better answer. *I have Nero 8 and 9 for burning
> > and the DVDshrink. *Any possibilities with that combo or do I need
> > another piece of software, if such a conversion is either possible.
>
> > Thanks for your help.
>
> > BT
>
> AFAIK all dvd_video disks are formated UDF.
>
> The problem could be any number of things. Possibles can be anything from:
> The disk is a DVD-R and has not been closed. - good chance of this one.
> The video is not standard DVD eg its a Divx or similar.
> The DVD player just does not like that brand of disk.
>
> For a solution possibly need more information mainly
> What is the structure of the disk? *
> Is there a regular video_ts folder with .ifo & .vob files?
>
> Assuming there is, try DVD shrink as for any other DVD.
> or
> Reauthoring might be best.
> You can use DVD Shrink, (although I prefer DVD decrypter)
> Things I would do for this,
> In dvdshrink preferences -> output files -> untick split files to 1 GB
> chunks.
> Make sure you save to an NTFS partition.
>
> Rip the video and choose 'To a hard disk folder'
> It should make one big vts_01_1.vob file.
> Thanks much...will try all these....


> Now use this file (rename to 'somthing.mpg' if you want) to re-author.
>
> Freeware for this
> DeVeDe - I used to like this but its becoming bloated and buggy, worth a
> try thoughhttp://www.majorsilence.com/devede
> or
> DVD Flickhttp://www.dvdflick.net/* *might be a better bet
>
> For either look in the advanced settings and turn on 'copy mpeg streams'
> or similar - saves a lot of re-encoding.
>
> --
> rich