Experiencing Difficulty Using DVD RB and CCE? If So, Then Ask Your Questions Here.

@ squizzle

You may want to try playing back that DVD on your PC's DVD player, on a rare occassion something is wrong with the DVD player and it needs a cleaning. The only problem I've had was with 2 DVDs so far which were Collateral (Cruise) & The Incredibles (Pixar). I've noticed a slight pause which would remain for a good 30-65 seconds and then will continue to play fine. I find that my DVD player is the culprit and its time to get it cleaned, though I've been searching just about everywhere for a top grade DVD lens cleaner but no luck so far. ;-(

 

hey jdobbs, thx 4 all your help. my conclusion: i dont like the 2.70. i get back to my god old 2.67.00.27 and the cce patcher 0.5.7 and all works very fine.

greedings

 

I've heard that Cinemacraft is aware of the issues with the new engine in 2.70 (particularly its sensitivity on the high end) and are working them.

 

Well, I watched Blade Trinity in my computer and it played just fine, so I'm blaming my DVD player for it. Thanks for all the help everyone.

 

Are you saying the backup disc played on the PC but had problems on the standalone?

 

yep. Not big problems, just different and somewhat annoying.

 

HOPE NO ONE OBJECTS TO ME ASKING FOR SOME BASIC ADVICE WITH REGARDS TO DVD-REBUILDER...

BACKGROUND:
I HAVE BEEN BACKING UP MY MOVIES USING DECRYPTER AND SHRINK AND HAVE NOT HAD ONE PROBLEM AT ALL. THEY HAVE BEEN EASY TO USE PROGRAMS AND I HAVE CREATED RESPECTABLE COPIES. THE MORE I HAVE USED SHRINK, THE MORE I HAVE STARTED TO WONDER IF THERE WAS ANYTHING ELSE OUT THERE IN THE WORLD OF FREEWARE THAT WAS AS GOOD IF NOT BETTER. I STARTED TO DO A LITTLE READING ON DVD-REBUILDER AND DVD-REMAKE AND STARTED TO GET A LITTLE OVERWHELMED. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE HIGH QUALITY BACK UPS OF A FULL DVD-9 FORMATED MOVIE ONTO A DVD-5. FROM WHAT I HAVE READ IT SOUNDS LIKE REBUILD WILL DO THIS. IS THIS TRUE? AND IN ORDER TO USE REBUILD DO I HAVE TO BUY CCE?(FROM WHAT I HAVE READ IT SOUNDS LIKE TH TRIAL VERSION IS NOT WORTH IT) OR COULD I USE DECRYPTER WITH REBUILDER INSTEAD. I APPRECIATE ANY HELP THANKS TO WHOEVER RESPONDS

I am sorry about the caps

 

Go to www.dvd-rb.com and download the installer. It will come with the HC encoder and the QuEnc encoder (both freeware). Try those first.

I would disagree with you, though, regarding the CCE Basic encoder. I have no relationship with the company and have no "dog in the fight" -- but my experiences have been that CCE makes the best encoder on the planet. Hands down. They occasionally get "under my skin" with their constant changing of configuration settings... but it's hard to deny their quality and speed.

I would warn you, though, that while the quality you get with an encoder is truly superior, the trade-off is time. Rebuilding a full DVD can take in the neighborhood of 3 hours, and even longer on some heavy content DVDs and slower computers.

 

Dobbs:

Thank you for the response. Regarding CCE, I was refering to using the trial version. It sounds like one should bypass the trial all together and go straight to CCE Basic. Money is kind of a pinch for me so that is why I hadn't searched anywhere else prior. Also my success with Shrink and Decrypter have been good, but now I am at a point where I don't want to have to loose disc integrity in order to keep quality(something I have had to do with Shrink at times).

How much difference is there between HC&QuEnc and CCE Basic. I know you said that CCE is the best but are the other two that far behind? Or rather how do the other two compare to the encoder in Shrink? Thanks again

 

HC is probably as close as you'll get to CCE anywhere (free or not) -- but it doesn't quite match up to it in my opinion. I think you'll still see a significant difference on challenging encodes, though.

 

TMO

The trial version of CCE Basic is useless but the purchased version is excellent. As jdobbs has stated if you want to get your feet wet and try RB then there are some free compatible transcoders and encoders that do a pretty good job. Try the Rockas installer version and you won't even have to fret with setup. You can download it from here.

http://dvd-rb.dvd2go.org/

BTW, using all caps is against forum rules because it means you're shouting.

 

sorry caught myself a little late thanks guys. Last question... what are your feelings about Shrink, limitations, good, bad? Etc. Thanks

 

Lots of capability. Excellent software. Solid as a rock. But there are limits to what you can do with within-the-compressed-domain transcoding.

 

TMO

I use Shrink to explore the contents of a DVD with and somethimes I use it to pre edit and rip with, but I haven't used it to backup a DVD with since Beta testing stopped. That being said, it's as good as most commercial transcoders are, it's free, and the results are not unpleasing on discs that require a minimal amount of compression. But if you want to play with the dogs then you'll have to stop running with the puppies.

Follow the link I left and experiment a bit. Although it takes longer to encode than it does to transcode (Shrink is rather slows for a transcoder)the results are better and the process is automated enough so that you can do a couple of DVD's overnight while you're sleeping using batch processing. You only have to be there for the burn.

 

you guys are the BOMB!!! Thaks for all the 411 and FYI.

 

@jdobbs
I tried to backup Texas Chainsaw Massacre(2003) with 0.91Pro movie only, I ripped with Decrypter 3.5.4.0. As soon as I hit Backup DVD I got runtime error 5 "invalid procedure or argument". I changed back to 0.90Pro and Rebuilder had no problem.

 

Hmm... someone else mentioned another DVD that hit that error. I'll pick that DVD up today and find out what happened. That's the problem with making changes -- there's always the chance you have an unplanned effect somewhere else.

Was it the NTSC version that caused it?

 

Yeah it was NTSC

 

@Ppower

I'm confused. I went out and bought Texas Chainsaw Massacre just so I could repeat this error. I ran it on my video computer and it finished the PREPARE without incident. Could you tell me whether you have any special settings selected in DVD Decrypter? Was it ISO Mode or File Mode? How about in DVD-RB? I'd sure like to clear this up.

 

Ppower

Which encoder did you use? And if its a CCE variant, did you set the correct file path for the correct version of CCE?