I was wondering if anyone has noticed when burning certain DVDs, the copied DVD movie has a noticeable small, thin gap in the beginning of the DVD. This prevents my DVD player from playing the movie, but my computer can read it. I'm currently using both DVDXCOPY express and CloneDVD2 along with AnyDVD. It has done this with three movies so far: Darkness, White Noise, & Coach Carter. I was wondering if this was some type of copy protection from the original. Any insight on this would be grateful.
Do you mean that the other way around? Player will play it but comp will not rip it? If so this is copy protection and there are a few ways to get around it. One is to use DVD Decrypter to rip it (latest version is 3.5.4) or have anydvd or dvd43 running in the background to get rid of encryption. Don't have both running though, they don't like each other. Another is to use Shrink in reauthor mode and get rid of the nothingness in the beginning of the movie using the set start/end frames option (looks like 2 arrows facing each other).
No, the computer rips the whole movie but the player cannot read it because of this miniscule gap in the beginning of the disk. I can see on the disk where the movie should start, then there is this gap that's a hairline in width, then it's the entire movie. I'm guessing because of this gap, the player cannot read the movie yet the computer can "jump" over that gap to start the movie. I haven't tried re-burning the original again, I thought that it might be some copy-protection and didn't want to waste another good DVDR disk. I'll go ahead and try it again and hope the comp had some hiccup burning it the first time.
Those movies are copy protected, but if you can rip them then you got around that. This almost sounds as if the discs aren't finalizing. Try to use Nero to burn if you have it. Between the compressing (encoding) and burning process, close out whatever program you used to compress and open up Nero, choose burn DVD-Video files and find your VIDEO_TS folder. Pick all the files in that folder and make sure when you click the burn button that finalize disc is checked.
Here's an update, i tried re-burning Coach Carter again and it burned a perfect copy this time without the gap in the beginning. I guess my computer or the program just had a hiccup while writing. Thanks for the help guys!!!
