Hello andmerr, Sorry about the confusion. I thought it was for me. I ain’t fooling any one. When it comes to do with anything relating to DVDs I am REALLY DUMB. Take care.
This is like Tribes. I don't know what time zone you're in but I am back but briefly... it's the equivalent of getting up in the middle of the night. To review : I should try to cxonvert VOB files to avi and see if the job will play on the computer if not in a standard dvd player, right? In between time, I want to try another job just to see what happens.
lol, Andmerr is in Ozz, i'm in UK, but we're all really in the twilight zone pls try some suggestions out so we can help you throw out your computer !
The latest is I tried a different job on a commercial dvd. I let it go on automatic for a while and took a nap. I woke to find the Benq 1620 flashing it's green light pretty fast. DVDShrink had an error screen up that said (after a lot of stats) --> Unrecoverable read error. The dvd was jammed in the drive some way so I used the front pinhole but that didn't do any good. I restarted to get access to Nero which has a soft eject option. Nero couldn't load the drive paramaters and the Benqwas still inactive. I finally jiggled some plugs on the BenQ and the tray opened. What a relief. I would hate to have the thing serviced. They charger about $20 US to get dvd's out of players around here. So I haven't done the VOB to AVI test yet. Will look at that now. Just remembered last night I looked up the program to do VOB to AVI and IIRC it is a pay for program. I'll look again and review the posts.
Was the test thrown towards me? If yes great. I know am pc dumb & illiterate, but am a fast learner. I tell you exactly what I did as follows. (But could not complete the assignment, as my pc was required for some imp. professional work. 1.Clicked on Xilisoft. 2.Than File > Add> found the location of VOB file. 3.Down in Profile selected mpeg-2. 4.Destination> Browse> Gave the path. 5.Clicked on Encode & it stared converting the VOB to windows media player compatible mpeg-2 Here is what I found up higher. Something wasn't coming together on this. I got the VOB list in a window, but returning ot the main prgram, the files didn't show up. So I never got to the encoding screen, wherever that is. I did file -> open mpeg -> select vob files Xilisoft file tree appears and I don't know where to go. I did this once but apparently it was was a lucky break. I have difficulty with software in general. It makes sense to everyone but me. Ok I have the video_ts vob files in the "Select mpeg files" window. I click ok and nothing happens. I close that window and don't know where to go next. The main title screen is inactive. At main screen, clicking on the little bitty vob tab just takes me back to the previous screen. Now I am further along and I have Input Index and Audio plus a title 1 and title 2 with check boxes plus I selected output to avi. Output folder is DVDVolume from the other job. I click the title that is 1 hr 15 minutes because it is shorter than the other one. Little red dot indicates 'encode' so I try that... The program says I can only do five minutes so I am screwed. Another big time sink. The program is not fully operational. No vob fiole that I know of is 5 minutes long. Lets try something else. That's where I am.
Xilisoft Update: The encoding process is going and I expect it to stop around five minutes. The weird part is I'm looking at the preview box and don't recognize who is being interviewed or talking on camera. Maybe it's the program developer explaining about the 5 minute rule. (?) Anyway the process isn't choking and shows about 2.8% completion of the whole job. More later. I suppose you all went to sleep by now.
@lon - i've pasted part of your very first post in this thread as i'm not convinced we're not going round in circles. - don't take this the wrong way but i fear this thread is going to go on and on in the same way for many more pages. - what version of DVD Shrink are you using ? - i asked this early on.. - right we might be winning. What was the name of the commercial movie ? - sounds good to me - again, what was he name of the commercial movie ?, could be that it has newer protection that DVD Shrink can't handle and/or you're using an old version of DVD Shrink. - if you could try Nero we might have more luck by looking at the Nero log. - hmmm.... maybe there's a jumper incorrectly set on the back of the drive or incorrect hard drive cable or something basic like that [bold]let's try something as this thread is becoming surreal[/bold] - download Nero info-tool from here - http://www.snapfiles.com/get/neroinfo.html Run it, note down the following, and paste here. Here's what mine shows - click on the drive tab, note down the firmware version click on configuration tab, note down whether ANY or ALL the DMA fields are on or off it may be worth clicking on the aspi tab, and see if it says 'installed and working properly' Please answer some of these questions and we 'might' get you sorted
- please run this disc thru dvdinfo, to a) do a mdeia info check, and b) do a crc scan and check this disc for crc errors (ie corruption). i too use Linux, but are we talking purely Win98SE throughout the thread, as this is all very confusing for me..
Xilisoft update-- final Well, I lot of learning today. I made a vob to avi and played it back in DivX without a hitch and while online answering these things. To the questions from Nero Info: Firmware version is pretty much the latest for BenQ because I updated it after purchase and I've only had it a couple weeks: Firmware B7V9 Config shows DMA on on the BenQ ASPI is installed and working properly. I noted that if this hour and 15 minute job ran it would take over 6 hours to make the avi. But I haven't got a prog in freeware to do that anyways. Hardware seems to be ok. From other question above, Pitch Black Director's Cut was the sample job that locked up my dvd burner/player. It is from the rental store so --- well anything could have happened to a rental, but it played ok in my Sony standalone player. It was a good experience learning all this. And I don't think it's surreal in the least.
lol i'm just a bit slow 2nite... pls don't take offense it's just taking a while to get you sorted.. i'm surreal too so you'll see my comments are made in good humour
Ok so we are sort of caught up. Yeah there's something quirky that effects some processes but not others. it's probably my ignorance or thisold machine trying to do a state-of-the-art task. BTW I have tried to use a public terminal where there is a printer to make Afterdawn guides and printouts. But the forums in afterdawn are locked out at my public library. I can only guess that someone is posting naughty stuff not on the library's approved list. .
naw, not yet, still think the PC is too underpowered, but hopefull original poster will come back with all the answers soon
hi yes this thread has got very confusing for me, i would recommend we start over on a new one? just me 2 cents.....
maybe, but have a look at bottom of page 2 and see if you concur that we need to cover the basics to reign this thread back in.. ??
@Rotary, looks like i missed the cafuffle earlier, it's back to you, me and Andmerr on this thread (apologies if i missed anyone). Someone on this thread went postal and got banned so it's back to us lot. @lon, you still working on finding any of those answers ?
