Hello, I'm new to the whole afterdawn site and i had a question that maybe someone can help me out with. My question is, when i try to back up certain movies like Sin City or Eight Crazy Night, the movie backs up but when i go to preview it there is no sound; the question is am i missing something? The programs I am using to back-up my dvd's are AnyDvd, or Dvd Decrypter, or DvdFab.
Hello. Make sure you actually have sound on the DVD by opening the burned DVD in DVD Shrink or Nero Recode. If there is sound, the AC3 or DTS sound categories should have checkmarks beside them. What program are you using to reauthor your DVDs? Are you playing back the ripped files from your hard drive? Is that what you mean by preview? Are you actually burning the disks and not getting sound when played back on your computer or standalone? Sometimes playback on standalones fails from poor quality burns. Are you using good quality media like Taiyo Yuden and Verbatim and burning at a reasonable speed of 4X to 8X?
Hello, yes I always playback the movie from my harddrive before i burn them to the actual disc. Sorry, im not used to putting what i say into words. I always use Dvd Shrink to preview the movies from my harddrive and then burn them to a disc. I always make sure that the sound and such are selected. Do you think that maybe that they are just bad disc that I am backing up? Or could it be the program that im using to rip the files?
Do you get audio when you play the Backup DVD in your computer using your DVD playing software? If so it could be possible that you only have selected DTS audio and your sound system dose not have a DTS decoder in that case you would get no sound. If you have selected to back up both AC3/5.1 and DTS audio then try clicking the AUDIO button on your DVD remote. It could be possible that the DVD is playing DTS as the default audio. Pressing the Audio button should change it between audio channels that are available on the DVD.
Hi. In DVD Shrink under the Edit menu, select Preferences.... Click the Preview tab. Make sure that the "Enable video and audio preview" checkbox is marked. Next, select Stereo under the first dropdown menu for selecting the audio preview mode. It may also be the case you don't have a sound codec installed/selected for AC3 audio. Have you been able to get sound from the Shrink preview before and are you sure you don't have the sound muted? I assume when you actually burn the DVD, you get the sound. Is that correct? If the sound checkboxes are marked and there is a nonzero file size, you should get sound on the burned DVD regardless of whether or not you generate sound during the Shrink preview.
Hello, in responce to you last thread, ive backed up a "few" movies in my day. And im fairly sure that my sound is on. But in reguards to you asking my if i heard the sound on the dvd after i burn it. When i do not hear the sound on the dvd preview i do not back up that dvd. Because at the time i was not willing to waste the blank dvd. My question is do you think that it could be a safety feature that if i burn the dvd i will hear the sound?
Hi. I was more interested in whether you had ever generated sound from the preview. It wasn't clear. The fact that you generated sound before and not now is interesting. Do you get sound when you just play the DVD with Windows Media Player or whatever software you have installed for playing DVDs? Software players like PowerDVD can play the reauthored DVD from files stored on your hard drive. That'd tell you whether you have sound or not. If your DVD is an ISO image, it can be mounted as a virtual DVD with Nero ImageDrive, Daemon Tools, Alcohol 120%, and played with any software player. Here's what you might do. Go ahead and reauthor the DVD in Shrink by clicking the Backup! button but create an ISO image file on your hard disk (don't burn to disk yet). I'm assuming you're using DVD Decrypter for burning and it requires an ISO file. If you have Nero, start the ImageDrive program and mount the ISO image as a virtual DVD. Otherwise download Daemon Tools (free) and use that to do the same thing. Use WMP or whatever software you have and like to use to playback the virtual DVD. If all is well, burn it. Daemon Tools: http://www.daemon-tools.cc/ or here: http://www.filehippo.com/download_daemon_tools/ I don't preview. I've never had any problems myself getting sound on the burned DVD and I usually only keep the 5.1 and director's commentary tracks. Have you tried uninstalling DVD Shrink and then reinstalling? Maybe something got corrupted. Did you check your Shrink preferences?
Hello, the fact of the matter is it only applies to certain movie for instance "Sin City" and "From Hell" so far. Like i've just got done backing up my one movie I just got "The Toy". The video and sound previewed just fine. As I can tell maybe it is a phantom cell that my ripper is missing, you know what I mean, like a copyright extra. Do you think i should just try burn it and see or what? Or do you know anyone that has backed up those movies sucessfully? If so do you what program they used and if they had any prior problems.
Can't speak to "From Hell" but "Sin City" backed up OK with DVD Decrypter/AnyDVD/Shrink. As long as Shrink shows the checkboxes marked for the sound stream and the stream is nonzero in size, you should get sound on the burned DVD. In what form is your backed up DVD? video folder or ISO image? Nero Showtime, PowerDVD, WinDVD, and Media Player Classic (free) will all play DVD VOB files in a folder. Otherwise you'll just have to risk it and go ahead and burn. I think Shrink would have choked if there had been anything wrong with ripped files. It's pretty sensitive to out of spec files.
