Prob w/ "Tales of the City"/Edited DVD Database

[GoldyBear]

Hi, everyone! I just discovered this amazing program, or at least I thought it was "amazing" until my first project trimming down "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City" Disc 1 ended with two DVD coasters. After removing the Behind-the-Scenes extras and hiding their corresponding menu option + the annoying "Welcome to Barbary Lane" intro (1st attempt) and then just the Behind-the-scenes extras (2nd attempt) with DVDReMake Pro v.2.20, I shrank my much smaller DVD using DVD Shrink v3.1 and then burned it using DVD Decryptor. This all went very smoothly until I popped the DVD into my Norcent DP300 DVD player and it just wouldn't play automatically. "Okay," I thought, "as long as everything else works, I'm willing to start the DVD going manually every time." So I press play and get the FBI warning and Acorn Media logo. Then, after that, my newly-burned DVD goes to hell in a hand-basket! It just won't go to the menu. It keeps restarting the FBI warning. Only pausing during the warning and then skipping to the next chapter does it begin to play the first scene from Episode 1. I am SO flabberghasted! I checked the forums and found two topics on this in the "DvdReMake - Feedback" forum (http://cdr-zone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=561 and http://cdr-zone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=539&sid=8bba6c37174c1ff43a51dadfcb0fb65e). It seems like others are having the same problem as me but with different DVD titles. If anyone can help me to remedy this problem, then many thanks! But, anyhoo, to the second subject of this topic: I was wondering, why don't we start a database for successfully-trimmed and edited DVD-R's. You know, list the DVD titles, edition info, region, and provide a short summary of what we trimmed/edited out. Also mention the version of DVDReMake we used, etc. Just an idea. By the way, to kill three birds with one stone (uh-oh! don't mention me to PETA, folks! ), after I export a DVD from DVD ReMake, what programs do I use to test my edited DVD. By "test," I want to be able to preview the DVD to see that all the changes I made worked (the menu, main movie, extras all play as I would expect them to play on my stand-alone DVD player). Also, after shrinking the DVD with DVD shrink, how do I test the shrunken DVD (ISO files) without having to burn it first (and getting coasters)? Any advice would be helpful. I apologize if there's already a similar thread somewhere. -GoldyBear, DVDReMake newbie P.S. And please note my "newbie" status. I have a heck of a time understanding all the technobabble so could y'all please dummy-proof your suggestions. Thanks!

[DimadSoft]

Welcome to the forum.

[GoldyBear]

Thanks for your quick and kind response, DimadSoft. A male friend got me this program as a gift for my B-day. Little did I know that what I was getting was a second-hand product. Sheeesh! Shame on him for using it before passing it on! I don't mean a pox on all men, of course. Anyways, since I'm a bit short on cash at the moment, I want to know how useful the trial version of DVDReMake is. Can I actually burn an edited DVD after using it or is it necessary to purchase the program in order to export the trimmed DVD, shrink it, and then burn it? Many thanks. -Goldybear, DVDReMake Newbie

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