(resolved) Pretty Basic Problems

[mlaffert]

I've just started using this program after buying it a while ago. When I try to edit out some extras form Disney's Dinosaur the exported DVD comes up with the disney logo screen (VTS2 Program Chain PCG1 and PGC2) and after it is finished 10 seconds later the DVD ends. I'm simply playing it on the PC with PowerDVD (the ripped copy that I'm reading into RM plays fine in PowerDVD). I tried exporting this without editing anything and the same thing happens. I have tried turning off AUto Bypass and setting BOV to "no BOV". Anybody got any ideas ? Also my install seems really unstable. I'm at v2.3.4. And often when I click on a element in the left hand tree view it comes up with "DvdReMake Pro.e.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program". Any ideas here ? Thanks muchly, Martin.

[NowWhereWasI]

@Martin 1. Turn Auto Bypass back ON! Typically on Mouse disc's you should hide all blocks in the previews VTS, and remove all menu button references. If you should leave any block active there it will cause problems due to jumps to other VTS titles. Do these first. 2. Unstability issues. What ver. is your o/s? What background tasks are running? Is your screen saver turned on? Any network apps open? All of these can contribute to instability issues. Look to see which of these is the culprit. I can only assume your using XP and NTFS since you stated the image works fine, however you should be using NTFS even if XP is forgiving with FAT32 partitions. Regards

[Whitespliff]

I've had that too, RM crashed sometimes. I had a virus on my cpu, after I cleaned it RM worked perfectly (as usual )

[MackemX]

[mlaffert]

Thanks everybody. Well here are my options (DVD5, cut test scenes at 5s, do not cut montions menus, Bypass on (as per NowWhereWasI - thanks), Shortest BOV 0.5s (as per MackemX - thanks), No animate domain preview. I've just tried Piglet's Big Movie (has anyone guessed that I'm copying the kid's DVDs so that they can scratch the copies to their little heart's content ). This crashes RM every time.... I open the VIDEO_TS file. Wait for it to do its processing. I can now see: - DVD + Video Manager + Video Title Set 1 + Video Title Set 2 + Video Title Set 3 + Video Title Set 4 + Video Title Set 5 I click the 'M' in Video Manager and I get my message of death. I can't take off all my apps down to a bare system to check interactions - who can ? Is there any debugging I can turn on ? Hang on a minute - is this to do with the ripper I'm using ???? Help, Martin.

[NowWhereWasI]

@Martin Well your DRM settings are good now, as far as debugging goes there are a couple of things to try. Not knowing what your system specs are you can be certain that your problem is not DRM 2.3.4 as this version is highly stable. I've seen some recent posts regarding the newest decrypter version and conflicts etc but your initial post was prior to that release. So... I would say it's safe to assume that it's a platform issue. (1.) What version of windows R U using? (2.) How much memory is installed in your machine? These bits would be helpful for any of us to know in order to be of any help. debugging??? It is not necessary to uninstall any of your software ! You can start your machine up in "safe mode" to bypass loading anything other than windows basic drivers. Your video resolution will be limited in this mode but you can still check to verify that you can at least do an edit with DRM with as much memory available as possible. One more thing comes to mind, when you d/l DRM did you save it to "desktop" or place it in it's own Folder off the root of your C: drive. Running apps from the desktop can be a prob whether it's DRM or any other app for that matter. If you don't see the shortcut arrow indicator then your running the executable from desktop. Cut and paste it on the root of C: or the root of any drive really. N.

[NowWhereWasI]

Oh BTW, you can press the F8 key to start windows in safe mode. You must start "tapping" the F8 key just after the bios splash screen. You might even hear a single beep then push da button. N.

[MackemX]

turn off the Autobypass option for now as it ignores the cell commands if there are any. This may affect your playback if the DVD has cell commands (trust me on this one ) download my NayPack extractor, http://cdr-zone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1025 and run it on your ripped files. Once it's extracted them all then try DRM again on these extracted files and see if it crashes it and let me know if it still crashes then maybe we can help fix it quicker

[mlaffert]

Thanks all that help on this one. Seems that my brainwave was correct (Thanks to MackemX for confirming that damaged ripped DVD data could be a killer). I was using 321studio's (RIP) rescue ripper (because it can skip bad blocks on the DVD). I have now used dvddecrypter (nice, BTW) on piglet and there are no issues whatsoever. I guess that I will have to work with clean DVDs in future or rely on DVDshrink (which doesn't seem to have any problems with 321's ripper). Thanks again. Martin.

[MackemX]

pleased to hear you got it working The latest version of DVDDecrypter (3.5.1.0.) is probably the best ripper at the moment. Although it's probably not to do with this issue it now has a bypass setting for corrupt sectors protection some DVD's have

[mlaffert]

It's 3.5.1 that I have just tried. Seems pretty clever to me. If I have another scratched disc, I'll try to use the sector skippping in DD. Thanks again all, Martin.

[mlaffert]

FYI.... Guess what, I had it crash again. This time usng dvddecryptor as the ripper. DRM juts wouldn't stay up with Piglet's big movie. So I left the forum alone and tried Dr Watson. Mr Watson said that it was a windows event that was stopping it rather than some user code working on the DVD structure. Every time it fell over it was in the same place. So I thought to myself, what is so special/weird about my WINDOWS setup. So I tried going from 1600x1200 to 1280x1024. Guess what....no problems whatsoever ! Have we got a buggette here or is my graphics card/driver misbehaving. I don't have issues with anything else. Kind regards to all, Martin.

[DimadSoft]

Just tested it at 1600x1200 - works like at any other resolution without problems on systems here. What kind of Windows are you running?

[mlaffert]

Hello Dimadsoft and all, Guess what, it hung up on me again at 1280 screen res. So on with my debugging..... I decided to kill off all other programs on my PC to see if it stabilised. I pretty quickly narrowed it down to the fact that I am running "JS Pager" - virutal desktop software. JS Pager turned off - No problems at all. Turn it on and instant crash (however sometimes it just works fine - wierd). This does tie in nicely with the windows event error that Dr Watson was reporting. It would be nice if this could be fixed but I guess not likely, especially as I think that JS Pager has gone out of production because I now get a 404 error when I visit their homepage ! Thanks all, Martin.

[DimadSoft]

Thanks for info.

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