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Originally Posted by bluefoxtim I obtained a dvd folder which was 6.88gb so obviously I needed to compress it.
After using DVDshrink many times without a hitch I thought I might try 'dvdfab' for a change after seeing so many recommendations about its speed and reliability.
So I open up the dvd folder and want everything on the disk, so I went to the FULL DISC option and compression was 74%. Went along fine and yes, much quicker than dvdshrink.
I then burnt 3 copies of it.
I have just tested one and was suprised to see that the warning screens had gone, along with a couple of trailers for other dvd's. Nice touch I thought.
BUT, It has also eaten the dvd intro. In most cases the dvd goes straight to menu anyway so this isn't a problem. Though there is a 40 second clip at the start of the dvd just before the interactive menu appears, and this clip is important to the dvd.
So I understand why DVDfab got rid of this bit, as it would have recognised it as a trailer of some sort.
What I want to know now is...why did it do this in the first place seeing as I chose 'full disc'? How can I stop this from happening in the future? And now i've wasted 3 perfectly good (and darn expensive) dvd+r's.
BTW, I am 100% sure I chose full disc and not main movie due to the output folder named 'fulldisc'.  |
I suspect the problem lies in the original file, not with DVDFab. Full Disc mode does not remove any extras, FBI Warnings, or menus. What software was used to create the file? It sounds like one (or more) of the IFO files either was not written correctly or is corrupt. If the BUP files are present, you might try renaming VIDEO_TS.BUP to VIDEO_TS.IFO (and make the current IFO the BUP) to see if that produces a better result. If the files were written incorrectly, this will have no effect. Even if you chose Full Disc, if the Play First information in the IFO is wrong it would produce the symptoms you describe. A better test would be to play the files from your HDD using
WinDVD or some other player and see if the intro stuff plays as it should. (you may have done this but didn't mention it).