I assumed taking a purchased DVD on dual layer and spliting it across two single layer disks, I left the menus on disk one and the balance of the movie on two. I think that is what you are saying so yes. One dvd-9 split across two DVD-5s. Used DVDFab for the entire operation.

That's exactly what I'm talking about but what did you use as the target when you performed the split? The hard drive or the DVD burner? I would think it would be the hard drive since Platinum creates two folders when a split is done. Doing that and using the DVD burner as the target may not have favorable results unless you get prompted to insert the second DVD-5 blank.

The movie was ripped to the HDD already as the full disk so I used the burner as the target and was prompted to insert the second disk.
I'm using 4.1.1.6 beta release.

I would think that if you use the HDD as the target you would use the "write data" function to burn each disk.

Ok I did it a different way. I used 'Split' to rip to the HDD. In the target directory, two sub-directories were created for each disc under a main directory named after the movie title. When that was done, I put a blank in the burner and and tried to burn the respective folders to a DVD-5 using both 'Full Disc' and 'Write Data'. Neither one worked successfully. It's nice that you get prompted for the discs when the burner is the target.

I'll have to try it again someday. I've already uninstalled Platinum and gone back to my tried and true method.

have you done this stuff yet?

please do the clean uninstall / reinstall.
please uninstall your USB drivers.
please update your firmware.
please download and use ImgBurn.

dvd shrink does not burn. dvd shrink uses nero or dvd decrypter. dvd decrypter was made by the same guy as imgburn. imgburn is the burning engine only updated.

as ive said these are only suggestions and sorry if you are getting frustrated. if you have a method that works for you, by all means use it.

And DVD Decrypter will not handle a lot of the newer copy protection schemes.

I did the uninstall but did not reinstall Platinum. I uninstalled all USB drivers and had XP reinstall them again and I updated the DVD burner firmware. I didn't download ImgBurn either.

I ended up having to reinstall XP because whatever happened, it was bad enough that I couldn't even burn a simple CD unless I dropped the burn speed down. The Nero logs kept showing a 'fixation error' until I dropped the speed. I still couldn't burn a DVD even after all the previous uninstalling. I got so fed up I just reinstalled XP, Nero, DVDFab Decrypter and DVD Shrink. Those were the only apps I had on the system anyway because it's dedicated to DVDs. I was back in business an hour or so later. After that I was successfully burning DVDs again.

Glad to hear you are successfully burning DVDs again.

So James has it figured out now Troy?

yeah.

well according to post #32 anyway.

http://club.cdfreaks.com/2023493-post32.html

Hi there, is there a way to merge two dvds title into one and preserve the menu selection? Some old double sided DVD having two sperate menu.

Nope...

I never got DVDFab Platinum to work beyond ripping a DVD. I never could get it to write without encountering the write error every time. I got so tired making coasters that I uninstalled it using that detailed method provided earlier. Even then I still couldn't burn a CD or DVD after that. When I used Nero to burn a CD, I got a 'fixation error' and using DVD Shrink, Nero encountered a write error as well. I'm thinking something may have been fouled up with the ASPI layer when I had Platinum installed but I can't be sure.

So I reformatted my OS partition, reinstalled XP and the other apps I mentioned in the earlier post and was running again. I don't know that I'll ever revisit DVDFab Platinum again.

Glad to hear you are successfully burning DVDs again.

never said with which programs.

besides you are still using dvdfab. and dvdfab does not burn. no matter which version you are using.

Nero, DVDFab Decrypter and DVD Shrink.

if you have a method that works for you, by all means use it

edit// seems ive read the same info from post 37 somewhere else, jk

please read the merge mode guide, by fellow member signals.

http://dvdfab.com/docs/index.php/Mai...mPlusMergeMode

ps. please start a new thread for further discussions to better help you with the questions. thanks troy

Yeah it was a real pain there for a while. I know DVDFab itself does not write to DVD media. I use to just rip. However, since DVDFab Platinum does have the ability to write, I was trying to use it to write to DVDs but it never worked reliably. If I was successful in writing to a DVD, it would not play on my set top box but it would play on my PC DVD player. Other than that, most of the time, I would get the same write error when I used the NEC burner as the target. Which resulted in numerous coasters. Platinum has the option of choosing which DVD writing engine to use and I left it at the default VSO setting. I think I chose Nero once but that didn't work either.

Anyway, it's all in the posts. I got tired of spinning my wheels.

crtguy - SPLIT is still not working for me either since PLAT ver 3 - I was one of the ones posting about this back when this issue first appeared - just tested it with Order of the Phoenix again with ver 4.1.0.2 - same problem - plays fine in a PC, but not in a standalone DVD player - keeps looping back to the main menu but movie won't play.

Using Customize to split using Advanced Title Settings has always worked for me, though. I first rip to 2 HD folders, then burn to 2 discs using FULL DISC.

jamesd3rd

Split discs won't play back in standalone players for many of us since PLAT ver 3, as I posted above, but you may have another problem, also.

You said that your NEC burner is in an external enclosure - you may need to update the firmware for the enclosure as well as the firmware for the burner.

I'm using an NEC 3500 in a Bytecc FW/USB enclosure, & could not get things to work properly until I updated the firmware for both. After that had no problems & have been using DVD FAB PLAT for quite some time now. (SPLIT worked fine until ver 4 - the program authors have acknowledged that this is an issue that hopefully they will be able to solve.)

(BTW, I was able to update the firmware for the NEC 3500 with the drive in the enclosure, with no problems - this doesn't always work, but for my setup it did. Sometimes you have to install the drive in a PC to update it.)

I have been watching this thread and decided to test the split feature. I have used other features but this is first time for split. Anyway.......

OS=XP Pro SP2+
With PP set to Disabled.
Kept Menus for both discs.
Using Split i threw in the movie "Into The Wild"
Put in a Verb MCC003 burned at 8x.
I used ImgBurn for burn engine.
Fab Plat 4.1.1.7 beta read the disc to a temp file on my hdd.
Then my already loaded Verb started to burn disc 1.
Then Fab asked for blank disc 2.

Both discs 1 and 2 played fine. No problems what so ever. Menus worked fine on both discs. I used my Toshiba HD-A3 to play them on.

Screen shot of Fab when finished is attached.

Works fine for me too Bob. Looks like you had the movie ripped to the HDD and used the optical drive as the target is that correct? Or do you have two optical drives?

Many of us have been having trouble with Split starting with PLAT ver 4. I just use Customize to split instead, so it really isn't a critical issue for me, but I wish some of the others from the old thread would report back as to whether they are still experiencing this problem. I have only seen posts from crtguy, & he is still reporting the same thing - will not play in standalone DVD players.

The software authors have acknowledged that there is a problem, so I don't believe that it is just something related to my setup. They reported it fixed a few versions back a couple of times (so apparently it wasn't fixed when they thought it was?), but I have not seen anyone else post as to whether it was fixed for them or not.

As I posted in other threads, these split discs *will* play in PC's & some standalones - they will play in an XBOX, & HD (hard disc) recorder DVD players - I believe this is because these are more sophisticated players - there is something on these discs that the plain standalone players can't read.

Bob & others - have you tried several standalone players? Bob, perhaps your Toshiba is sophisticated enough to play these discs OK.

I have always used Split to first rip to HD folders, & then burn the 2 discs using Full Disc, with no problems until ver 4. (Verbatim, 8X, VSO engine, PP enabled, Preserve Menus, Jump To Split Title on Disc 2.)

Perhaps someone could please test Split this way & see if the discs will play in plain standalone players?
(Remember, you can use RW's to test if you don't want to waste discs. )

I have recently tested Split with several different movies, all which split just fine before the problem in ver 4, & I tested the burned discs on several different brand DVD players - same result - both discs loop back to the menu & will not play movie. (I have not changed anything on my setup - hardware or software - since the problem started.)

I have only tested thru ver 4.1.0.2 - not the newer betas - I will try the new ver 4.1.2.0 & report back.

Could it be that something got corrupted for some of us when ver 4 was installed? Could the authors let us know what they found when they acknowledged that there is a problem? Did they find something that would rule out installation problems with ver 4?

Thanks so much for any help!

My hdd was only used for the temp split files yes. I used my BenQ 1655 for my source drive and my Lite-On 20A4P as target drive to burn both split discs 1 and disc 2.

Janine R, I just completed a split doing it your way with one exception, I use Taiyo Yuden premium –R disks. (I don’t miss with these) Works fine in my more sophisticated players. I have one I bought at Wal~Mart for about $30 US about the size of a Walkman on a portable TV in the back room and it plays fine on it. If indeed the software was broken it seems to be fixed now. Oh, I used DVDFab for the entire operation, I wrote the folders using the "WRITE DATA" function. I even got the Fab monkey to tell me the show was over!

Thanks 90312 - what version of DVD Fab Plat did you use? You used SPLIT MODE, not Customize, right?

As I said, that latest ver that I tested it on was 4102 - just downloaded 4120 - will test & report back.

(I used Full Disc to burn the folders to disc, as opposed to Write Data, but that shouldn't matter - it should still work - always did before using Full Disc. But have you tested using Full Disc to burn the folders to disc?)


Thanks again!

Yeah, I used 4.1.2.0.

OK - I just tested Order of the Phoenix using Split mode - latest Plat ver 4120 - sam