Recently I have come across a number of disks in which the DVD is not recognized by my PC at all. An recent example is the Planet Earth series. If I put the disk in my DVD burner(s), the system will not even show that a disk is present. I don't know what causes this, but I am guessing that there is a form of copy protection that detects the presence of a DVD BURNER, and it disables the drive somehow. Pure conjecture on my part, but it seems to be consistent across a number of my computers. Here is how I got around the issue: Put the disk in a DVD drive that IS NOT a burner. I did not have that in the PC that AnyDVD is loaded on, but one of my kid's PC's has one. I shared the drive on the network, and then mapped that share to the PC that I burn with. Using AnyDVD, I specified the share as the source drive, and had AnyDVD rip the share contents to a local hard drive folder. Worked like a charm, but it took awhile. I then used DVD Shrink to split the DVD files into pieces that would fit on 4.7GB DVD's. I hope this helps forum members out. Stryder
I found this post somewhat purplexing, as I do own this series, Region 1. There is no special protection and all my burners will recognize the discs. The only problem I found was the structure and menus. I haven't back it up, still waiting for DL discs to come down in price. Summary for drive D: (AnyDVD 6.1.3.6) HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B A106 Drive (Hardware) Region: 1 Media is a DVD. Booktype: dvd-rom (version 1), Layers: 2 (opposite) Size of first Layer: 2032528 sectors (3969 MBytes) Total size: 4047583 sectors (7905 MBytes) Video DVD (or CD) label: E2938 Media is CSS protected! Video Standard: NTSC Media is locked to region(s): 1! RCE protection not found. DVD structure appears to be correct. Structural copy protection not found. Autorun not found on Video DVD. Bad sector protection not found. Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 1!
Yeah, all burners should be able to read these discs; they are only css protected. Something else is the matter--with the OP's burners, filters, busmaster drivers, or something else . . .
Remove WMP 11 might work I removed Windows Media Player 11 using this link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/wi...aspx#RollingbacktoapreviousversionofthePlayer This has fixed the issue you described above for me. I was unable to play any commercial dvd until I removed WMP 11. I believe it has something to do with the DRM. I also have a computer that has WMP 11 on it and it does not have this problem. Good Luck! I hope this works for all with this problem!!
not sure if this thread will fix my problem. I burn DVDs using anydvd and clone dvd. I use two drive a dvd reader and the burner. the reader will recognize the original dvd, but when I try to play the newly burned copy, the dirve aacts like there is nothing there. I put it back in the drive that burned it and it plays. I put in a DVD player I have and I get a no disk. I put it in another and it plays no problem. I thought this might have to do with anydvd removing the region code from the burned copy. Am I right
