Fast forward glitch with compression

[Racem22]

Have you guys tried taking your issue up with DVDFab support? Maybe they can help you better than we can.

And I feel you guys, I'm not experiencing the same issues, but I'm sure it's very frustrating to deal with. Also, everyone that is on the board here are all plain old users like yourself who just love the software and come here to help. When we see someone with an issue, we take the info that we have and try to help the best we can, but sometimes that's not enough. Issues and bugs crop up on a regular basis with all software, and I'm sure its particularly frustrating because I don't think the DVDFab devs have been able to reproduce your guys' issue, otherwise it probably would've been fixed already. So give them time and I'm sure they will be able to sort it out eventually. Good luck

[tapidlittle]

I feel your pain, but seriously have you read even one line acknowledging that a problem exists outside of other users who experience it?
And you have to love the posts that insinuate that something on your end is not right, or keep reiterating that the newest version might address the problem. There are other threads and posts by those who have “jumped through the hoops” (posting of logs etc.), and since nothing looked abnormal it was promptly forgotten.

To be fair, I suspect it is not worth the time and resources of the developers to address this issue. Consider that the most popular program for compression requires installing three other video utilities and some tweaks.
My advice would be to take this software for what it is - a nice decryption program and a hit or miss compressor.

I have done exactly what you mentionned, using the other software, and decrypt with DVDFAB, works fine but I would love to have a one software solution that does everything right.

[sonydude1966]

The fast forward/rewind glitch has been around a while. I'd have new versions seem to fix it, only to have the next new version re-instate it. I guess most people don't care about fast forwarding and rewinding copied media???.

[MadMike]

did they work on this issue on the beta version? is there a release note concerning this update?

I don't want to update, redo all this compressing thing, wait 6 hours, burn, and see that it's not better.

I feel your pain, but seriously have you read even one line acknowledging that a problem exists outside of other users who experience it?
And you have to love the posts that insinuate that something on your end is not right, or keep reiterating that the newest version might address the problem. There are other threads and posts by those who have “jumped through the hoops” (posting of logs etc.), and since nothing looked abnormal it was promptly forgotten.

To be fair, I suspect it is not worth the time and resources of the developers to address this issue. Consider that the most popular program for compression requires installing three other video utilities and some tweaks.
My advice would be to take this software for what it is - a nice decryption program and a hit or miss compressor.

[tapidlittle]

Update to the latest beta version, 8.0.3.5 and try again, using my steps above, also post all the available logfiles as directed in the "Help Us Help You" sticky. Thanks.

did they work on this issue on the beta version? is there a release note concerning this update?

I don't want to update, redo all this compressing thing, wait 6 hours, burn, and see that it's not better.

[Racem22]

Update to the latest beta version, 8.0.3.5 and try again, using my steps above, also post all the available logfiles as directed in the "Help Us Help You" sticky. Thanks.

[tapidlittle]

Like I said in the post above, update to version 8.0.2.3 and try them again.

Any news on this issue, I am using 8.0.2.3 and I have the fast forward issue with compressing BTTF playing with my PS3.

[Racem22]

Like I said in the post above, update to version 8.0.2.3 and try them again.

[MadMike]

The steps you outlined is exactly what i am doing, but i am still having this problem. Don't know if it matters, but i am using win 7 64-bits.

Sorry but I don’t understand why you are beating your head against a brick wall here.
There are lots of us that have experienced the exact same problem (and this is not the only thread concerning the issue). If the problem is being addressed by the developers they aren’t saying anything about it. In any case, it seems obvious that this software is not fully mature, and I would surmise that only those with higher end hardware or hardware similar to the developer, have successfully compressed without the FF issue.

May I suggest you Google for forums where people are discussing “shrinking” or “compressing” Blu-rays. I think you will find that the overwhelming majority of us who need Blu-ray compression use a freeware program. And as I mentioned above, that freeware works perfectly.

[Racem22]

Yes, I'm also on Win7 64-bit, please update to new beta version 8.0.2.3 to see if that helps.

[bigmoviebuff]

There does seem to be an issue for sure, with the number of people reporting, it can't be a coincidence. What I've always done is:

1. Rip full disk to my C: drive, and the only thing I take out is the protection, I leave all audio/subtitle tracks in, and leave setting on BD-50 so it doesn't compress Note: this step takes between 30 minutes to 60 minutes

2. Next, I select the ripped folder as the source and my E: drive as the target, still leaving setting on BD-50 so it doesn't compress, but this time I select main movie and take out all unwanted audio/subtitle tracks so what I end up with is the main movie, english hd audio, and all english subtitles(as subtitles take up little space and it's too hard to figure out which ones are the right ones to select) Note: this step only takes about 10 minutes or less

3. Then, I select that folder on my E: drive as source, and my C: drive as target, this time selecting BD-25 as output so the only thing it has to do is compress, nothing else Note: this step takes usually between 1-2 hours (depending on movie)

4. Next is burning, I run Imgburn as a standalone app, not through DVDFab, and drag compressed movie folder into it and burn Note: this step takes about 30 minutes to 45 minutes

With this method, I've never had an issue. Granted, it might take a little bit longer, but seems well worth it to me. Try this out and let me know if it helps at all. It might not, but it's worth a shot.

The steps you outlined is exactly what i am doing, but i am still having this problem. Don't know if it matters, but i am using win 7 64-bits.

[Racem22]

There does seem to be an issue for sure, with the number of people reporting, it can't be a coincidence. What I've always done is:

1. Rip full disk to my C: drive, and the only thing I take out is the protection, I leave all audio/subtitle tracks in, and leave setting on BD-50 so it doesn't compress Note: this step takes between 30 minutes to 60 minutes

2. Next, I select the ripped folder as the source and my E: drive as the target, still leaving setting on BD-50 so it doesn't compress, but this time I select main movie and take out all unwanted audio/subtitle tracks so what I end up with is the main movie, english hd audio, and all english subtitles(as subtitles take up little space and it's too hard to figure out which ones are the right ones to select) Note: this step only takes about 10 minutes or less

3. Then, I select that folder on my E: drive as source, and my C: drive as target, this time selecting BD-25 as output so the only thing it has to do is compress, nothing else Note: this step takes usually between 1-2 hours (depending on movie)

4. Next is burning, I run Imgburn as a standalone app, not through DVDFab, and drag compressed movie folder into it and burn Note: this step takes about 30 minutes to 45 minutes

With this method, I've never had an issue. Granted, it might take a little bit longer, but seems well worth it to me. Try this out and let me know if it helps at all. It might not, but it's worth a shot.

[jfrpt]

The fast forward / next chapter navigation had problems since day 1 and thats correct. My complaint goes way back in the foruns and never had a good response. The only response was to said that they (dvdfab team) didn't find any problem. Saying that i doubt that they spent more time analyzing this bug.

[bmiller]

The fast forward / next chapter navigation has been an issue since day 1. I've had the problems with my Oppo player for many months. It doesn't appear to be a problem the developers are interested in repairing at this point.

[MadMike]

I just purchased DVDFab and installed ver 8.0.2.2 and the first movie I tried copying from a BD-50 to BD-25 and the movie freezes up if I try to fast forward on my stand alone player. All of my settings are set at default on DVDFab. Is this problem still trying to be fixed or is there something that can be changed in the settings to correct the problem? There doesn't seem to be a consensus anywhere on this forum that I have found as of yet.

DVDFAB is a fine product, excellent at decryption and works beautifully on your backups that need no compression. Still it needs to be said outright that the Blu-ray compression utility of this software is flawed. I think you will find that many of us who need compression have moved on to other products. I am sure that Blu-ray compression must be a demanding and difficult task, and for that reason I don't think we will find an "all-in-one" product that works well on Blu-Ray disks for a long time.

I have personally tested numerous backups of the same movies with DVDFAB compression against probably the most popular free compression program. I had no success at all with DVDFAB in regards to this "Fast Forward With Compression Issue" (included were many software tweaks and tests with different brands and types of media). That other free programs ability to shrink or "rebuild" Blu-rays has worked perfectly.