DVDFAB will not open Stargate SG1

[signals]

Thanks for the feedback, even for an old thread it is important since it will come up using the forum search tool and other users can see the solution.

[ebarnes75]

I've experienced the same issue with the Boxset (Season 8+ not working) with both an older 8x and the newest 9x versions. Disabling the Pathplayer has it working but it's currently ripping so I cannot state on the quality. I'd suspect it would be fine. I have it ripping using a custom PS3 profile I setup. Once it's finished and tested on the PS3 I will post an update. I have not tried this on the new 9x version because I haven't set it up the way I like it yet.

Worked as normal disabling the Pathplayer.

[juminix]

not sure if this needs to stay opened for anyone else, but disabling the pathplayer was the fix for me (no custom settings needed) and all episodes came out fine (already watched them all months ago). so it can be closed for me, since no longer an issue.

[ebarnes75]

I've experienced the same issue with the Boxset (Season 8+ not working) with both an older 8x and the newest 9x versions. Disabling the Pathplayer has it working but it's currently ripping so I cannot state on the quality. I'd suspect it would be fine. I have it ripping using a custom PS3 profile I setup. Once it's finished and tested on the PS3 I will post an update. I have not tried this on the new 9x version because I haven't set it up the way I like it yet.

[signals]

It is certainly possible that there is more than one authoring version for these discs, I would suggest temporarily turning Pathplayer off to make your backups. At one time, PathPlayer got stuck in an endless loop if all the titles were below a certain time but I thought that had been fixed. On the disc I borrowed for testing the episodes are all exactly the same length and above the cutoff time. I will try to get the same disc that you have and see what results I get with Season 8.

[Norm@Home]

Norm
It is a problem on some TV series discs. However, I recently did SG1 Season 2 Disc 1 using v9 with no problem. I used Customize mode and put checks in the title boxes for each episode.

I'm really not sure but it only appears to be some run's of Stargate SG-1 that have this problem, I'm using Season 8 disc 1 as an example here but the entire Season 8 had this problem (I got it as a separate set, not the complete series) but Season 7 which I bought separately did not have this issue.

When I start DVDFab and select "Customize" then insert a Season 8 disc I still get the "Open DVD source" dialog which hangs for the same amount of time before Pathplayer times out and the dialog is dismissed. So it doesn't matter if I use Full Disc or Customize this issue still exists for any of my Season 8 discs. As far as I can tell a Full Disc copy or individual episodes copied after Pathplayer times out appears to play correctly so I can't say that the copy fails. It's just that Pathplayer has an issue with these particular disks that causes the "Open DVD source" dialog to take a really long time before Pathplayer times out.

The original poster Juminix mentioned that he was having this problem with Season 1 discs and you've mentioned that you've been testing with Season 1 discs but not having this problem. I would say that the discs you have are from a run that doesn't have this problem, just as I have Season 8 discs that have this issue but my Season 7 discs don't have the problem.

I could try making an Iso of a Season 8 disc and sending it to you for testing purposes if you think that would help.

- Norm

[signals]

Norm
It is a problem on some TV series discs. However, I recently did SG1 Season 2 Disc 1 using v9 with no problem. I used Customize mode and put checks in the title boxes for each episode.

[Norm@Home]

Have you tried turning Pathplayer off for this disk only?

Can you disable Pathplayer for a specific disc? I don't see that option anywhere except in Common Settings / DVD / PathPlayer and the choices are Disable, Enable when necessary and always enable. Both enable when necessary and always enable give me the same "Opening Source" hang problem which will eventually resolve itself with the "pathplayer total timeout" error.

I have turned Pathplayer off in order to avoid having to wait 20 to 40 minutes for Pathplayer to timeout and the Open DVD source dialog to be dismissed but it's a real nuisance to have to see if a disc has this problem, cancel the opening source dialog, change the setting to disable and start DVDFab again and then when I'm done go back and change the setting back to what I usually use which is enable when necessary.

A quote from another thread "PathPlayer allows DVDFab to scan your DVD as a DVD player would and identify playable content. The developers recommend Always Enabled". So for best results Pathplayer should be enabled.

If it's a case of some particular run of Stargate SG-1 discs that have some defect that causes this problem then I understand why the DVDFab people wouldn't want to fix this but if this problem is more widespread then it deserves some attention.

- Norm

[GregiBoy]

Have you tried turning Pathplayer off for this disk only?

[Norm@Home]

See below, it still says the same thing but please note that in the first instance of the log it took 40 minutes 12.7 seconds for Pathplayer to timeout and is this second instance it took 20 minutes 9.51 seconds.

As I mentioned in my previous post, there appears to be a Pathplayer incompatibility with some of these Stargate SG1 DVD's. The original poster also reported the same issue. Also please note that the season 7 discs that I have do not have this same problem.

DVDFab 9.0.2.6 (2013/02/21 21:18:34)

0m 00.01s: Start preload dll...
0m 00.05s: Load dll successful.
0m 00.05s: Start load fabplay dll...
0m 00.10s: Load fabplay dll successful.
0m 00.10s: Windows os type is: 13.
0m 00.10s: Transfer settings successful.
0m 00.22s: GPUAccelerate: 12351
0m 00.23s: CUDA cap: 1
0m 00.23s: Support coreavc decode: 0
0m 00.23s: Graphics info: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti : 5.0 : 2.1
0m 00.23s: Qt Translator file load success
0m 00.26s: Start get sys number.
0m 00.27s: Serial number is: 48-5b-39-0a-41-1f
0m 00.27s: Reg URL link is:
0m 00.27s: Version is: 9026
0m 00.27s: Product is: 2
0m 00.27s: Connect type is: 0
0m 00.87s: Times of connecting error is: 0
0m 00.87s: Parse string is: 2:8260762964
0m 00.87s: Parse string is: 11:8260762964
0m 00.87s: Parse string is: 20:8263532095
0m 00.88s: Parse string is: 21:8260762964
0m 00.88s: Parse string is: 1:0
0m 00.88s: Parse string is: OV:9026
0m 00.88s: Parse string is: BV:9024
0m 00.88s: Parse string is: S:f9bd03f5aecda01d287505375b727a84
0m 01.26s: End check info.
0m 01.27s: Load config successful.
0m 01.34s: Profile Manager :: Begin Load Profile
0m 01.34s: Init profile data driver sucessful.
0m 01.34s: Init GPU settings sucessful.
0m 01.34s: option dvd2dvd 1 dvd2mobile 1 bluray2bluray 1 bd2mobile 1 bd23d 1 bd2dvd 1 file2dvd 1 file2bluray 1 file2mobile 1 filemover 1
0m 01.35s: dvd2dvd:dvd2mobile:blu-ray2blu-ray:blu-ray2mobile:blu-ray23d:blu-ray2dvd:file2mobile:file2dvd:file2bluray:
0m 04.98s: Begin init preview play engine.
0m 05.00s: Init DirectShow engine successful.
0m 05.16s: Init burn engine successful.
0m 05.32s: opening drive D
0m 05.33s: opened i/o
0m 05.33s: got media type 4
0m 07.05s: got max lba 3908375
0m 07.06s: got disc type 10
0m 07.15s: type DVD-VIDEO
0m 07.15s: volume label STARGATE_SG1_V1_R1_YR8
0m 07.21s: internal path D:/VIDEO_TS/
0m 07.38s: got copyright 1 fe
0m 08.12s: got udf/iso
0m 08.49s: Profile Manager :: End Load Profile
0m 09.50s: got discinfo
0m 09.50s: pathplayer enabled
0m 09.83s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_9 cell_1 sector_0 count_2
0m 09.89s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_6 cell_1 sector_68 count_5
0m 09.95s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_1 cell_1 sector_132 count_4
0m 12.28s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_1 cell_2 sector_195 count_4
0m 12.36s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_2 cell_1 sector_656 count_6
0m 12.42s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_2 cell_2 sector_722 count_6
0m 14.81s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_2 cell_3 sector_787 count_6
0m 16.75s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_2 cell_4 sector_852 count_6
0m 18.92s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_1 cell_3 sector_263 count_4
0m 18.94s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_1 cell_4 sector_331 count_4
20m 09.51s: pathplayer total timeout
20m 12.46s: got dvdinfo
20m 12.83s: opened dvd

[CBR929]

Hi Norm@Home
Please post the internal log from the start of your attempt where it shows the version number.
I have no idea what pathplayer total timeout means.
Are you receiving read errors?
CBR929

EDIT Try using an older version of FAB 8085 found here

[Norm@Home]

Hi Norm@Home
Please post your internal log for this movie.
Thanks
CBR929

Here it is, I believe the relevant portion is "40m 12.70s: pathplayer total timeout". - Norm

20m 09.93s: opening drive D
20m 09.95s: opened i/o
20m 09.96s: got media type 4
20m 10.14s: got max lba 3908375
20m 10.15s: got disc type 10
20m 10.22s: type DVD-VIDEO
20m 10.22s: volume label STARGATE_SG1_V1_R1_YR8
20m 10.28s: internal path D:/VIDEO_TS/
20m 10.48s: got copyright 1 fe
20m 11.25s: got udf/iso
20m 12.67s: got discinfo
20m 12.68s: pathplayer enabled
20m 13.07s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_9 cell_1 sector_0 count_2
20m 13.13s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_6 cell_1 sector_68 count_5
20m 13.19s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_1 cell_1 sector_132 count_4
20m 15.55s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_1 cell_2 sector_195 count_4
20m 15.63s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_2 cell_1 sector_656 count_6
20m 15.69s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_2 cell_2 sector_722 count_6
20m 17.46s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_2 cell_3 sector_787 count_6
20m 19.78s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_2 cell_4 sector_852 count_6
20m 26.69s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_1 cell_3 sector_263 count_4
20m 26.74s: button: vts_1 menu_1 pgc_1 cell_4 sector_331 count_4
40m 12.70s: pathplayer total timeout
40m 15.78s: got dvdinfo
40m 16.15s: opened dvd

[signals]

Full Disc works also, with v8.2.2.7 or 9.0.2.6. The "opening source" is the same, the analysis is different.

[CBR929]

Hi Norm@Home
Please post your internal log for this movie.
Thanks
CBR929

[Norm@Home]

Pathplayer and Stargate SG-1 Problem

When I have a chance I'll do some more testing but I can't say with certainty what difference using "DVD Copy / Fulldisk" (what I use) and "Customize mode" (which you used) would make.

As I previously mentioned, both 8.x.x.x and 9.0.x.x had this same stuck on "Opening Source" problem with the disks I had. But I should also mention that in at least one case where I let it sit for an hour or so the problem eventually resolved itself or it just timed out, I can't be sure which and it seemed like I was able to proceed to complete the copy from there. But still, having to wait an hour for DVDFab to resolve this is less than ideal.

It was mentioned earlier in this thread that this problem could be because of dirty drives or discs; I'm using two brand new Pioneer BDR-208D drives and after the initial problem I removed the discs and gave them a really good cleaning and the problem persisted so I doubt that's an issue.

- Norm