Win7 Media Center won't play Some Movies on NAS drive

[mars1952]

Hi: Recently some of the movies copied to my NAS drive with DVDFab ver 8.0.3.2 will not play with Win7 Media Center. They seem to copy OK and I get no error messages. The movies will play across my home network on my XP computers with PowerDVD Ver. 6 But not with my Win7 64bit computers with Media Center/PowerDVD Ver. 9.

Sometimes I can get the movie to play on Media Center by setting DVDFab to Jump to the Main Menu. This worked with Iron Man 2 but not with Castle Season 1 Disk 3. For Castle I had to Custom record recording just the main VOB files. I had to leave out all the menus and extras.

I seldom burn my DVDs to disk. I record them to a Hard Drive and watch them with Media Center. First with MCE 2005 and now with Win7 64bit MC.

What can I do to record the entire Disk?

DVDFab internal log:
DVDFab 8.0.2.2 (2010/11/04 09:27:56)

0m 12.42s: option dvd2dvd 1 dvd2mobile 1 bluray2bluray 1 bd2mobile 1 file2mobile 1 filemover 1
0m 49.03s: detected dvd
0m 49.06s: drive G
0m 49.06s: dvd type 1
0m 49.07s: volume label H24-LP-1W1_DES
0m 49.20s: detected dvd
0m 49.23s: drive G
0m 49.23s: dvd type 1
0m 49.23s: volume label H24-LP-1W1_DES
0m 49.73s: got copyright 1 fe
0m 50.37s: got udf/iso
0m 56.07s: got discinfo
0m 56.09s: pathplayer enabled
1m 08.23s: got dvdinfo
12m 55.12s: detected dvd
12m 55.15s: drive G
12m 55.15s: dvd type 1
12m 55.15s: volume label H24-LP-1W1_DES
12m 55.18s: got copyright 1 fe
12m 55.71s: got udf/iso
13m 01.15s: got discinfo
13m 01.17s: pathplayer enabled
13m 14.00s: got dvdinfo

dvdfab_process.log: none for the correct date

dvdfab_burn_vso.log: I didn't try to burn I just copied to the Hard drive.
2010-11-04 10:18:14 ---- ******************** Log session stop 04-Nov 10:18:14.656 PID 3876********************
2010-11-04 09:28:27 Info Current Drive selected : 0:0:0 - LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1P KL05 [G] (Ide)
2010-11-04 09:28:27 Info Using Advanced SPTI interface
2010-11-04 09:28:27 Info System default language : English (United States)
2010-11-04 09:28:27 Info User default language : English (United States)
2010-11-04 09:28:27 Info DLL Version : 4.0.11.473
2010-11-04 09:28:27 Info DLL : C:\Program Files\DVDFab 8\vso_hwe.dll
2010-11-04 09:28:27 Info Version : 8, 0, 2, 2
2010-11-04 09:28:27 Info ExeName : C:\Program Files\DVDFab 8\DVDFab.exe
2010-11-04 09:28:27 Info OS : Microsoft Windows XP Professional (Build 2600: Service Pack 3)
2010-11-04 09:28:27 ---- ******************** Log session start 04-Nov 09:28:27.875 PID 3876********************

dvdfab_burn_imgburn.log: None

System Info: I record with this computer and watch on another.
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name MAIN
System Manufacturer System manufacturer
System Model System Product Name
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 47 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~2211 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A8N-SLI Premium ACPI BIOS Revision 1011-001, 12/7/2005
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name MAIN\Marshall
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 854.07 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.95 GB
Page File Space 3.85 GB
Page File D:\pagefile.sys

[mars1952]

same problem

I am having the same problem with Castle Season 2 Disk 2 and Disk 3.
Mars

[AGJ]

Logs show you are using DVDFab Version 8.0.2.2 and that is old outdated. Update to the most recent version Also this is not a DVDFab problem but more a problem with how you have your computers and NAS set up.

[mars1952]

OK it looks like I made a couple of mistakes in my original post.

I record all of me dvds to my Win7 64bit Media Center Computer. My MC computer has an 8TB RAID10 non-boot drive (4TB usable) built in that also acts as my Network Drive. That probably doesn't count as an NAS.

I have DVDFab Ver 8.0.3.2 on my MC computer and I have tried to record the DVDs listed below 3 or 4 times each using different DVDFab features to the hard drive built into the MC computer running DVDFab on the MC computer. I also have tried to record the movies listed below using this computer (specs list in first post) across my network to my MC computer the results are always the same. The only recording that will play using Media Center are the versions recorded without any menus. I have successfully recorded movies since 2005 using this same setup.

Only the movies listed below have failed.
Iron Man 2
Castle S1 D3 (Season 1 Disk 3)
Castle S2 D2
Castle S2 D3

These Movies Copied just fine using the same setup:
Castle S1 D1
Castle S1 D2
Castle S2 D1

I tried again to copy Castle S2 D3 using DVDFab Ver 8.0.3.2 on my Win7 Media Center computer to the built in hard drive no networking involved. Window media Center would not play the copy on the hard drive I got this message:
DVD Error
Windows Media Center cannot play this DVD. Restart
Windows Media Center and insert the DVD again.

Here are the DVDFab logs:
dvdfab_burn_vso.log
2010-11-06 10:56:39 ---- ******************** Log session stop 06-Nov 10:56:39.243 PID 3412********************
2010-11-06 10:38:22 Info Current Drive selected : 4:0:0 - HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW CH08LS10 1.00 [F] (Ide)
2010-11-06 10:38:22 Info Using Advanced SPTI interface
2010-11-06 10:38:22 Info System default language : English (United States)
2010-11-06 10:38:22 Info User default language : English (United States)
2010-11-06 10:38:22 Info DLL Version : 4.0.11.473
2010-11-06 10:38:22 Info DLL : C:\Program Files (x86)\DVDFab 8\vso_hwe.dll
2010-11-06 10:38:22 Info Version : 8, 0, 3, 2
2010-11-06 10:38:22 Info ExeName : C:\Program Files (x86)\DVDFab 8\DVDFab.exe
2010-11-06 10:38:22 Info OS : Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (Build 7600)
2010-11-06 10:38:22 ---- ******************** Log session start 06-Nov 10:38:22.858 PID 3412********************

dvdfab_internal.log
DVDFab 8.0.3.2 (2010/11/06 10:38:15)

0m 00.53s: option dvd2dvd 1 dvd2mobile 1 bluray2bluray 1 bd2mobile 1 file2mobile 1 filemover 1
0m 11.57s: detected dvd
0m 11.63s: drive G
0m 11.63s: dvd type 1
0m 11.63s: volume label CA2-0N-NT3.1_DES
0m 16.98s: got copyright 1 f6
0m 17.39s: got udf/iso
0m 24.44s: got discinfo
0m 24.55s: pathplayer enabled
0m 41.82s: got dvdinfo

dvdfab_process.log None for this date and time.

System Info:

Other OS Description Windows 7 64 bitOS Manufacturer Microsoft CorporationSystem Name MEDIA CENTER
System Manufacturer System manufacturer
System Model System Product Name
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor, 3400 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0602, 1/7/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
User Name **********
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.74 GB
Available Physical Memory 5.93 GB
Total Virtual Memory 15.5 GB
Available Virtual Memory 13.2 GB
Page File Space 7.74 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

There must be something different about the disks that won’t copy since full disk copy doesn’t no matter how many times I try. Other disks copy with no problem.

[mars1952]

I finally got Castle season 2 disk 2 to copy after trying about 12 times.
I set PathPlayer to:
Scan cells less than 600 minutes and
Scan one VOBU every 1 VOBU.
It took over two hours and the picture is not as good as usual but now it will play in Media Center.
I would like to know if anyone else managed to copy this successfully.