chemicalfacist wrote:simco wrote:I have just started using DVD Shrink again and whilst it backs up and burns DVD no problem, when I put DVD in DVD player the player says DVD is unsupported?
This same player has and continues to play my older DVD's.
What is the problem?
I had this problem last year, after a month the dvd player stopped playing the old ones too. bought new dvd play and now all dvds play fine...
I've had
many similar problems in my 'career' of backing up my DVDs.
The only 'errors' I get when recording, is when the original is unplayable, or scratched to the point where it starts 'freezing'.
Otherwise, my DVD burner
always said the copy process was successful. No matter what!
Then it would not play the DVD it just recorded.
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FYI.
The cycle redundancy check error message is when trying to read data from a damaged DVD.
Just before it appears, your DVD drive will probably grind and whirl away and your PC may also become a little slugglish.
There is software that will "recover" the missing bits and make the DVD or ISO file whole again.
It is called CDCheck 3 and is free for personal use.
Just don't go to afterdawn to get it. It is worse than cnet.
At every click this site dumps stuff aggressively.
My PC froze even before I got to the download link.
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In my own experience:
#1 Reason Cheap media.
I used to believe all recordable CDs and DVDs were created equal. Wrong!
e.g. A backed-up CD would have a woosh! woosh! sound added to the last 4 or 5 tracks. Bummer!
A backed-up DVD would either fail to be recognized in the player, or start 'pixelating' and freezing towards the middle and stop playing altogether.
Brand-name media costs more but the extra pennies per disc is worth it tenfold or more!
Sometimes the DVDs are "on sale" at Zellers, and then I stock up. Sadly, the CDs never are.
#2 Reason can be a 'faulty' out of sync burner, or whatever.
Yup! I have one of them. By the time I installed it, and tried it, and played the results, the warranty was over.
Luckily a brand-name
"Is it live or is it ... ?" external burner came on sale so grabbed it.
So far, so good for over 2 years.
As you can see, I'm on the 'trailing' edge of technology and I like it

, but since I started using good recording media, everything plays on my computer, and although my 5 year-old cheap DVD player does not always recognize the backed-up DVD in the first try, the second try always works. Then it plays the video flawlessly.
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