HOP - black screen when movie should start

[cnjvh]

Hi all,

ANYDVD HD: 7.0.4.0 Trial
Player: TMT 5
No codecs loaded other than what TMT 5 loads

I'm using AnyDVD HD to back up movies to folders with copy protection removed. This has worked perfectly thus far.

Tried backing up HOP. The backup up process completes in about 35 minutes with no errors reported. Using default settings for BD.

- not removing any trailers, clips, etc.
- not removing region code
- not using speed menus

When I play back the movie, however, I only get a black screen - controls are non-functional.

Everything before the movie plays fine (trailers, ads, etc) with or without BD-Live enabled in the TMT5 player. If I tell TMT5 to allow internet access I get BD-live content, if I tell it not to allow Internet access, I get whatever trailers are on the disk. In both cases I just get a black screen right when the actual movie content would start.

Playing back the physical disk in the same system works perfectly.

Right now I am just using the TMT5 player by itself and not playing from within WMC (although this has been working fine so far).

Both the physical drive and the TMT 5 player are set to the US region (although the drive calls it Region 1 and the player calls it Region A).

This is a fairly new release...could this be due to AnyDVD HD being a trial? If the trial didn't have access to the right key would it backup using a possibly incorrect key or would it put up a warning and not try to complete the backup? I didn't receive any warnings when starting the backup.

Also, I noticed a .zip file and film index file present in the backup folder (seen this in a few movies actually). Could this be related?

The log file is attached.

Thanks!!

[mike_r]

When you disable AnyDVD, can you play HOP in TMT5? Did you try enabling SpeedMenus?

[cnjvh]

Originally Posted by mike_r

When you disable AnyDVD, can you play HOP in TMT5? Did you try enabling SpeedMenus?

When you disable AnyDVD, can you play HOP in TMT5?

- The folder will not play in TMT 5 with or without AnyDVD running
- The disk will play in TMT 5 with or without AnyDVD running

Did you try enabling SpeedMenus?

- No I didn't. Can I do that after the disk has been backed up to a folder already (can't try this myself at the moment as I am not at the HTPC)?

Thanks!

[James]

Originally Posted by cnjvh

When you disable AnyDVD, can you play HOP in TMT5?

- The folder will not play in TMT 5 with or without AnyDVD running
- The disk will play in TMT 5 with or without AnyDVD running

Well, in this case just don't play from folder. Either play the original disc or an .iso (mounted with Virtual CloneDrive).

[cnjvh]

Originally Posted by James

Well, in this case just don't play from folder. Either play the original disc or an .iso (mounted with Virtual CloneDrive).

Hmm playing the original disk sort of defeats the whole purpose of ripping disks. Could try the other method if need be.


As it happens I did find a workaround. I re-ripped with the Disable BD-live option checked. Problem solved. Kind of a bummer though as I have done all my disks so far without that option checked. May have to go back and doba bunch of them

[FurryGuy]

For troubleshooting and testing purposes such as what you are having to do to solve a problem sometimes requires going back to the original disc to narrow down what could be at fault.

BD playback works best if you rip as ISO so the player software sees a virtual disc layout. Playing back from folder can cause problems as you might be experiencing.