clonedvd2 files from HDD will not play in win7 media center

[kraut67m]

Hello,

I am very frustrated becasuse I have been spending my evenings trying to figure out why my clonedvd2 ripped files will not play in win7 media center.
I have searched with no luck.

I am using ANYDVD HD registered copy and a trial version of CLONEDVD2. The original DVD was Harry Potter--order of the phoenix (found that this was a problem DVD) so I tried cheaper by the dozen. I got the files and pointed media center to them and movie plays for a few seconds then MC comes up with a "video error--files needed to display video are not installed or are not working correctly. restart media center or reboot computer". This error comes up with the Harry potter files or cheaper by the dozen files. If I use a trial version of TMT3 it will play without audio due to not having copied the non dolby audio files.

My apologies if this is another stupid post by a dumb noob, which I am, but i am trying to learn.

Thank you for your patience

[mmdavis]

Originally Posted by kraut67m

I am using ANYDVD HD registered copy and a trial version of CLONEDVD2. The original DVD was Harry Potter--order of the phoenix (found that this was a problem DVD) so I tried cheaper by the dozen. I got the files and pointed media center to them and movie plays for a few seconds then MC comes up with a "video error--files needed to display video are not installed or are not working correctly. restart media center or reboot computer". This error comes up with the Harry potter files or cheaper by the dozen files. If I use a trial version of TMT3 it will play without audio due to not having copied the non dolby audio files.

My apologies if this is another stupid post by a dumb noob, which I am, but i am trying to learn.

Thank you for your patience

I would start first by right-clicking on the fox icon in the system tray (by the clock) and choose "Rip video to harddisk". It will default to your My Documents, but you can change that to put the folders wherever Media Center is looking for them. It will add a folder with the title of the movie that should be listed in the movie library. Click on the folder, then click play and see if it works. If it does, then there may be an issue with what Title(s) you are choosing with CloneDVD.

[mmdavis]

Just thought of something else, AnyDVD puts the Audio_TS and Video_TS folders in a folder it creates with the movie name. CloneDVD does not do this, it places separate Audio_TS and Video_TS folders. What you may need to do is create a folder with the title of the movie, then drop the Audio_TS and Video_TS folders into that folder. It would be important to do this as ALL movies have an Audio and Video_TS folder and every movie you rip will just place another set of folders there with the same name or overwrite the existing folders so you would lose that movie.

[kraut67m]

Originally Posted by mmdavis

I would start first by right-clicking on the fox icon in the system tray (by the clock) and choose "Rip video to harddisk". It will default to your My Documents, but you can change that to put the folders wherever Media Center is looking for them. It will add a folder with the title of the movie that should be listed in the movie library. Click on the folder, then click play and see if it works. If it does, then there may be an issue with what Title(s) you are choosing with CloneDVD.

Thank you for your response MMDAVIS.

I will try this tonight again after deleting all movie files created over the last few days. I may have been trying to access folders via win7 MC that were bad. I did have multiple listings of the same movie show up.

[kraut67m]

Originally Posted by mmdavis

Just thought of something else, AnyDVD puts the Audio_TS and Video_TS folders in a folder it creates with the movie name. CloneDVD does not do this, it places separate Audio_TS and Video_TS folders. What you may need to do is create a folder with the title of the movie, then drop the Audio_TS and Video_TS folders into that folder. It would be important to do this as ALL movies have an Audio and Video_TS folder and every movie you rip will just place another set of folders there with the same name or overwrite the existing folders so you would lose that movie.

Thank you again for responding.

I am aware of what ANYDVDHD does when ripping to HD and what CLONEDVD does. However because I have multiple instances of same movie showing up in MC that I may have tried a bad one.

What is baffling me is the fact that these files do play using TMT3. So I do not understand why MC is having trouble with them. Did you notice in my original post the "Video error" MC gives me after a few seconds of play?

I will give it some more effort tonight and make sure that I delete all instance of movie files that are on disk before I try again.

[kraut67m]

Originally Posted by mmdavis

I would start first by right-clicking on the fox icon in the system tray (by the clock) and choose "Rip video to harddisk". It will default to your My Documents, but you can change that to put the folders wherever Media Center is looking for them. It will add a folder with the title of the movie that should be listed in the movie library. Click on the folder, then click play and see if it works. If it does, then there may be an issue with what Title(s) you are choosing with CloneDVD.

OK this issue is NOT a CLONEDVD2 or ANYDVDHD problem. I followed the advice from MMDAVIS and the repped files would not play without the VIDEO ERROR mentioned in my other post. This problem occurred even if I tried to play the actual DVD. After seeing this I started looking at MC as being the culprit here. Sure enough after perusing the forums on 'thegreebutton.com' and going into MC--settings--audio??--turn off MC navigation and soundeffects--save restart MC. no more video error.
There was mention of some other fixes all related to audio not video that also seem to work,

Thank you I hope this will help someone else

[damnskippy]

Interesting and strange, turning off UI sounds fixes it not playing DVD's. Thanks for the info, hopefully I will never need it though.