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zminor
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Bizzare "No valid title found" issue (not what you

Post by zminor »

Hey everyone. I've been using Mediafork/Handbrake for a while and love it, works great with the new Apple TV.

I've been ripping movies non stop for a few days now, and today I encountered my first problem. After picking up Sopranos Season 1 at the shop today, I took it home and popped in the first disc and tried to start ripping it. I got "No valid title." I proceeded to MTR it, and still mediafork produced "No valid title." Tried the other discs in the set, same problem. Here's where it gets weird.

This was all on my Macbook Pro. I also have a Macbook, and just on a whim I tried to rip the same discs on there. No problem at all, all the titles appeared and all worked fine (just with Mediafork, not even the MTR rip).

I went to back to my Macbook Pro, and started to try several other discs. All produced "No valid title." All discs, even Video_TS folders, produced the same error. I even tried to insert a disc i'd ripped the day before! same error.

What the heck could be going on? I've tried deleting and reinstalling mediafork to no avail. And i don't think its a dvd player issue because its happening with the video_ts folders as well. Any ideas? :?:
cbud
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Post by cbud »

Can you play the DVDs or the VIDEO_TS folders with Apple's DVD Player software?

Sometimes it helps if you open the video in Apple's DVD Player before you start to rip. Just skip through the chapters, watching 5 seconds of each and then try to rip again.
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Re: Bizzare "No valid title found" issue (not what

Post by loyalty_anchored »

zminor wrote: This was all on my Macbook Pro. I also have a Macbook, and just on a whim I tried to rip the same discs on there. No problem at all, all the titles appeared and all worked fine (just with Mediafork, not even the MTR rip).
guys, i am seriously starting to believe that most problems are being linked to bad apple opticle drives, i have a macbook pro and i have a tone of dropped audio.

i am definitely going to invest some money in a nice external opticle drive today to run some tests with DVDs that i have not been able to rip properly.
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Re: Bizzare "No valid title found" issue (not what

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loyalty_anchored wrote:guys, i am seriously starting to believe that most problems are being linked to bad apple opticle drives, i have a macbook pro and i have a tone of dropped audio.

i am definitely going to invest some money in a nice external opticle drive today to run some tests with DVDs that i have not been able to rip properly.
The guys over at mtr swear by the pioneer drives for ripping. I got the one they suggested.
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Post by baggss »

I will agree with Pioneer drives. I bought two of the external setups linked at the MTR forum and all is well. Every non-pioneer drive I've tried has had issues, include one I bought (and then returned) from an Apple store made by Lacie. Turns out Lacie stopped using Pioneer drives.
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Re: Bizzare "No valid title found" issue (not what

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dynaflash wrote:
loyalty_anchored wrote:guys, i am seriously starting to believe that most problems are being linked to bad apple opticle drives, i have a macbook pro and i have a tone of dropped audio.

i am definitely going to invest some money in a nice external opticle drive today to run some tests with DVDs that i have not been able to rip properly.
The guys over at mtr swear by the pioneer drives for ripping. I got the one they suggested.
I must say i agree with them, I have a Pioneer DVR-111 internal in my slow desktop PC which I am thinking I can put into an external firewire enclosure and hook it up to the macbook pro for testing.

I just have this gut feeling about the hardware... i will probably create a new Hardware thread once i have the results.
gaelicWizard
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Same problem here on a MacBook with checkout from SVN

Post by gaelicWizard »

Howdy. I'm having the same "No Valid Title" error as zminor. I've got the latest checkout from SVN (April 5, 2:30 p.m.). This is happening on my MacBook. The same build works fine with the same disc in my Mac Mini.

Is there anything I can do?
gaelicWizard
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Problem Solved!?

Post by gaelicWizard »

Whoa.

cbud's suggestion to open Apple's DVD player solved the problem. I've never had this issue before. It seems mighty odd that it would fail in such a weird way.

Does anyone know why this is the deal? cbud?

Thanks,

JP
cbud
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Post by cbud »

Maybe the region on your drive was not set.
dave Seeley
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no valid title - too

Post by dave Seeley »

I've been ripping disks for my new vid ipod...and came up against the no valid title issue with Pulp Fiction. I bought the disk maybe 8 years ago? I have a pioneer 107D with 1.22 firmware update....maybe region free...can't remember.

Anyway...the disk shows up in Mediafork and Handbrake as PULP, but I get no valid title found for both the recognized disk and browsing to the video folder. I tried MTR, and get the same issue when navigating to the MTR file. Apple dvd player opens any disk I insert, so I then quit out of it at the start...then go to Mediafork. No luck on this disk.

I had no luck with Casino Royale or Memoirs of a Geisha....but it looks like those may both be zero cell problems.

Any help on the no valid title issue is appreciated...

Thanks

Dave
jncrow
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also having this problem

Post by jncrow »

I am also having this problem I will keep watching this thread to see any of you smarter guys out there can help out.
popeykd
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Post by popeykd »

I have this problem also, I've been ripping 10 dvds today for my ipod & cant get the grudge dvd to come up in the scource dvd menu. I can browse to the video folder & media fork will scan the chapters but then I get the dreaded no title error. :?:
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Post by cbud »

popeykd wrote:I have this problem also, I've been ripping 10 dvds today for my ipod & cant get the grudge dvd to come up in the scource dvd menu. I can browse to the video folder & media fork will scan the chapters but then I get the dreaded no title error. :?:
Please see this sticky.

If DVD2One cannot produce a valid title for you then you are SOL. Some DVDs are just mastered 'bad' and the tools we use cannot read the data.
Jon
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Internal Drive Problem

Post by Jon »

The last post misses the point. I too have a MBP (new) that doesn't rip ANY dvds. Meanwhile, a one year old MacBook is happily ripping away.

What sort of drives are being used by unsuccessful MBP owners? Mine is listed as a [Censored] DVD-R.
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