Nero Recode and AOpen 1648 AAP/Pro

[ravensheild exp]

Just upgraded my OEM version to get full working version of Nero. Have always used DVDShrink for compression and wanted to give Recode 2 a try. Have latest version of Nero and have latest firmware for Rom drive.

Problem: when i open Recode and select a dvd that is in the AOpen drive , i click on video_ts folder and hit ok and pc locks up every time, have tried several different dvds. Tried with anydvd in the background and with nothing in the background running. Recode works fine with my PX716A and SA but not with the AOpen. I can use DVDS, DVDD, Anydvd, Plextools XL with the AOpen, and have for months with no probs. Is there a compatibility problem with Recode and this drive?? I have tired uninstalling the drive and rebooting with no luck.


Any suggestions.

[cynthia]

Hi again!

Don't know if you have tried this:

Uninstall the Nero package with the uninstall file you can download here: http://www.nero.com/eng/Clean_Tools.html

Run it and restart your PC.

Download the latest files from Nero and after the installation - insert your serial number. Restart your PC.

Is the Aopen regionfree or set to a region? The disc you are feeding it with - commercial and the same region as the reader?

[ravensheild exp]

The AOpen is set to region 1, so are the commercial dvd's. I have also tried some of my other previously backed up dvd r's booktyped to dvd-rom. Any disc i try to encode with Nero Recode 2 and this drive locks down pc. I will use this tool to fully remove Nero and try again, but i think i tried that already. I can't see any reason for this drive to have a conflict with Recode, but i had drives not supported by other software in the past. I've past on this info. to Nero in hopes of getting an answer as well.

I guess, i would feel better if i could get varification from another AOpen 1648 AAP/Pro user that uses this software to encode.


This has driven me nuts for 23 days now.

[cynthia]

I have some relatives that have an Aopen DVD reader and I faced similar problems once I visited them. They only do CD burnings so I just wanted to show what they could do with a DVD and as I remember it did hang if I inserted a previously burned disc (regionfree) as source in that drive. The burner a Nec 2500 didn't faced those problems reading it as source. I rember I tried the function copy disc to disc option in Nero. I was a little bit short of time so I just used the Nec to transfer the files to the hard disk and then burned them from there.

Later I tried to see if there was a firmware update for that reader but I couldn't really figure out what model it was.

So it could very well be that the Aopen is facing problems in Nero.

The region code was set to 2 for the Aopen and no additional programs running in the background.

Also a full licensed version of Nero.

[ravensheild exp]

Okay, i used the Nero cleaning tool, rebooted and reinstalled full version, ran Recode 2 and WahLA it didn't lock up the drive(this was using a dvd r, previously backed up) then i ran a dvd 9 (commercial) and it said it was copy protected, so i started Anydvd 5.1.1.1 and it said it could not find any drives, so i uninstalled anydvd , rebooted and reinstalled it, then ran Recode 2 and it locked up my pc again using this drive, but not with my other drives.

It seems there is a conflict with the AOpen 1648, Nero and Anydvd. Using my other 2 installed drives on this pc, running Recode 2, Anydvd everything works fine............what the hay??


Now i unistall Anydvd again and Recode still locks up pc, with this drive only. So uninstall Nero and reinstall and it works fine, then install anydvd again and this drive locks again, while other drives remain fine with Recode??? I think i'll buy another Rom, for the $30, it's not worth this much time.

[cynthia]

Could also try if this program works - it's freeware so you wont loose any money. www.dvd43.com - just have AnyDVD closed while you run it.

[ravensheild exp]

thanks, i'll give it a try. if not i'm buying the shod 16p9s.

Thanks for your assistance.

[cynthia]

You have the latest firmware version 1.02 installed?

[ravensheild exp]

Yes, all my drives have latest firmware, all software have latest versions.

Just to update my progress, i uninstalled anydvd and nero, then reinstalled nero. Recode works with Aopen on unprotected dvds, then install dvd43 and now recode does not lock up anymore, it will encode any dvd 5 back up, but when i insert a copyprotected disc it gives me a warning that disc is protected??? Now dvd43 is running in the background and should remove this protection, as i have used my other drives with recode and dvd43 with the same disc and it starts the process fine, i also used the copyprotected disc and the AOpen drive with various other softwares (that do not break encryption ) and everything is fine as well. So at least system is not locking up anymore, but there is something strange going on, it seems that Recode and this drive are not compatible when a decryption software is introduced, or in the case of anydvd, if it is on you system at all.

Now i have used this drive for quite some time with DVDShrink and since Recode and Shrink have the same author and Recode is more "up-to-date" then why this issue with Recode and not Shrink??

I can use this drive with dvd43 or anydvd running in the background and use nero express burning rom with no probs, why would Recode have probs and the rest of the Nero software not?

[ravensheild exp]

Am i left to wait for a Nero Recode 2 update to address this software problem with this drive?

[cynthia]

You could always send a note to the Nero support team - they might have more info about this issue.

[ravensheild exp]

Thats what i figured i'd have to do yesterday, so i sent in one then. Just sent another updating my efforts. I will post back their response, as it seems to be a conflict with the drive and others may need answers as well.

Cynthia, thanks for your support and glad to see ya' in the DVDD forum.

They are in need of more bright minds

[ravensheild exp]

Have email Nero support 3 times over the last 5-6 days about this problem with no assistance given........??


Are they always this difficult to deal with?



When i first submitted this post i had already had the latest version of Nero , so the bug fix wasn't any good for my AOpen.

[ravensheild exp]

Just to update, have been going back and fourth with Nero support, they keep telling me that i need to update my drives firmware and i keep telling them i have an AOpen 1648 AAP "PRO"!!! which has only a 1.02 out


I contacted AOpen and they said it was a software problem.


Would just like a confirmation from someone with this drive and this software.

[aopenuser]

Same problem here

I just tested this with my new 1648 AAP/Pro and I have the same problem. Everything works fine except Recode. Please give more details of your config.

Here are mine:
- XP Pro SP2
- AMD on Abit NF7-S rev.2, with nForce Driver 5.21
- Aopen 1648 AAP/Pro, 2nd Master, runnning on UDMA 1(!), changing this to UDMA 2 gives me 100% CPU all the time
- Associated drivers: anydvd.sys. asapi.sys, elbycdfl.sys, elbydelay.sys, pxhelp20.sys

I hope there is a solution.