I hope to transfer some home VHS tapes to DVD, and play them in my Panasonic DMR E55 player/recorder.
I am using WinFast VC100 U Video Editor with a PC running Windows XP Home Edition.
The DVDs I produce will run on the PC with PowerDVD, but the Panasonic puts up an error message "Incorrectly formatted"
I have tried formatting a blank DVD on the Panasonic, then adding the VIDEO_TS folder produced by the Winfast; that DVD also runs with PowerDVD but the Panasonic says it can't find a title.
I think the Panasonic needs the video data in two different places on the disc, one for the playback and the other for the thumbnail images it produces so one can choose the appropriate recording to watch. I have tried doing this, but it still says it can't find a title.
Commercial discs have a totally different structure; they don't produce a thumbnail but they autorun, I believe by adding some info to one of the IFO files. I haven't a clue how to do that!
Can anyone please help?
I don't have that model, but I do have a Panasonic recorder and it accepts standard DVD layout.
When you added the VIDEO_TS folder, did you mean that you burned it as data or you used a burning program to author the disk.
It's my experience that simply adding the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders as data will produce an error message on my Panasonic recorder.
If you use the likes of 'IMGBurn' to copy the VIDEO_TS folder, it will add an AUDIO_TS folder and the disk should play on the recorder.
I have used ImgBurn to add the VIDEO_TS folder to my disc. Unfortunately that destroys the Panasonic formatting, so the Panasonic now says the formatting is incorrect.
I use either DVD-R or DVD-RW disks.
The RW disks that I use are either to record and erase on the PC or record or erase on the Panasonic - never mixed.
To be clear, if I record a new RW disk on the PC (to play on any machine) then that disk is erased and re-recorded only on the PC.
The same for disks recorded on the Panasonic.
I find that recording and erasing RW disks on both machines, led to early failures.
