|
Copying Panasonic DVD Recorder Disks
|
|
|
gbb
Newbie
|
8. May 2003 @ 07:57 |
Link to this message
|
|
I am trying to copy video recorded on a Panasonic DVD recorder on DVD-R discs. The video is original video from an osprey webcam ( I am webmaster for www.ospreywatch.co.uk). I have a copy of MYdvd 4 but it does not seem to recognise the files. I have finalised the disc and have been able to play it on my laptop but on my desktop which has both DVD Rom and a Pioneer DVR-105 recorder which uses DVD-R disks it will show me the files but wont play through Sonic MyDVD4.
Any ideas gratefully recieved.
Regards
Gareth
|
|
Advertisement
|
 |
|
|
Moderator
3 product reviews
|
8. May 2003 @ 17:30 |
Link to this message
|
Quote:
I have a copy of MYdvd 4 but it does not seem to recognise the files
what are these files...mpg / VOB .IFO .BUP ??
ie: DVD compliant
peace
|
|
gbb
Newbie
|
8. May 2003 @ 22:55 |
Link to this message
|
|
Thanks for offering to help.
The files are saved by the DVD Recorder in a single directory on the DVD called VIDEO_TS. Within this directory each piece of video has three seperate files, .VOB, .BUP and .IFO. Interestingly each group of 3 files is not named exactly the same . The .BUP and .IFO files are eg VTS_04_0.BUP and VTS_04_0.IFO but the VOB file is named differently eg VTS_04_1.VOB.
I hope this helps.
Regards
Gareth
Gareth Browning
Webmaster & Forester
www.ospreywatch.co.uk
|
Moderator
3 product reviews
|
9. May 2003 @ 05:38 |
Link to this message
|
|
Well you seem to have everything in place okay.
So I'd now suggest you try burning with Nero Burning Rom.
Open Nero (let the Wizard guide you)
DVD
Compile a new DVD
Other DVD Formats
DVD-Video
Finish
Click on the red VIDEO_TS Folder
Drag & drop all files (.BUP .VOB .IFO) over
Burn !!
|
|
jsnkc28
Junior Member
|
9. May 2003 @ 09:36 |
Link to this message
|
|
All you have to do is record on the deck, then DON'T finalise the disc. Copy the files to your hard drive and change the file extension to a .m2v file, then you can load them up in TMPGEnc and encode them to a MPEG.
|
Moderator
3 product reviews
|
9. May 2003 @ 11:38 |
Link to this message
|
|
jsnkc28
If he has .VOB .IFO .BUP files why would he want to encode to a .m2v file ?
The files are burnable straight off , no need to wait for hours of encoding for absolutely no reason
|
|
baabaa
AfterDawn Addict
|
10. May 2003 @ 00:11 |
Link to this message
|
|
I have an old copy of Mydvd, ver 3 I think.
These are authoring programs and basically they will transcode (convert) MPEGS to VOB/IFO/BUP files to make compliant dvd's.
I am pretty sure they DO NOT process VOB/IFO/BUP files as they are looking for MPEGS
If you have VOB/IFO/BUP files already on the dvd-r, all you need to do is follow the HERBSMAN, cos all you have is basically a data dvd which is dvd compliant, so you just want to transfer from 1 to another.
...............PIO is no go, DMA all the way...............
Beware of the Pixies - they move in over night and turn your life upside down
|
|
gbb
Newbie
|
12. May 2003 @ 03:59 |
Link to this message
|
|
Thanks for everyones help. In the ned the shop where I bought the pc from supplied a copy of Power DVD. This has enabled me to both play the DVD's without a problem and enabled windows xp moviemaker to recognise the dvd's edit and splice. "MyDVD" continued to not recognise the DVD and so I have removed it.
Gareth Browning
Webmaster & Forester
www.ospreywatch.co.uk
|
Moderator
3 product reviews
|
12. May 2003 @ 04:21 |
Link to this message
|
|
Glad to hear you got there in the end Gareth.
|
|
gbb
Newbie
|
12. May 2003 @ 05:31 |
Link to this message
|
|
Hi. I thought I had but I had not realised that I can only save the Windows Movie Player file in movie player format. I shall have to get a proper video editing package other than MyDVD - any recomendations? I want to be able to save to DVD in video format, avi, mpeg and or quicktime. Which would be the best for the web?
Gareth Browning
Webmaster & Forester
www.ospreywatch.co.uk
|
Moderator
3 product reviews
|
12. May 2003 @ 06:14 |
Link to this message
|
Quote:
The files are saved by the DVD Recorder in a single directory on the DVD called VIDEO_TS.
Within this directory each piece of video has three seperate files, .VOB, .BUP and .IFO. Interestingly each group of 3 files is not named exactly the same . The .BUP and .IFO files are eg VTS_04_0.BUP and VTS_04_0.IFO but the VOB file is named differently eg VTS_04_1.VOB.
This would be okay & ready for burning.
ie;
VTS_04_0.BUP
VTS_04_0.IFO
VTS_04_1.VOB
VTS_04_2.VOB
VTS_04_3.VOB
etc
A typical VIDEO_ST folder of a DVD is similar to :
VIDEO_TS BUP 16,384
VIDEO_TS IFO 16,384
VIDEO_TS VOB 43,008
VTS_01_0 BUP 77,824
VTS_01_0 IFO 77,824
VTS_01_0 VOB 1,695,744
VTS_01_1 VOB 1,073,565,696\
VTS_01_2 VOB 1,048,565,696 \ <-- This is the Main movie
VTS_01_3 VOB 1,048,565,696 /
VTS_01_4 VOB 589,365,248 /
VTS_02_0 BUP 18,432
VTS_02_0 IFO 18,432
VTS_02_0 VOB 43,008
VTS_02_1 VOB 6,014,976
^ Thats if your copying a DVD & you'd only need to rip the main movie & the .IFO from the title set...in this case VTS_01_0 IFO 77,824.
Because the rest are menu & extras.
If you want to be able to save in .avi then you'd need to encode it to Mpeg2 (to be able to burn a watchable DVD in stand alone player)
As for Quicktime , this is an Apple Mac product & I have v.little to do with this & I'd suggest finding a different format to burn (personally)
Software for uncompressing/encoding...there is so many it is hard to know where to start.
I use DVD Architect myself but there are plenty of options bro.
Hope I've helped some ?
Richard
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 12. May 2003 @ 06:15
|
Moderator
3 product reviews
|
12. May 2003 @ 06:18 |
Link to this message
|
|
Best for the web...I'd imagine that .avi format is best for that as it is the smallest size without faltering on quality.
herb
|
|
Advertisement
|
|
|
|
classfour
Junior Member
|
18. May 2003 @ 10:43 |
Link to this message
|
|
DVD-RAM discs burned with the Panasonic stand-alones produce a .vro file, not divided at the 1 GB mark. These aren't readable by most dvd-authoring software. When ripping the .vro to the hard drive, usually the audio is out of sync, in a negative manner. I've finally resorted to using a DVD-RAM drive with the OEM Panasonic software for fast editing (although the sonic mydvd is unusable) & authoring with ulead MF2, to preserve the ac3 audio, a lengthier process is used.
|
