I've come across a real stumper. Been doing a classic transfer of analog Hi8 tapes to disk using the PhilipsDVDR 3400. Aside from the marginal reputation and usability of the burner I've had success with about 90 burns until this one. Following burns also were more or less successful.
The unique problem is that in this case after burning and finalizing disc, the computer cannot open the vob files because all four of them show 0 bytes according to Windows. Or rather under My Computer explorer right clicking at the G:\DVD VR level shows the drive is full with 4.30 gb and 0 gb available. But once I enter the disk tree, clicking on the video_ts folder shows it being empty. Likewise with all the vob files therein...0 bytes each. Oddly, I can play back the video with Nero Showtime, but Media Player Classic (my default player)tells me it can't find the file. It opens the Philips created menu starts up its play mode, quickly spits out 'stopped' and then reacts with the missing file message. I may add that this DVD also plays normally on my standalone DVD player and of course it plays normally on the Philips machine that created it. The only possible thing I can think that might be doing something is that the very first capture/recording that went into the first vob file is very short (just under one minute).
Even if perhaps the 3400 might have inadequately finalized the disk (not a sure thing), might there be a work around to at least allow me to copy those VOB files onto the computer so that I can edit/re-author the DVD. I'm at wits end. Thanks anyone for help on this.
A slight addendum to my post, that might clarify the source of my problem. According to Windows within the DVD there are two folders: Video_ts and Video_rm. The latter show it containg 500 ko corresponding to the index, title and peripheral files. The video vobs are all 0 bytes. The Video_rm folder, however is completely empty, 0 bytes. I noticed on the other successful burns I'd done, that folder generally generates a few files of about 1 mb. Maybe there is a clue here.
