Hi, in my opinion this should be a simple thing, but it seems not. I'm trying for days now to find information/programs capable of this to no avail. So please if you guys can, help me. Up front: I'm totally beginner in the dvd/video field. I've some recorded 1-hour episodes from tv onto dvd-rams and dvd-rws. (recorder by a separate panasonic recorder from tv) I've a multi format dvd-writer: asus drw-1608p2s I'd like to get some of the videos off the rams and rws, and write them to a dvd+r to free up the re-writables. I've received two programs with the drive, the nero-6 and the ulead dvd movie factory 4. I could not do it with those, the movie factory should be able to do it, but it just can't. Various errors, and useless small files generated, best result was an mpg without sound... I tried to patch it hoping it would help, but the patch did not find the program installed (?!?) - even when I put it into the same directory - and therefore did not work. Ulead support of course=0. I've found out in the meantime, that the recorded Vr_mangr.vro file is actually an mpg-2 file, so I copied it off the DVD-ram, and trying to edit it somehow. Tried it with dvd2avi, but it does not seem to work, it saves the files with 0 length when I try to save it, or simply switches itself off (looks like a silent crash). It depends on what do I chose - unencoded or xvid or other... So at this point I'm lost. Please help - if you need more info just ask please.
Have a look at this site http://www.vso-software.fr/ and this one http://www.tomdownload.com/multimedia_design/video/convert_rm_ram_dvd_avi_mpeg.htm hope these are of use. gringle
thanks - the rm to avi is a converter for real media formats. the xtodvd sees the first one-hour episode only. and somehow does not seem to be able to repro sound either (I may be wrong, I did not burn it. The preview did not have sound tho. It started to make a .vso file, but it'd take 2 hours ...and because it can't see the other episodes I cancelled it.
ok man i have the same problems and im gonna help u, help is comming from here: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/284771 these are the steps that helped me: 1) Make a directory on your hard drive to contain your movie file. 2) Copy VR_MOVIE.VRO from your RAM disk into this directory. 3) On your hard drive, rename VR_MOVIE.VRO to VR_MOVIE.MPG.(this isn't strictly necessary, but just humour me for now!) after that i just opened: TMPGEnc DVD Author and imported the VR_MOVIE.MPG and all worked fine with sound and video. hope that helps u cause it should.
Hm...what did you mean 'imported'? I tried to open the renamed file, but the TMPGEnc said 'it cannot be opened, or unsupported' - while I can read/play the file so it's ok. Tried it with another file, same results.
well in TMPGEnc DVD Author there is button called ADD FILE and u import the file u have now. Its important that u do this step: rename VR_MOVIE.VRO to VR_MOVIE.MPG and TMPGEnc DVD Author 100% recognizes MPG files, so i dont see why the program wouldnt recognize the file.
Ugh...my bad, I tried the tmpgenc simple - not the "dvd author". Next try... thanks again for your help.
Bad news, it's still not capable of doing it. It may work with one chapter...I'll try that as soon as I can free up one of the discs...but it definitely does not work with multiple chapters in my case. I've a pretty full DVD-ram file with 3 chapters, and another small file with 2 chapters for testing. With neither file the TDA was able to see all chapters (the last chapter was never shown) and in the case of 3 chapters the times were completely off - it shows me the first 2 minutes of the 1st ~55min chapter then the rest was the second chapter. It shows the whole file to be 1 hour, which is not even nearly correct in this case - it's 4 h ours. I can't put in chapter boundaries, as only part of the first chapter is shown... When I tried to convert the whole thing to a dvd video folder, to see what would happen, it run out of memory (2.5GB) at ~20%. Thanks for the help anyway. I may go and try to get a full version nero and give it another try after the other theread you quoted.
