I recently recorded a movie on my SanyoDVD Recorder's hard drive, then dubbed it to a DVD, and finalized it. Although it will now play on windows Media Player, when I try to use DVD Shrink, or the other rippers mentioned in my subject title, none of them will recognise it (I am wanting to re-author it and use on the main title because my DVD recorder puts the ugliest title page on it).
The media is Imation (another reason I want to reburn it, as I prefer Verbatim but my DVD Recorder doesn't like it so I can't burn direct to it).
I am using Vista Home Premium, SP1. I'm not a newbie, but wouldn't say I was advanced either...just in between so be kind with the techo speak. :P
You don't need to decode it so a simple file copy will get it on your hard drive. Home made DVDs don't have CSS or any other protection. Open it in Windows Explorer and see.
Olyteddy, yes, I did know that...but forgot to say I had tried that also...lol. It did manage to copy over the VOB file but wouldn't copy the ifo and bup files, but when I use WinAVI to convert the single VOB to a proper DVD, it loses quality so badly (even when set at highest quality) that when there is movement, there is quite bad ghosting. If I can't sort it, I thought I might just burn the vob file as it is because (from memory) I think my DVD player will just play a vob file, and of course wmp does also. But I just don't like it getting the better of me and like to learn more about these things.
A DVD usually has multiple VOB files (1GB maximum per VOB) - unless it's a very short movie of course.
There was only one VOB of .99GB which coppied over. But I've just checked the end of that VOB and it's not the whole movie. I am trying to 'Explore' the contents of the disc in My Computer, but the flippen thing wont open. Grrrrrr....lol.
