Hey there everyone, I recently recorded a movie on my Sanyo DVD 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. Thanks... Me
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.
Altar, yes it does. 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. Me
A DVD usually has multiple VOB files (1GB maximum per VOB) - unless it's a very short movie of course.
You can use DVD Flick if you have VOBs, just tell it to "Copy mpeg-2 streams" and it won't re-encode.
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.
Hey'a. Well, thanks, but at $113 NZD, I can buy the DVD's I'm having problems with new...and still have money left over. Me
