DVD+R to DVD-R

[pyroguyperson]

I did a search and couldn't find anything about this.

Here's whats happening. I'm on a new eMac with the super drive and all that good stuff. I got this DVD+R bootleg of a show I went to in a trade that I need to copy for myself since he doesn't have a DVD burner.

Now it won't play on VLC or the supplied DVD player in my computer but I can still see the disc on the harddrive and open it up to see what's in it. Which is a VIDEO_TS folder and a VIDEO_RM folder.

So since I just got this computer and have only burned 1 DVD before my question is if I just copy the VIDEO_TS folder to my harddrive and then burn it as a disc image to a DVD will it work? Is there anything else I would need to do to burn this as a DVD-R and have it work?

thanks

[galactica]

DEPENDS!
using your wording it sound tricky

instead, copy the VIDEO_TS folder over and burn it as DVD-ROM (UDF) with toast 6

click NEW DISC and drag the VIDEO_TS folder to toast
then burn

point being you want the VIDEO_TS folder to be WITHIN the dvd, not the dvd itself.

[pyroguyperson]

I'm sorry but let me see if I can get this right...

I burn the VIDEO_TS folder as a DVD-ROM (UDF). Then I click new disc new disc and burn the folder again on the same disc or new disc? And by doing this it will still be a video DVD that will play on my DVD players and such?

Out of curiosity couldn't I just copy the folder to my harddrive like I was suggesting before and then just burn it as a image file or whatever in the disc copy section?

[galactica]

thats not correct

you have to have to click NEW DISC first, then drag the VIDEO_TS folder to toast, then add a blank AUDIO_TS folder then burn!

making a disk image of the VIDEO_TS folder will work, however you must also have a AUDIO TS folder within that image. its easy for ones who have never done this to incorrectly make the image and burn it and then it wont work

its easiest to have toast burn the dvd as you build it by dragging / dropping the fodlers to it

make it so toast has a structure like this

DVD_NAME (by clicking NEW DISC and renaming it to what you want)
------AUDIO_TS (a folder you make by clicking NEW FOLDER in toast
------VIDEO_TS (the folder you copied over from the DVD+r
------------VIDEO_TS.VOB (and so on) (files from the VIDEO_TS folder

make since?

[pyroguyperson]

Yes, thanks.

I think you wrote VIDEO_TS twice instead of AUDIO_TS in the first post which is why I got confused .

Thanks again!

[pyroguyperson]

Should I be hesitent to burn this if VLC won't play the VIDEO_TS folder from my harddrive?

[galactica]

yes!
try just dragging one of the .vob's to VLC and see if that plays

if it does it could be that you didnt have VLC access the dvd properly.
OPEN DISC, choose DVD hit ok, then push PLAY

[pyroguyperson]

Alright it's working now.

Now since I'm a f--ing idiot I'm just gonna run though this one more time...

DVD-ROM (UDF)

New Disc

Drag VIDEO_TS folder to it

New folder: AUDIO_TS


And this will play on my computer, DVD player, PS2 and whatever, correct?

Lets keep vulgarity to a min. Edited by Galactica

[galactica]

correct.
as long as the .vob files play in VLC there should be NO problem.

keep us posted on the progress

[pyroguyperson]

IT WORKS!

On my computer atleast

Thanks dude, sorry about the cursing.

[galactica]

great!
it should work on the settop dvd players as well 8)

[pyroguyperson]

It does

Thanks again

[galactica]

welcome

[pyroguyperson]

Oh yea while I got your attention on this thread, do you have any idea why after manually taking all the 2 second gaps off and saying to burn in DAO format Toast 6 still burned this Nirvana show with 2 second gaps?

[Tezgno]

This problem is due to the new eMac/iMac having a DVD-RW that is actually a DVD± (Pioneer DVR-106D) with some custom firmware. It prevents the DVD playback of DVD+Rs and DVD+RWs on your machine (just as you can't write +R/RWs).

As for the two second gaps, make sure you actually remove the gaps. I have made the mistake of simply setting it to DAO figuring it would remove it, but it didn't.

[pyroguyperson]

Yea I've noticed that, thanks though. I still don't understand why they'd show up but not play though.

And about 2 second gaps, when I put it as DAO (stupid us for thinking that burning as DAO would remove the gaps ) and then burned another CD with DAO and manually removing each 2 second gap, still didn't work.

And I really wish I could figure this DAO thing out now since I've noticed recently that after turning off gaps in iTunes it adds some strange little distortion inbetween tracks. It still plays the audience noice or talking or whatever's going on in the show, but theres this little blip in it, not a beep.

[pyroguyperson]

Bout to try and burn another CD with it. Hope the gaps don't come back

[pyroguyperson]

Ah ha! I caught it.

When it was converting each wav track to aiff so it could burn it, it was adding 2 second gaps to each track

Hopefully if I convert the shns now strait to aiff instead of wav this wont happen anymore.