LiteOn LVD-2002 / Directory Structure?

[pairustwo]

This is not strictly a DVD Player question but since all the knowledge about the LVD-200X seems to concentrated here I'm gonna go ahead and ask.

I am trying to consolidate many different .avi and .mpg files of childrens videos that I have converted from VHS onto a single DVD-R.
I have burned them all in respective folders - Finding Nemo in a Finding Nemo folder and Monsters Inc in a Monsters Inc folder etc. My problem is that when I pop the disk in it starts the Finding Nemo.avi file (as that is alphabeticaly first in order). I have to press the stop button / arrow up to the folder up entry and then press enter to see the directory of all the created folders.

In the interest of simplicity, and for the sake of my wife and child, how can I have the LVD-2002 display all of the available folders when the disk is inserted which would allow us to choose what file to play by browsing and selecting rather than having to stop and navigate out of the first movie each time.

I hope that makes sense.
Thanks again.
parirustwo.

[Roundabout]

Pairustwo,

I think the closest you will come to what you need is to turn off ISO disc autorun in the set-up menu. There are instructions on page 16 of your owner's manual on this. When you turn off autorun it will show a play menu when you put in the disc where you can choose MPEG4, JPG or Music. The default selection is MPEG4, so if you just press the enter button (the one between the cursor keys), it will show the list of titles. Then you can choose the one you want using the cursor keys and press enter. At least, this prevents the unit from playing and having to stop it and go to the menu. Hope that helps a little, I don't think there's any way of going directly to the selection menu, because some discs may have all three (MPEG, JPEG and Music) and you always would have to select which one in any case. It won't show all three in one window, so this is why you have to select MPEG4 from the play menu.

[pairustwo]

Thanks,

That did the trick.

Another question if I can sneak it in here.

I have some vcd from asia and they look like any other vcd's. I tried to pull the .mpg file out of the mpeg folder and put in right on the DVD-R.
The LVD-2002 sees the file name (I renamed it on the DVD- a possible problem) but it won't play the file. Or rather it seems to play - the timer runs on the player and I can ff and rw but the screen remains black.

Any idea why this is. all other mpeg files play fine.

pairustwo

[Roundabout]

Pairustwo,

I think if it's on a VCD you can't just pull the file out of the MPEGAV folder (it should be a .dat file, not .mpg at this point), so you have to extract the .mpg from the .dat file in the MPEGAV folder by using a program like ISOBuster. I think if you look at the file structure of the VCD with windows explorer and look inside the MPEGAV folder that's what you will see (a .dat file), there shouldn't be anything with a .mpg file extension.

You need to open it with ISOBuster and select the largest file in the MPEGAV folder (if there's more than one) and right click on it and select "Extract only m2f2 frames" to get the mpeg information that will be what you need to play on the LVD-2002. Just extract to a dir on your HDD and burn it as "somefile.mpg" to your CD-R or DVD-R.

[pairustwo]

I think I better go back to school in some of the authoring fourms. I called it a vcd and It looks as though it is a svcd. making it an mpeg2 file.



There are .dat files in the other directories but they are only like 17 kb
Still I am surprised that the raw mpeg2 file won't play. maybe it is missing some header information. I will try to convert it to XviD or something.

pairsutwo