laserdisc to dvd

[pks2004]

I have several laserdiscs I would like to copy to dvd's. I have a Panasonic
E-80 recorder. I'm able to copy the laserdiscs to dvd with the Pana E-80 but the discs won't play on anything other than the recorder. Would I be able to copy laserdiscs to dvd on the new Lite-on 5005 and would I be able
to play the dvd's on other dvd players. Am I doing something wrong in the way I'm recording on the Pana E-80. The discs do finalize.
Any useful help would be appreciated. PKS

[flaninacupboard]

check the media you're using against the machine you're playing it on. there's a big searchable database on the left. let us know what discs and what machines you're using and perhaps someone can help.

[FulciLives]

Well I doubt you are doing anything really wrong ... the fault I think is the way in which the Panny units structure the content on the DVD-R

In short the discs are not 100% compatable. I would think that most newer make and models (of stand alone DVD players) will play such discs but there are always going to be make and models that do not simply because the discs are not 100% compliant.

If you are really worried about it you can do this:

Re-author the DVD on a computer.

I have a friend that uses a Panny stand alone DVD recorder. Every DVD-R I get from him goes into my computer ... I rip it in FILE MODE select ALL FILES in DVD Decrypter ... then I import it into TMPGEnc DVD Author. I then do my own menu and chapters (although you can import the original chapters if you wish) and burn to a new DVD-R using my computer burner.

This makes a DVD with the same content ... no re-encoding is done ... that is 100% compatable.

Best way to do this without wasting a lot of DVD-R discs is to use the DVD-RAM format ... once you import it to the computer you can erase and use the DVD-RAM disc again and again and again etc.

If your computer doesn't have a DVD drive that can read DVD-RAM well don't panic ... you can buy a DVD-ROM that reads DVD-RAM for something like $40 (look at Toshiba models).

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[musher70]

ANSWER TO YOUR QUERY!!!

First, re-authoring them isnt gonna help
ive tried many times when stripping
the dumb-founded menu they give...

The only answer that is simple
is to use DVD_RAM discs and a
dvd-burner/rom that can read them,
use tmpg to demux the m2v/ac3 file
and use Spruce-up or Ifoedit to reauthor
them back together, spruce-up can put
chapters in, ifoedit doesnt...there are
other authoring programs out there
as there are other demuxing programs also...
they just burn using Burn-at-once or something
else you like to use!!!

[FulciLives]

ANSWER TO YOUR QUERY!!!

First, re-authoring them isnt gonna help
ive tried many times when stripping
the dumb-founded menu they give...

Obviously you haven't tried very hard as this is very easy to do using TMPGEnc DVD Author.

Simply RIP the entire DVD in FILE MODE with DVD Decrypter then import into TMPGEnc DVD Author.

This strips the menu. You can import the chapters as they were set up or you can strip that too and make your own chapter points. You can even do some simple cut-editing of the file (like trimming the start and end).

I've done this countless times with TMPGEnc DVD Author ... when I'm done I use TMPGEnc DVD Author to create an ISO IMAGE file then I burn to a DVD-R using DVD Decrypter.

The discs I do this too then play on every stand alone DVD player I've been able to try EVEN THOUGH the original straight-from-the-Panny DVD-R disc did not.

Please in the future do not so easily discount things that other people comment on when it is clearly from experience.

My guess is you never tried this method with TMPGEnc DVD Author and whatever method you did try ... well I guess it didn't work ... but that was clearly a limitation of your software ... or user error.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
My experience in doing this is from DVD-R discs made in a Panny stand alone DVD recorder as well as DVD+RW discs made in a Philips stand alone DVD recorder. Other people have reported that this process also works with DVD-RAM discs made in a stand alone DVD recorder.

[chas0039]

FulciLives,

How do you get DVDDecrypter to recognize the VRO file? I tried to use it and it said it could only create an ISO file with non-standard files. It then created 95% of the file and quit at the very end of the disc. I got around it and just copied the entire RAM contents to a seperate folder on the HD and then re-authored from there as you have done but I am curious as to how you were able to rip.

Thanks