what Folders does DRM-E55 create?

[iluvJLO]

Video_TS and Audio_TS?

Why do some recorders make Video_RM folders ith files in them and others create Audio_TS with nothing in them?

[mracer]

The Panasonic DRM-E55 creates only a VIDEO_TS folder on DVD-R discs. On DVD-RAM discs it creates a DVD_RTAV folder. I've never found out what the empty AUDIO_TS folder is for on some DVD discs. Someone elighten me please.

EDIT: Google is my friend, I found the answer to the AUDIO_TS mystery in the DVD demystified DVD faq.

"DVD-Audio is a separate format from DVD-Video. DVD-Audio discs can be designed to work in DVD-Video players, but it's possible to make a DVD-Audio disc that won't play at all in a DVD-Video player, since the DVD-Audio specification includes new formats and features, with content stored in a separate "DVD-Audio zone" on the disc (the AUDIO_TS directory) that DVD-Video players never look at. New DVD-Audio players are needed, or new "universal players" that can play both DVD-Video and DVD-Audio discs. Universal players are also called VCAPs (video-capable audio players)."

[tomwil]

My Panasonic DMR-E20 also only creates a VIDEO_TS folder. My portable DVD player (Initial DVD-9510) will not play any discs made from the Panasonic DVD recorder. I have to reauthor the DVD and include an empty AUDIO_TS folder for the Initial portable DVD player to play the DVD.

I wonder how many other DVD players are affected by this?

[HatchetMan]

Older players look for both the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS to play because older discs had both VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders. Newer players only need the VIDEO_TS folder because that's where everything is, in the VIDEO_TS folder. Some programs will make you an empty folder named AUDIO_TS just to be compatible with some older players, even though it contains nothing.

So there you have it, the AUDIO_TS folder is only there for compatibility issues. Someone correct me if I am wrong.