DVD VR versus Standard DVD

[SCDVD]

A DVD recorder creates a file structure that is different from a standard DVD. This can create a problem on some players especially older ones. The "standard" mode of operation when a disc is inserted into a DVD player is to confirm the existance of a Video TS and an Audio TS folder. The player looks for both to confirm the type of disc it is about to play. Unfortunately if the player doesn't find an Audio TS folder in some of these older players, it just hangs up instead of defaulting to the Video TS folder. Most newer players can cope just fine if there is no Audio TS folder but not so with some older ones.

A DVD recorder creates a standard Video TS folder and a VR folder that contains information needed by the recorder prior to being finalized. AFTER it is finalized, the VR folder serves no further useful function. To insure that a disc created on a DVD recorder is a fully compliant disc, the disc can be reauthored and the VR folder deleated and an empty Audio TS folder created. On a video DVD, the Audio TS folder is empty. There is only content in the Audio TS folder if it is an audio DVD. But some older players expect to see the Audio TS folder there. It then sees that it is empty and then goes to the Video TS folder and plays the video.

[tangerine]

Thanks for the info. Now I see why my old DVD player won't play the discs my JVC DR-MH20 makes. There are no AUDIO_TS folder on them, only VIDEO_TS. When I rip and reburn with CloneDVD2 then CloneDVD2 creates an empty AUDIO_TS on the new burned disc, and then this disc can be played in the old player.

[trhouse]

SCDVD,

It is not just dvd recorders, Sonic MyDVD software does the same. There is no Audio_TS folder.