Closing Multisession tracks?

[When]

I have a number of DVD-Rs all which contain videos recorded using my DVD recorder.When I placed the disc in the PC.It identify it as a Blank CD.How do I know if my disc is multisession?Finalising does not help.

[guns1inger]

If they are truly finalised then they should be accessible on your PC. Try opening them in another, to see if the problem lies with your CD drive.

Are these discs playable in other DVD players ?

[When]

No,they are unable to play in other players.How do I know if they are truly finalised?

[guns1inger]

Your DVD recorder should only allow you to finalise a disc once (some provide an unfinalise option). Try finalising again in your recorder and see what happens. It sounds like this isn't actually happening at the moment.

[When]

Your right.Finalised it and managed to get it to VirtualDub for removing the commercials.But it does not allow me to save it to mpeg2 but avi.How do I convert it to mpeg 2 so It can be watched like a DVD?And why does Virtualdub create so many video files from one file?

[guns1inger]

Virtualdub will create only one file. It only saves in the avi container, although the is (was ?) a commercial mpeg-2 encoder for it. If you want to keep it mpeg-2 without re-encoding then you need a smart editor such as VideoRedo, Tmpgenc Mpeg Editor or Womble Mpeg Video Wizard. There are some freeware cutters as well - cuttermaran, mpeg2cut2 etc.

Your other option is to frameserve from virtualdub to your mpeg-2 encoder, however you are still re-encoding, which takes time and often reduces quality.

[When]

I used DVDFlick for encoding after editing in VirtualDub.Could you suggest how to cram all 9 episodes,each around 41 mins onto a single 4.7 GB DVD?I would like to retain the same quality as much as possible.Edit: DVDFlick split my encoded file into 3.How do I combine the together again

[guns1inger]

Unless the quality is already incredibly low, you cannot put that many episodes on a single layer disc. You would have to reduce the size and quality down to VCD level, which is sub-VHS quality IMO.

Realistically you can get three episodes at good quality, 4 at reasonable - average quality.

Do you mean it gave you three VOB files ? If so, it is correct. VOBs in a DVD structure have a maximum size of 1000 MB. If a titleset goes over that size, it will be split into multiple VOB files. There is no need to join them back together again.

If you really want to try to find 9 episodes on a disc I would suggest you use FAVC instead, as it has a VCD setting (for VCD resolution on DVD). Just give it all 9 original files and let it try to squeeze them on.

[When]

Thanks for the help.So I just have to place the 3 VOB Files(1 episode) in DVD Styler and it would automatically combine them into 1 episode?

[guns1inger]

They are one episode. However if you intend to author in DVD Styler, you should

Add all 9 episodes to FAVC as a single disc.

Select the VCD setting.

Select Keep Working Files.

Let FAVC do it's thing, then use the elementary streams it creates in it's temporary working folder to author a new disc.

Far easier than screwing around with VOBs form DVD Flick. If you must use DVD Flick then use VOB2MPG to get the episode back out of the VOBs. However at 2.5 GB each you will only be getting 1 episode to a disc.