ever heard of a vro file?

[uglijimus]

I got a dvd of a TV show from my sister-in-law in Japan. I tried everything I could to convert this VRO file, even just changing the extension (I read that it's really just a vob file) but nothing has worked. Virtual Dub says that it can't decompress the audio.
Anyone ever have any luck with this? thanks

[poisondeathray]

The majority are MPEG2/AC3, and you can use avidemux

[redwudz]

It's from a video recorder. More info here: http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/vro

You could try AVS Video Converter as it says it can do the conversion: http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Converter.aspx

[Bjs]

TMPGEnc

[usually_quiet]

I used Cyberlink PowerProducer Gold to convert VRO format recordings on a DVD-RAM disc produced by a Panasonic DVD recorder to mpgs. It could detect individual programs and even worked when there were some bad sectors on the disc.

TMPGEnc Authoring Works and TMPGEnc MPEG Editor can detect incividual programs too, but stop when they find bad sectors on DVD-RAM discs.

MPEG Streamclip (free) can also read and convert VRO files to mpgs or demultiplex with various audio options, but can't deal with bad sectors on DVD-RAM discs. Although it doesn't detect individual programs, it does provide clues as to where to splt the programs -- the end points correspond to timecode breaks.

[uglijimus]

thanks guys, i appreciate all the responses. But I used most of the programs here and they couldn't recognize the file, meaning they couldnt' even open it up. I think there's something very different about this file.

[redwudz]

Maybe not correctly finalized in the recorder? Don't know as I haven't ran into those files. You might try playing it with VLC. It ignores most extensions. Or try dropping it into Gspot or MediaInfo and see if you get any more info on the contents. Past that, maybe it's just a corrupted file or a badly burned disc.

[Bjs]

The only one I know that might budge it from dvdram is sony vegas ... used it on a bad disc from a camera and recovered it all

[mazinz]

thanks guys, i appreciate all the responses. But I used most of the programs here and they couldn't recognize the file, meaning they couldnt' even open it up. I think there's something very different about this file.

try renaming it to a .mpg or .vob and then see if it works.

VRO files are dvd ram format made on a homedeck recorder. Because of this format the disc is not finalized as it does not work this way

do the renaming and see if it works for you

also the lastest versions of isobuster are now made to work with dvd-ram/vro files as well

[usually_quiet]

@uglijimus - Since your first post identified the file as a .VRO, and says you have already tried changing the file extension , I'm assuming your burner could recognize the disc and that you copied the entire VRO file to your computer. If that is correct, my best guess is the VRO file is corrupted in some way. If my assumption is incorrect, what kind of disc do you have, DVD-RW, or DVD-RAM? Is there a folder on the disc with a .IFO and .VRO inside?

DVD-RAM discs like DVD+RW discs can't be finalized. DVD-RAM discs are the ones most often used for VRO format recordings. However, there are supposed to be a few DVD recorders that can create them on DVD-RW discs, which I'm guessing would need to be finalized by the recorder.

Some burners can't read DVD-RAM discs, but if that were the case, I doubt you'd be able to see the VRO file, and you'd get an error message saying "Unrecognized Disc" or something similar. If it was an unfinalized DVD-RW disc, you'd also be unable to see any files using Windows Explorer.

I don't know what the pay version of ISOBuster does, but based on my own experience with the free version, if the disc is a DVD-RAM with bad secors, the free version won't give an entirely satisfactory result. The video and audio in the .tao file it creates will be messed up where the error occurred and may not play correctly past that point. All you can do is try it and see what happens.

[mazinz]

@uglijimus -

I don't know what the pay version of ISOBuster does, but based on my own experience with the free version, if the disc is a DVD-RAM with bad secors, the free version won't give an entirely satisfactory result. The video and audio in the .tao file it creates will be messed up where the error occurred and may not play correctly past that point. All you can do is try it and see what happens.

the pay version of isobuster extracts the multi (if any) files from a vro file in the proper mpeg2 format. Now if you get errors while that is extracting then yes the disc itself could be corrupted

[uglijimus]

It's a dvd-r the disc that is. I opened it up on my computer and it had 3 files. I just took the biggest one which was the vro (can't remember the other two but they were very small in comparison). I put it into G-spot and it says the codec is Mpeg2. The only thing that seemed to work was Isobuster, but in order for you to extract the repaired version of the file you need to pay and that's not what I want.
thanks for all the responses.