help with DVD format

[firjam]

I have a personal DVD that was copied from tape onto DVD using my Panasonic recorder. I would now like to edit it using windows movie maker or similar. But the DVD now has the file attatchments .bup and i cannot get it changed and have no idea of what to do next. Windows will not accept .bup

Help please.
Many thanks.

[Baldrick]

If you really want to use movie maker then try vob2mpg on the dvd and try import the mpg in wmm. You probably need a mpeg2 decoder installed, ffdshow might work fine.

Or else maybe try a dvd editor like mpeg video wizard, tmpgenc authoring works, videoredo and read https://forum.videohelp.com/topic257114.html

[firjam]

what i really should have written, is that every time i use a DVD program (movie maker, cyberlink, HP) it tells me it is the codecs, and that it cannot read a .bup file
Where do i go from here?

[AlanHK]

what i really should have written, is that every time i use a DVD program (movie maker, cyberlink, HP) it tells me it is the codecs, and that it cannot read a .bup file

A bup file is a very small "BackUP" file, a copy of the IFO, which is a kind of index.
It isn't a video file at all.

Where do i go from here?

Baldrick's post above.