Panasonic DMRE80 .VRO file conversion to DVD VOB

[jccruit]

Does anyone know of a program(s) to convert the .VRO files contained on a Panasonic DMRE80 DVD-RAM to DVD VOB? I have searched the tools conversion section but failed to find any mention of .VRO files. I would like to be able to save recordings to DVD-RAM and then on occasion save the files to DVD. I know you can do this to DVD-R but this can result in a wasted blank. Would like to first verify that I really want to save the output before writing to a final disc. Thanks in advance for any input.

[Bob W]

I use NeoDVD Plus and sometimes MovieFactory 2.

[Roll Tide]

Just simply copy the .vro file from the DVD-RAM to your PC hard drive, change the extension to .mpg, then author the disc using the .mpg file. No actual conversion is necessary.

The easiest thing to do is dub to DVD-R on the Panny and finalize, but some people like pretty menus. For me, depends on the material I'm saving.

Hope this helps.

[macleod]

tmpgenc dvd author. I have done roughly 100 of them.

[malcolm grant]

i have the Panny E50 and i would like to know how to extract the dvdram file to the hard disc of my pc. when i try to open the disc it shows up as nothing although i know that the dvd rom drive reads dvdram as it plays back through powerdvd. i am running windows 98se.

any help appreciated
malcs

[Bob W]

i have the Panny E50 and i would like to know how to extract the dvdram file to the hard disc of my pc. when i try to open the disc it shows up as nothing although i know that the dvd rom drive reads dvdram as it plays back through powerdvd. i am running windows 98se.

any help appreciated
malcs

You need a DVD drive that will read DVD-RAM. I had to buy a Toshiba DVD drive to be able to read the files (about $35).

[malcolm grant]

like a said i have a dvd rom drive that reads dvd ram (liteon 16x manufactured oct 2003) and it plays back dvd ram thru power dvd. however when i try to open the disk it just shows up as nothing?????
any more help appreciated
cheers
malcs

[mscdex]

Hi,
this is a little off topic as I have a Sansui DVD recorder instead of a Panasonic, but it too records in the .VRO format. I have tried copying
the file to my hard drive and renaming it to a .MPG extension then importing it into DVD Workshop version 1.2, and I get an error that
says "the file [path to filename] contains no video data".
I know the computer is reading the file OK because I can play the file
in PowerDVD just fine.
Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks

[Specialist]

I have the Toshiba D-R1, which is very similar to the Panasonic DMR-E50.

I've written a step-by-step tutorial that shows how to "capture" the video recorded on DVD-RAM discs to one's hard drive.

The tutorial begins on the Web page at the following link:

http://www.jonesgroup.net/dvdrecorderdiscstepone.htm

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

i have the Panny E50 and i would like to know how to extract the dvdram file to the hard disc of my pc. when i try to open the disc it shows up as nothing although i know that the dvd rom drive reads dvdram as it plays back through powerdvd. i am running windows 98se.

any help appreciated
malcs

[Schmendrick]

@ malcolm grant:

In the following thread I gave a download location for a DVD-RAM-Driver:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=202050

this driver you need to be able to read DVD-RAM in UDF-2.01-format. Even though this is a driver provide for an LG-writer it also works on my DVD-RAM-enabled-DVD-ROM-drive GRD-8162B and from an *.inf-file from the driver package I found that the whole package originally seems to be written by Panasonic-people and in a list of drives also LiteOn-drives are listed may be you actually have an OEM-Panasonic-drive with a LiteOn-label on it. The driver package even installs on a system which does not even has a DVD-RAM-capable drive installed (even though this is of course useless).


@ mscdex : I guess if you demux the VRO-file with TMPEGENC or other programs like ds.jar or Project-X and then mux it it again to an MPEG2-PS-file you should be able to use it for your authoring programme. I don't have problems in making a DVD from my recordings.

CU

Schmendrick

[mscdex]

I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I found out part of my problem and thought someone might have a suggestion.
Apparently the problem isn't with DVD Workshop not reading the file thats renamed to a MPG properly, its apparently the copy of the file thats bad.
For some reason, the file plays back as I said on PowerDVD when I play it straight from the DVD-RW in my computer, but when I copy it to the hard drive, something goes wrong because it won't play from the hard drive,
and the file which shows to be about 3gb on the disc only takes about 55 seconds to copy to the hard drive. The file shows the same size after it copies but it must be getting corrupted somewhere in the process.
I couldn't get my DVD-RW disc to show any files were even on the disc until after I installed a program called Read-DVD!, a program from www.softarch.com. After installing it, the directories and all show and I
can playback the files direct from the disc, but they don't play after attempting to copy them to the hard drive.
Wierd yes?
Any ideas or recommendations?
Thanks

[Schmendrick]

Instead of Read-DVD which I never had, as mentioned in the other thread cited above, I just installed a DVD-RAM-Driver which enabled my system to read UDF-2.01-formated discs and I guess this notonly works for DVD-RAMs but also for DVD-RWs. I don't have problems in correctly copying VRO-files from DVD-RAMs produced with my Panasonic-DMR-E30EG-S.

CU

Schmendrick

[handyguy]

"Instead of Read-DVD which I never had, as mentioned in the other thread cited above, I just installed a DVD-RAM-Driver"

That should work, the driver came with my Panasonic lfd521 writer. These things should be in the manual too.