Pioneer VRO Only partially reading

[jarrodl]

I recorded 4 hour long episodes on my Pioneer 210 in VR mode. I then took them to the computer to copy and cut commercials. It usually take about half an hour to copy the vro file. It only took a few minutes. The file still showed as being about 4.3gig, but when I tried to play it with media player and others, it was only a little over 13 minutes. It should bave been 4 hours. I took the disc back to the recorder and thought I might need to finalize. It said it was already finalized, and It also would not let me un-finalize. I didn't finalize the disc after recording the 4 episodes. I think what happened was I was using a disc I had erased. It had been finalized before I erased it. Another thing. I have not put any chapter points in since it was recorded(I have had some programs only see the first segment recorded). It could be remnants of what was on the disc before that is causing my problem. It will not play past 13 min on my software dvd player in the computer, I haven't tried to see if it will play on another dvd player or not. Does anybody have any ideas what may have happened and better yet how to fix it?

[normando]

I had similar problems back when I had the Lite-On 5101. I found that if I only recorded one session on the disc, I could extract the vob files without an problems. If I recorded several sessions on the +RW disc, I could only utilize the first session.

When I have a single session on the +RW disc, I am able to load the vob file directly into Womble's Mpeg-VCR from the disc (it takes about 90 seconds to load up), cut out the commercials, and export an Mpeg-2 file to my HD that is ready for DVD-Lab Pro.

How are the rest of you removing the commercials from your recordings?

Was your recording only a single session or multiple sessions?

[jarrodl]

My disc doesn't have vobs, it has a single vro file. This was because I recorded it in VR mode. It was done in 4 sessions. My problem is, it won't even read all of the first session. I have done it this way before, but it was on a new disc. This disc was used and re initialized. I think that may have something to do with it. I have been copying the vro to HD then renaming to .mpg, then demuxing in tmpeg, and cutting with cuttermaran.

[spiderman2k1]

You have to "DEMULTIPLEXER" the file it will break the file up to Video and audio. Then you have to "MULTIPLEXER" the file back together and it should be fine after that. Use MPEG2VCR you can download it at

http://www.womble.com/