can't copy AVESEQxx.MPG 2 hd

[rendalunit]

would anyone happen to know why explorer can't read these files from my svcd disk? 1 movie is on 3 discs each about 849 mb on an 80 min cdr and I want to copy the aveseqxx.mpg files to the hd so I can join them and re-encode to vcd so that they're playable on my standalone. Is it because there is so much overburn?

thanx,
lost noowby

[Big_Jit]

try copying them using your cd-burning software


or try vcdeasy

[rendalunit]

thanks for the reply,

Nothing works though. I've tried Windows Explorer, Windows Commander, Nero and VCDEasy. The only thing I was able to do was to copy the cd using Nero but then I just ended up with 2 cds that I cant copy the AVESEQ01.MPG file from.

[Big_Jit]

How exactly are you trying to copy them, and what happens that lets you know that you can't copy the file to your hard drive?...

Do you have enough hd space

[rendalunit]

hi,

Windows commander gives me the error message "error: cannot read..(path\filename)"

Windows explorer error message was very similar and I had to wait about 10 minutes for this beautiful error msg while it loaded the mpeg into media player automatically (wow! at least I got a pinball game with my os!)

VCDEasy pretended like it was going to add the file to the file processing screen when I clicked on it but it wasn't added

C: drive is 30 g D: is 80g [plenty of free space on each]

I'm not sure what version of DVD2SVCD I used and not sure if that matters at all

*Also I make sure that I'm trying to copy not move from cd-rom to hd

It's getting to the point where I wanna buy a dvd player that will play svcds- almost- before I do that I'm gonna take my 1000's of hours of encoding to a firing range and blast those little frisbees-

[TeeeRex]

Have you tried via the copy command from a Windows DOS prompt ?

Windows won't try to analyse the file first and it should start copying immediately - ie "copy d:\aqseq001.mpg c:\" will copy it to the root of your hard drive for example.

(If you are unfamiliar with DOS - run 'CMD' from NT/2000 or 'COMMAND' from 98 etc)

Worth a try - I've copied avseq's this way before when Windows had failed - not 850Mbyte's worth mind you ...

[theslimpiknz]

You could also google search for ISOBUSTER and try that , it seems to be able to read disks that Windows can't. It's never failed me yet

[Big_Jit]

My Next Suggestion was gonna be the DOS Prompt. I think you should give it a try...

Have you tried copying to a friends computer, to see if it's your computer or the disc?...

[rendalunit]

thanx very much for the replies,

I didn't even think to try good ol' DOS I'm going to try that right now- if that doesn't work I'll try ISOBUSTER

THANKS!!
ren

[rendalunit]

ISOBUSTER is working great- (thx for the tip slimpicknz) it still gives the error "sector 450 could not be read" but at least it gives me the option of ignoring the problem. I can now load these mpegs into tmpgenc.

This will probably sound dumb but I see no way of getting to the DOS prompt from Windows 2000. With Win98 you could restart in dos mode but the win2k shutdown button doesn't have this. Anyone able to do this without rebooting?

thx

[Big_Jit]

win2k doesn't have DOS