dvd recorder format

[fitz15]

just wondered if anyone knows what format dvd recorders record as ?
i dont have one myself but i have been given a disk (dvd-rw) from a friend and he wants me to copy it for him.
when i load it my pc doesnt see the disk and if i try to play it with windows media player it gives me the message unsuported format, and my dvd player does not play dvd-rw.

any help would be great thanks

[harley2ride]

He may not have finalized the disk correctly. You can try isobuster to see if you can copy the dvd to your hd with it.

[Sam Ontario]

just wondered if anyone knows what format dvd recorders record as ?
i dont have one myself but i have been given a disk (dvd-rw) from a friend and he wants me to copy it for him.
when i load it my pc doesnt see the disk and if i try to play it with windows media player it gives me the message unsuported format, and my dvd player does not play dvd-rw.

any help would be great thanks

There are many standard video file formats. There are also many non-standard video file formats, especially those from China that a disc can hold tens of episodes drama ( you can spent a few days in front of your PC full time to watch just one DVD disc). You need to download the correct video decoder/player to watch them. Copying this type of video is easy, you simply drag & drop the files to your PC and them burn them as data file to DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW.

[fitz15]

hi thanks both of you for your help.

harley2ride i tryed what you said with isobuster and it worked the only problem is i exsracted it with the only option it gave me ( extract user data ) and it saved a file called Track01.tao.
i dont know what to do with that file now ?
and i have never come across a .tao file before, can you help ?

[harley2ride]

I don't know about .tao files, but hopefully someone will come along here that will.

[MysticE]

Is it a good sized file? Try renaming to either .mpg or .VOB and see if it reads.

[fitz15]

hi, i tryed to rename the file type but nothing seems to work ?