splitting a VRO file

[feh]

I've got 2 movies recorded on a DVD-RAM disk. I want to split them into separate mpg files for authoring & burning.

I'm able to copy the .vro file to my hard drive, and if I rename it to .mpg, I'm able to play it. But things are funky; ie. even though it's 4 hours of video, the length of the mpg is reported as 2:16 (which is the length of the first movie).

I tried to split it in tmpgenc, but what I thought I was extracting wasn't what I ended up with. I can only assume that the header info in a .vro file is different than an .mpg.

So - is there a tool I can use to split a single .vro file that contains 2 tracks into 2 distinct mpg files I can work with?

Thanks!

[Ejoc]

Never heard of a .vro file

[macleod]

I believe that TMPGENC DVD Author will do it.

vro dvd-ram like vob is for dvd

[Bob W]

I use NeoDVD Plus to work with the VRO files and it does a fine job for such a simple program. I assume you have your hard drive formated NTFS so that files over 4GB are usable?

[ktton]

I've got 2 movies recorded on a DVD-RAM disk. I want to split them into separate mpg files for authoring & burning.

I'm able to copy the .vro file to my hard drive, and if I rename it to .mpg, I'm able to play it. But things are funky; ie. even though it's 4 hours of video, the length of the mpg is reported as 2:16 (which is the length of the first movie).

I tried to split it in tmpgenc, but what I thought I was extracting wasn't what I ended up with. I can only assume that the header info in a .vro file is different than an .mpg.

So - is there a tool I can use to split a single .vro file that contains 2 tracks into 2 distinct mpg files I can work with?
Thanks!

I have the same problem and I had posted this problem before but nobody has been able to solve it yet. Typically if you record multiple episodes in LP mode, most authoring programs will only be able to see the first episode. Tmpgenc Author will see all of it but you only will be able to set chapters for the first episode so you can not do chapter skipping on the remaining episodes. For this reason, I only record one episode per dvd-ram now.
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=186889
Above is a link to my post to this problem.

[feh]

Thanks everybody.

I guess the answer is that I probably can't do this right now. I'll play around with some other tools and let the list know if I find a way.

[feh]

Found a solution to this issue. Panasonic distributes a program called DVD Movie Album that understands video recording formats (ie. VIDEO_RTAV directories and VRO files).

From within that software, you can export a program to a DVD video file.

[ammanbedroom]

I uses TMPG to encode the complete VRO into DVD format; THEN; I can manipulate the generated MPEG2 file as I want. Use NTFS file system to be able to handle above 4gb file size.

[feh]

Was there more than one program in your VRO file?

[ammanbedroom]

yep; I have used Panasonic DMR-E50 to record Matrix (2 hours) and CopLand (1.5 hours), and couldn't manage to get CopLand without encoding the VRO file into standard DVD using TMPEG.

Take care.

[frerin]

The thing you have to do with the .vro file is this:

1. Copy the file to the harddrive.
2. Cut the first episode out of the file with MPEG2Cut program
https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=177#comments
3.Remove the first episode with the panasonic DVD-recorder.

then just repeat the three steps mentioned untill all the episodes are in your harddrive. Allways check the file with dvd-author before you remove it permanently with the panasonic!!!

The reason for this is that the recorder has a unique method of keeping track of the episodes. This results to the fact that the videofile seems to have only one header and it's only for the first episode.

With these instructions you can go around it.