Medion DVD Recorder issues, and questions.

[mijman]

I recently got myself a Medion MD 40570 settop DVD Recorder. It works very good at recording from cable/analog/etc.

It has varying record "speeds" of 1-6 hours, but I didn't want to waste that much disk space when I was recording something just over the hour mark.

I was recording my Laserdisk of Schindler's List onto disk. It has a runtime of 3:17. My plan was to record the first 3 hours of it on one disk, then the last bit on asecond disk. One done, I'd feed them to the PC and combine/re-author them with DVD Shrink.

Here's what happened:
DVD Shrink didn't like anything about the disk at all! I ripped the files and still nothing.
looking at the file structure, I noticed that the movie seemed to be recorded on the disk twice! Two complete set of movie files (one on vts01 and one on vts02).
I opened the vob files in DVD2AVI, I found that the recordrd screen resolution was 360x480!!!!
They play full screen, for some reason though, through the dvd players, and Windows Media Player.

My unit is the only one I've had any experience with.
Is this normal for standalone recorders to record like this? Half the horizonal, and why on earth would it record twice? Is my plan of piecing the video together, to fit all on one disk without wasted space (or encoding) doomed to failure?

[donpedro]

Is this normal for standalone recorders to record like this? Half the horizonal,....

Yes. At higher time recording modes they lower resolution to Half D1

see https://www.videohelp.com/glossary#Half%20D1

[hech54]

Not sure about the Half D1 nonsense....but it is fact that most +R DVD Recorder files.....AT ANY SPEED....give DVDShrink fits. There is a fix....as soon as I find it again I'll post it. I've used the fix and it works.

[hech54]

OK....found it. This fix is thanks to Movie Freak....ripping with DVDDecrypter most likely.


1. Rip the dvd in in IFO mode. Rip it to your hard disk, do each recording to a separate folder
2. open IFOEdit, open the IFO in it from one of your folders, Go to VOB Extra's, Create New IFO's.
3. when the window comes up, make sure the destination directory is in that folder. click ok. it will create new IFO's
4.Open dvd shrink.
5.Open files ----> choose the IFO in the folder you have just created with the new IFO's

[mijman]

Ok, I'll have to try that. I was planning to use Ifoedit anyway to add chapters.

Any idea why the video was recorded twice? Do they get merged?

I looked at a disk I recorded in the 2 hour mode, and it's full frame, and only recorded once on the disk. So, I'm confused as to why it does what it does. I'll just stop using the longer modes if this is what it does.