Trying to Burn All But The Menu

[RaftingBear]

Here's the deal:

My friend has a combo VHS-to-DVD writer. We took a VHS tape I had made years ago of Super 8 family movies and burned it to DVD. The combo unit made up a really ugly menu and tacked it to the DVD. So now I have this DVD with beloved movies and a tacky menu.

Actually, I don't want the menu at all. I'd like to put the DVD into a player and have the content start straight away.

So I copied all the files from the DVD to my hard drive. In VIDEO_TS, there were what seemed to be two sets of files. One is named VTS_01_0 through VTS_01_9; the other is VIDEO_TS. Obviously the VTS_01 is the transfer of my movies. Having read a simple description of the DVD format from here, I tried burning the VTS_01_* files to a VIDEO_TS folder onto a blank DVD+RW. However, when I insert it, my DVD player says it doesn't think it's a video disk a all. (I have no problem readiing the original, also on a DVD+RW.) So, obviously I've missed something important.

The original also has a VIDEO_RM folder, which I haven't yet tried copying. Since I obviously didn't understand something essential, I thought I'd hold off on further experimenting until I got a clue.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

[Radixmind]

hi there Rafting Bear,

you cant just pull a chunk of a dvd off and write it to another disc and expect it to work - they dont work that way i'm afraid.

presuming your freind has finalised the disc, it should be just like a regular DVD. in which case use DVDshrink to rip only the content and not the menu's. then write this in a reputable disc writing app, such as nero.

if you have any more problems, post what kind of software youre using - it'll help us to help you.

[MackemX]

I'd also suggest you use DVDShrink and grab what you want but also output as an ISO. You can then use DVDDecrypter to burn the ISO to DVD

[RaftingBear]

DVDShrink did the trick perfectly! Thanks so much! You guys are awesome!

--Paul