Help: My Video Files Corrupted!?

[Beyon]

I'd helped a friend to record his wedding. I'm using a Sony DV and the files are directly burned into a DVDRW. After the event, I'd reviewed all the files and they all looked fine. Then I copied all the content to my notebook and checked that everything were playing well. I then erased the DVDRW. However, a few days later I found some of the files no longer playable in my Windows MediaPlayer which had worked perfectly fine before!

I'd done nothing on the files and my notebook had not crashed. But the files simply refused to work in the MediaPlayer. I tried the file in RealPlayer and it played only for around 15 seconds and the video freezed. Strangely, I discovered later that the files can still be viewed on my PowerDVD. It's the only program that can play the videos without any problem. I've tried burning the content of the VIDEO_TS as a DVD video with Nero. However, I got a warning message of 'DVD files compliance test failed. The resulting DVD-Video may be unplayable'.

I'm a bit confused on this as I'd never touched the files and they worked fine before. The most important thing is that I've to burn the video as a playable DVD. I can't do this with the PowerDVD of course. I would be much grateful if anyone could give me a hand on this by explaining to me what possibly had gone wrong... and also how to burn the files as a playable DVD-video.

I've enclosed below names of files in one of the VIDEO_TS that had gone wrong. Maybe this can help on diagnosing the problem. I don't know whether anything is missing that cause the 'compilance' error:

VIDEO_TS.BUP
VIDEO_TS.IFO
VIDEO_TS.VOB
VTS_01_0.BUP
VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_01_2.VOB
VTS_02_1.VOB

Thanks a lot for the help!

Beyon

[takeshi]

Have you burned a DVD and tested it in an actual DVD player?

[Beyon]

I've sorted out what causes the problem. I'd by accident rename one of the vob file. After renaming it everything works fine again. Thanks for the advice anyway. Cheers.

[psx_pirate]

VIDEO_TS.BUP .. correct
VIDEO_TS.IFO .. correct
VIDEO_TS.VOB .. correct
VTS_01_0.BUP .. correct
VTS_01_0.IFO .. correct
file missing here ... where is VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_2.VOB .. correct
VTS_02_1.VOB .. wrong .. there are no .IFO or .BUP files for this title

Are you sure that VTS_02_1.VOB is correct ... is it a different title set from the other .VOB's ... or maybe this is the missing VTS_01_1.VOB that has somehow been renamed

try playing the VTS_02_1.VOB with power dvd ... if this is the first part of your dvd then it has been incorrectly renamed ... change it to VTS_01_1.VOB and burn your disk .... if this is not the first part of your dvd and is therefore a seperate title set, then you are missing the .IFO and .BUP files for this title set (.VOB) .... (and of course the VTS_01_1.VOB is also still missing so you wont be able to make a dvd without reauthoring and in which case you will still be missing the video that was contained in the missing VTS_01_1.VOB)

i suspect that my first suggestion is most likely ... ie the .VOB has been incorrectly renamed

[psx_pirate]

oops .... i didn't see the post where you fixed it ... doh .... oh well i was at least right with my theory ...

[Beyon]

Yes, your theory is correct and that's the cause of the problem. Thanks for the advise anyway. Kind regards,

Beyon