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    A friend gave me a home made dvd party from years ago and i want to back it up incase the original gets damaged but it has a video_rm folder rather than a audio_ts folder. How do i copy this as the backups i have made dont seem to work. the original dvd works on my dvd player but not on my pc, is there a way of re converting to a normal dvd

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    This is a DVD from a set top recorder. The disc will have two folders, VIDEO_TS and VIDEO_RM. Just copy the VIDEO_TS and ignore the other one. All the .vob, .ifo and .bup files are in VIDEO_TS. The AUDIO_TS folder is part of the DVD spec but normally is empty and most players will play a disc even if it doesn't exist.

    If your backups aren't working, you may be doing something else wrong. How did you back it up?
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    Hi mate just done a straight copy using alcoho lbut i notice there is 3 files in the video_rm folder, havent tried nero as yet and havent tried the way you mention as i have lost 3 discs already

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    Try doing a rip to the hard drive with DVD Decrypter in file mode and then burning the VIDEO_TS folder and contents back to disc. I know it is unlikely that it is encrypted but it does a good job on anything.
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    Ok going to try that now and get back to you
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    Originally Posted by Richard_G
    Try doing a rip to the hard drive with DVD Decrypter in file mode and then burning the VIDEO_TS folder and contents back to disc. I know it is unlikely that it is encrypted but it does a good job on anything.
    Ok mate just tried it the way you mention no luck, burnt it to a dvd+rw and when put it in the dvd player the menu comes up you click the square and nothing

    sorry maybe its the dvd+rw
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    Ah yes, forgot the stupid menu they always put on those. Load it into DVDShrink, Click Re-Author, drag the main movie file into the left window and click backup. I've just tried it with a disc I have here from a Liteon DVD recorder that has the same file structure as yours and it's worked perfectly.
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    when i click on reauthor it only shows the title menu for me 0.06mb nothing else no vob files what am i doing wrong
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    just trying tmpgenc dvd author but says 5 hours left will let you know if iut work though
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    If you just want to copy the disk, use dvd-decryper and select 'ISO-read' mode and create an ISO file on your hard drive. Write that ISO back to a blank disk with 'ISO-write'.

    The likelyhood is that your PC drive cannot read a dvd+R. If you have a +/- burner you could always burn a dvd-r disk from the ISO. It will work.

    Various programs can import the raw mpeg into your hard disk and then you can author a dvd from that.

    TMP dvd author can do that
    Nero can do that
    Ulead can do it with dvd-r's. Not sure about +r's
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    Here is a link to a discussion which has some useful info about this.

    http://groups.google.com/group/alt.video.tape-trading/browse_frm/thread/a3283324ba077e...59r2Q%26&_done

    If link is too big I made a tinyurl link:

    http://tinyurl.com/yqrobd
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    If there's no 'protection' (CSS, MacRovision, etc.) I'd use ImgBurn -> read mode; -> write mode. That would make a pretty much exact copy.
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    Originally Posted by olyteddy
    If there's no 'protection' (CSS, MacRovision, etc.) I'd use ImgBurn -> read mode; -> write mode. That would make a pretty much exact copy.
    What if he'd prefer a "reauthored" disc, with a normal video_TS/ audio_TS structure?

    Any recommendations on tools and methods for extracting the files from the video_RM
    folder into a video_TS folder to create a normal file structure?
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  14. Same problem here (Philips recorder).
    Aimersoft DVD ripper is able to correctly rip the thing and convert to several formats..
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