Video RM????

[davewhit]

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

cheers dave

[Richard_G]

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?

[davewhit]

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

dave

[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.

[davewhit]

Ok going to try that now and get back to you

[davewhit]

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

[Richard_G]

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.

[davewhit]

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

[davewhit]

just trying tmpgenc dvd author but says 5 hours left will let you know if iut work though

[DB83]

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

[swkenney]

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

[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.

[Zen of Encoding]

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?

[highwaykind]

Same problem here (Philips recorder).
Aimersoft DVD ripper is able to correctly rip the thing and convert to several formats..