Can't copy VOB file?

[Hedgie]

Strange occurrence - I was successfully using AutoGK to convert my Sony DVD camera video to avi. Today i tried a disk and it was unsuccessful. I tried copying the raw files to by hardrive and the main VOB file was not able to be copied - I tried this on many machines multiple times - it just hung. Not sure what the problem could be as the disk plays fine in a dvd recorder and on the cam. TH eonly thing that was different this time is that I recorded it in SP rather than LP mode. I can understand that messing up the conversion software, but why would it make the file not able to be copied?

I would love any help.

[Chris K]

Hi,

Only thing I could think of is that the SP or LP option writes in a ms-dos incompatible file format.
Perhaps only recognized by the recorder/camera you mentioned.

Perhaps you can get more info here:

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7594_102-0.html?forumID=59&threadID=219406&messageID=2327535

Chris.

[fredfillis]

Consider yourself lucky you can read it on something!

Sounds like a corrupt disk. A couple of ways ahead on this. In no particular order, try this disk on you PC and attempt to read with isobuster. Or, try the disk in the camera and capture to the PC.

Good luck!

[guns1inger]

LP on a DVD based camera just means use a lower bitrate and compromise quality. Otherwise it is identical to a SP video. LP versus SP has nothing to do with your problem.

If it plays fine on the camera, hook the camera up to the DVD recorder and make an analogue copy using the s-video in/out port.

[Hedgie]

Thanks! ISObuster did the trick. Unfortunately my camera does not have audio in/out ports, so it would have been a hassel to record the analog. I have not qatched the entire thing, but it said I lost 80 sectors of a file that was 872mgs. From what I understand that should not degrade quality too much.

Thanks for all the help. Anyone have any recommendations on the best disks to use to avoid this in the future?

[Hedgie]

It happened again. This time I ran ISOBuster and imported the VOB files When I run AUTOGK it does not process correctly. Any other suggestions? Not sure how to caputre the video if I cannot read the VOB files - although they play fine in a dvd player.

Specifically AutoGK says that during virtualdub there is "Avisynth open failure: Script error there is no function named "write file"

Any thoughts? I really want to be able to edit this file!

[guns1inger]

That sounds more like an avisynth or AutoGK installation issue.

[Hedgie]

It was! Not sure how Auto Gk or Avisynth became corrupted - they worked fine last week. Anyways - thanks for the help = the obvious never occurred to e since the disc itself obviously had some bad sectors