DVD-RW VRO to DVD in NeroVision Express problem

[ecc]

I am coordinating a project that partially involves analyzing hours of TV footage that was recorded on TIVOs on DVDRW and then converted to DVDR (I had nothing to do with this part). One of the discs we got is a DVDR with a VRO file instead of the VOBs so they would not open on the computers being used to look at the footage (PowerDVD on my computer recognizes the VRO file).

I took the disc home with me to convert it with NeroVision Express. Once the titles are imported onto my harddrive, NeroVision says that the number of titles is too large for a DVD5 (there are 12 1/4 D1 files) and it says that the total file size is around 7 GB even though they were copied from a DVD-RW (the original) that is only 4.38 GB.

Apparently DVD Shrink is supposed to be able to convert VRO to DVD as well but it would not open the disc, it could not find VIDEO_TS.IFO. The IFO file on the disc is called VRO_MNGR.IFO and I can't find a way to point DVD Shrink towards that file.

I don't want to demux the file because I'll end up with 1 long file rather than the 12 separate titles which need to be kept separate as the individual titles are logged as such on an Excel spreadsheet and must be coded into a PDF form as individual broadcasts and I think once the coders have been looking at several hours of footage, they might miss the transition to a new title if they were segmented into chapters rather than titles.

Basically, I just want to take the individual files within the VRO and convert them exactly as they are to a DVDR.

[usually_quiet]

You could try TDA on the problem disc. It can detect the individual programs and re-author them to a normal DVD format. It is not free, but has a free trial.