VRO to VOB Redux

[sambat]

There is a link in an older thread (fourth post) to a Japanese program which is supposed to convert recorded files on DVD-RAM to standard .IFO, .VOB etc.
The link is stale and I can't come up with any other source.
Anyone have another source?

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic339234.html

I can use VCDGear to convert the .VRO file to MPEG, but was hoping to keep the original Menu (unclear if the program can actually do this).

[usually_quiet]

VRO2VOB can't convert menus, but there none to convert on any DVD-RAM discs I have recorded. My DVD recorder creates a virtual menu for playback.

VRO2VOB is hard to find, but it was still out there a few months ago. Sorry to say I just don't remember where. It is trialware, and the trial doesn't last long. TAW will work for authoring from VRO, as well as some versions of TDA.

Cyberlink PowerProducer is the best program I have used for recovering video from DVD-RAM. It can cope with bad sectors on the disc.

[sambat]

Thank you for responding.
So, the menu only exists in the recorder - there's no actual menu on the disk?
If that's the case, I won't need the program.

[sambat]

To follow up.
I found that if the RAM disk had a single recording, the VRO file could be loaded into DVD Flick and it produce a working DVD.
Although the Panasonic manual indicated that widescreen recordings would be saved as 16:9, I found the video always indicated 4:3 thus DVD Flick video settings for the file had to be changed from 'Auto' to 'Widescreen'.

If the RAM disk had multiple recordings in the VRO file, DVD Flick would only convert the first recording (it seemed to ignore the rest).

I found a program by 'Dracore' that would open/analyze the VRO file ( now renamed .VOB) and segment it into VOB files per recording.

DVD Flick accepted the files and produced a good DVD.

http://redirectingat.com/?id=49X85&url=http%3A//tinyurl.com/c6l2q

[usually_quiet]

I'm glad you found a solution. Just so you know, Dracore doesn't work properly if there are bad sectors on the DVD-RAM disc. I tried it a few months ago on a problem disc.

DVD-RAM works a lot like a HDD. If there is a bad sector, the format allows a burner to avoid writing to it and continue a flie at the next unoccupied good sector on the disc. Compatible hardware players and PowerDVD can cope with this when reading a file, but most software players can't. Most software capable of importing VRO files for editing/authoring doesn't handle that problem correctly either. If you do encouter a VRO file that can be played by your recorder/camera, but won't copy to your HDD, Cyberlink PowerProducer is the only program that worked out of a half a dozen or so that I tried.