Video and jpeg files on same DVD-R??

[jay1028]

Got it. Thanks guys for all your help. I was getting ready to just put the jpg on a CD and the Video on a separate DVD. Now it's all on one disc.

Jay

[gwebb]

I'm trying to make a disc with DVD, JPEG PHOTOS AND MP3 AUDIO FILES. All works well on PC... and Mac plays the audio and photos... but the DVD application says something like: "APPROPRIATE DISC NOT FOUND" or APPROPRIATE FILES NOT FOUND."

I just tried the suggestion above: placing the VIDEO-TS and AUDIO-TS files in a folder named ROOT FOLDER... and now that won't play the DVD.

Help, please...

SPIDER

[usually_quiet]

I'm trying to make a disc with DVD, JPEG PHOTOS AND MP3 AUDIO FILES. All works well on PC... and Mac plays the audio and photos... but the DVD application says something like: "APPROPRIATE DISC NOT FOUND" or APPROPRIATE FILES NOT FOUND."

I just tried the suggestion above: placing the VIDEO-TS and AUDIO-TS files in a folder named ROOT FOLDER... and now that won't play the DVD.

Help, please...

SPIDER

When you look at the burned DVD using Windows Explorer, is there a folder on the DVD named "ROOT FOLDER"? If so, you made a mistake when following the instructions in Cornucopia's post. VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS must not be inside any other folder once they are burned to a DVD video disc. If they are, then you burned a data disc, and it won't be playable using software or hardware that is expecting a DVD video disc.

[Cornucopia]

Yes, "Root Folder" is the ROOT, aka base, origin, starting point, parent, environment. When you first open a disc -ANY disc- in Explorer, what you see in that first view (assuming nothing is hidden) is in the root. Look at jay1028's picture above. That's what we're talking about. There, the root is labelled "Volume 1" ( drive E: ).

Scott

[gwebb]

OK -- I get the Root concept (I re-burned the project--which looks like jay1028's)... and no problems with PC. My issue is making it play on a Mac. Here's my workflow:

- I author the DVD using DVD styler... which produces the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO-TS folders and files (could the Mac issue occur here even though DVD CONTENT plays on a DVD player and PC??)
- Next I use ImgBurn to burn the DVD -- dragging the folders above, plus the folder with photos and the audio (MP3) files to the menu (see first screenshot)
- I have the option of burning in several file formats (see second screenshot): ISO9660... ISO9660+Joliet... ISSO9660+JOLIET+UDF... ISSO9660+UDF... or UDF

My first try used UDF1.02+ Joliet+and ISO9660 -- as above... and the DVD wouldn't launch on a Mac.

I now have tried advice from Scott (Cornocopia) in another post: "5. Build/Burn. It will show "Content Type: DVD-Video" in the summary screen. And you can verify that the filesystem is UDF 1.02+ISO and you can verify that, when burning, the VIDEO_TS content burns first and the JPGs last."

This one works file on a DVD player -- launches the DVD menu and plays all videos well... and it works well on my PC (all JPEGS and and MP#'s show up and open fine). I HAVEN'T TRIED THIS YET ON A MAC...have to drive across town to the only person I know with a Mac to test it on. Should this one work? I'm hoping to a definitive answer on the Mac issue so I don't have to keep using "trial and error."

Ultimately I'll be sending my "DVD master" to a lab and having 175 copies made.

Gordon

[usually_quiet]

^^ It should work, but you should test with the software player on your friend's Mac anyway.

However, even if the DVD works fine in all your tests, don't be surprised if someone comes back to you and tells you that it won't play for them. Software DVD players and computer DVD drives don't all behave the same way, unfortunately. There is even some variation among hardware players.

[gwebb]

Thanks... good advice on testing it again. And I'm sure some people will have trouble due to hardware issues -- or just "operator error."

G

[gwebb]

EUREKA! It worked...

The latest disc I made works well on both platforms using the file system settings in my screenshots above (ISO9660 and UDF 1.02). It launches DVD player software on PC and Mac... shows all photo and audio files, and plays on my DVD player. I ended up finding a local Apple dealer and begging them to let me try it on a new machine.

Hopefully this will save someone else from the "trial and tribulations" I went through. Thanks for all the suggestions which led me to through this process.

GORDON

[Cornucopia]

Glad all is well.

Part of the crux of this matter is, I believe, a proper organizing of physical data on the disc, as it relates to the logical files and folders.
Since DVD was meant to be played on DUMB settop & automotive/mobile boxes (in addition to PC/Mac), DVD-Video & DVD-Audio (and VCD/SVCD, and CD/SACD, and BD) do not rely solely on full filesystem understanding on the part of the player. So, the strict order of the data recording becomes of prime importance.

For DVD-Video:
AUDIO_TS (if it exists) must be the first folder item, even if it is empty. Then, VIDEO_TS, then other folders. Within VIDEO_TS (but actually physically after the folders), The IFOs go in order first (with the VIDEO_TS file(s) always at the front of the pack), then the VOBs (in the same order), then the BUPs got at the end. Data files in those other folders go after all else. Not alphabetically, chronologically, or any other order will do.
This way, a dumb player can seek to hardcoded addresses and know how to read the disc.

What's necessary for this to work properly is an authoring and a burning application to be fully aware & compliant with the needs of those devices, and able to re-organize the burning order as necessary. ImgBurn, when provided with good material in the proper sequence, is able to recognize "DVD-Video" material and set things up correctly (even with extras added).

Scott