format problems

[pankster417]

I purchased one of the first dvd burners back in the 90's. I converted all my VHS tapes to Dvd Neg R format.that player has since died.
now i have all my home movies on dvd neg r disc and can't play them. my player only sees audio files on the disc.
Anyone have suggestions? please feel free to email me as well.. jeffpankey@hotmail.com
Thanks

[redwudz]

Is it a player or a disc problem? Player would be easy, try a different one. Disc, not so easy.
I would closely inspect the discs and see if any obvious physical problems are visible.

I also would guess that the files are in regular DVD video form, VOBs, IFOs, BUPs? DVD - (minus) is just the disc type. We aren't talking Divx or similar?
The brand of disc makes a big difference also. Some cheaper brands didn't last too long, even with careful storage.

The audio in a DVD format is part of the video VOB files, so if it plays, the other should. The audio folder is empty.

You might try an extraction program like IsoPuzzle to see if the rest of the files are recoverable.

And MediaInfo should give you info about the contents of the discs.

More information about the discs would help and others here may have more ideas.

And welcome to our forums.

[Cornucopia]

What brand media did you use?
Are your discs "finalized"? (can check using ISOBuster, etc)

I ask, because assuming you used quality burning media, those (finalized) discs should be playable everywhere.

Clarify for us also please whether you burned these discs using a settop DVD recorder or a PC-based capture-encode-burn equivalent. The former should, with proper usage, create perfectly valid & common DVD-Video structure; the latter may also but can be all over the map if you don't know what you're doing.

Regardless, I would hope that you didn't throw out your VHS home movie originals.

Scott