Hello!
So I dubbed all my families VHS home movies onto DVDs. After they were done, I made sure to finalize them. After they were finalized, they played fine on DVD players and on my computer. I copied all of the DVDs onto an external hard drive and tried to make copies. The copies will not play on the DVD players. The original burned DVDs automatically have a menu pop up when put into a DVD player, but when I put a copied DVD into the DVD player, it automatically tries to start playing it. Then the DVD player skips around the chapters without actually playing the video.
Am I missing something during the burning process? The DVD player sees the copied DVD, and tries to play it, but it does not actually play any of the DVD.
I am burning the DVDs on a MAC OS X 10.9.4
Thanks for any help!
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The way that is worded makes me wonder if a VHS to DVD device was used, otherwise how where these VHS to DVD dubs made? A VHS to DVD AIO often makes a different DVD than a true DVD image. It might be you copied the wrong version of the file to the external drive. Then when the DVD was made it was authored incorrectly.
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DVD-Video uses a special file system: UDF 1.02. Your copies should have that file system, too. Check the file system of the copied discs with Get Info (⌘I) on a selected disc in the Finder.
DVD-Video has a VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folder in the top level of the disc. Your copies should have that too (not buried into deeper folders).
DVD-Video has .VOB, .IFO and .BUP files in the VIDEO_TS folder. Set top DVD recorders may use VRO files, which other DVD players usually can't read.
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Also, if you look to the upper left on this page you will see 'WHAT IS' DVD.
This has information for the DVD specification, format and structure of DVDs.
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Thanks for the response!
After looking at both the original DVD and the Copied, the original is the UDF Format, but the copied DVD is formatted as MAC OS Extended. Do I need to reformat the Disc before Burning? Or is there a process I'm missing during the Burn Process? Or maybe a file to add to the disc so it burns as a UDF format?
The original DVD has the VIDEO_TS folder, but not an AUDIO_TS.
The folder has all three .BUP, .IFO, and .VOB files. Each chapter begins with the .BUP and .IFO, then there are one or more .VOB files for the videos.
When I go to make the copy, I burn the entire VIDEO_TS file.
Your first observation seems to be what I'm missing. I just need to know how to format the Disc as UDF before it finalizes. -
Thanks for responding!
I looked at that section and found a way to burn the .VOD file onto a DVD, unfortunately "Tmpgenc DVD Author" is not compatible with MAC OS X. Would you happen to know of another program that works on a MAC that will burn the .VOD files onto a DVD that formats the DVD into the UDF format? Case's answer brought up the format, and that seems to be the only difference between the two DVDs.
Thanks for welcome and again, thanks for the response!Last edited by dtroitlions21; 13th Dec 2016 at 00:58. Reason: Specifying a MAC OS X Program
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You may need to use a burning application that supports burning in UDF.
- Toast [$100]
- Burn (Brun as Data disc with UDF) [$0]
- NTI Dragon Burn [$32]
- LiquidCD [$0]
- DVD Image Utility (Two step: first create disc image file, then burn) [$0]
- Disco [$0]
Last edited by Case; 13th Dec 2016 at 07:52.
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Again, thanks for the suggestions! I was able to use LiquidCD and burn it in the UDF Format. Unfortunately, I'm still having the same problem when I try to play it in the DVD player. When I put the copied DVD into the DVD player, it automatically tries to start playing it. Then the DVD player skips around the chapters without actually playing the video.
Looking at the Info for the DVD's, they look identical, except the newly copied UDF disc now has an AUDIO_TS folder that's empty.
Any other ideas of what I might be doing wrong during the burning process? I've ripped DVD's before and haven't had a problem. I just can't figure out what is making this different besides the fact that it's a DVD that was recorded on a DVD Recorder... -
Does the copied disc play with a software player, e.g. Apple DVD Player, which is quite strict?
Originally Posted by dtroitlions21
Originally Posted by dtroitlions21
Are your blank discs any good? Could it be that your set top player simply has trouble reading the disc because of the quality of the disc? Does your set top player play any DVD-Video recorded on the exact same type of disc?
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