[parrori]

I use Easy Media Creator 8.

I copy a DVD movie or ballgame to my hard drive as a roxio image file (c2d). If I burn another DVD from this image file, the new DVD works fine.

But when I play the roxio image file, or c2d file, directly from my computer, it has great video but no sound.

Why can I burn to file to DVD and get sound, but get no sound when trying to play it from my hard drive using Windows Media Player or roxio?

[gi7omy]

I'm a bit confused here - c2d is basically an image file ready for burning to a blank disc with DVD Copy and isn't in a 'playable' format.

Consider it as a rar or zip file - you can't run one of those - they have to be axtracted first.

What may be happening is (I presume you're mounting it on a virtual drive) is that your computer just doesn't spot the sound section - just the video, hence no audio.

Is the sound there on the original ripped file (avi or mpg or whatever)?

[parrori]

gi7omy, on Oct 23 2006, 05:23 PM, said:

I'm a bit confused here - c2d is basically an image file ready for burning to a blank disc with DVD Copy and isn't in a 'playable' format.

Consider it as a rar or zip file - you can't run one of those - they have to be axtracted first.

What may be happening is (I presume you're mounting it on a virtual drive) is that your computer just doesn't spot the sound section - just the video, hence no audio.

Is the sound there on the original ripped file (avi or mpg or whatever)?

Ok. When I saved the file as a disk image rather than the requisite VOB, et al files, I guess I was expecting to be able to play the image file on my computer.

I now realize that when copying my DVD, when I hit "save as", I should have selected to save it as an ISO file, rather than the c2d. I thought the c2d file was simply a Roxio name for a generic ISO file.

Now I know. Thanks for your inmput, and I will no longer be saving to the c2d files but will save to an ISO file if I ever expect to view the movie off my hard drive using Roxio CinePlayer or Windows Media, etc.

[gi7omy]

No problem - C2D is similar to iso but better for mixed mode files is all - it's a proprietary Roxio format (similar to .nrg, .daa and so on

Glad you got it sorted out anyway

ps - if you slip in posting, there's no need to post again - open your original post and there is an 'edit' option at the bottom

This post has been edited by gi7omy: 27 October 2006 - 01:49 PM