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[skr]

The title tells the problem I am having. This problem is with one particular DVD-RW. I can play the DVD using the computer DVD-player as well as in the Camcorder, but not able to transfer the DVD in Roxio MyDVD. Is it possible at least to copy some of the clips in the DVD using MyDVD. Or can I find out the defective clips. Though I do not see any problem with any clips when I play it.

[james_hardin]

Playing a clip is no a test of its' structure as Players will accept as many errors as they can…

Never had one of these camcorders that use optical media. (never will!)

Normally you would use Media Import to capture but that does take some time. You could try using Explorer to copy the vob files from the VIDEO_TS folder to your HD. There you rename them to xxxx.mpg.

Now they should be usable.

[skr]

james_hardin, on Dec 1 2006, 04:58 AM, said:

Playing a clip is no a test of its' structure as Players will accept as many errors as they can…

Never had one of these camcorders that use optical media. (never will!)

Normally you would use Media Import to capture but that does take some time. You could try using Explorer to copy the vob files from the VIDEO_TS folder to your HD. There you rename them to xxxx.mpg.

Now they should be usable.

Thnaks. Sorry for the late response. I did copy the .vob files in the hard disc and changed the extension as you said. But when I am using this file in windows movie maker or in the MyDVD it is coming with an additional extension .vob and not reading it. I think there should be some way to convert a .vob file to .mpg: some software may be. I do not know.

[sknis]

skr, on Dec 14 2006, 02:51 AM, said:

Thnaks. Sorry for the late response. I did copy the .vob files in the hard disc and changed the extension as you said. But when I am using this file in windows movie maker or in the MyDVD it is coming with an additional extension .vob and not reading it. I think there should be some way to convert a .vob file to .mpg: some software may be. I do not know.

Make sure that you have Windows set to show all file extensions.  If you don't, you may be renaming the file to XXX.mpg.vob.

[skr]

sknis, on Dec 14 2006, 06:21 AM, said:

Make sure that you have Windows set to show all file extensions.  If you don't, you may be renaming the file to XXX.mpg.vob.

Thank you very much for the clarification. I can now change the extension. But when I import the
file into MyDVD with this new extension, only the first clip gets imported. The movie is about 17 minutes, and I am
able to import only the first 1 minute or so. I was very relieved when the importing started, thought that the problem got solved.  

May be the problem is there at the end of 1 minute. Is there any way I can cut the movie and delete the defective portion?

[sknis]

skr, on Dec 14 2006, 02:10 PM, said:

Thank you very much for the clarification. I can now change the extension. But when I import the
file into MyDVD with this new extension, only the first clip gets imported. The movie is about 17 minutes, and I am
able to import only the first 1 minute or so. I was very relieved when the importing started, thought that the problem got solved.
May be the problem is there at the end of 1 minute. Is there any way I can cut the movie and delete the defective portion?

Is there only one VOB file on that disc?  If there are more than one, try one of the others.

[james_hardin]

I have never allowed Windows to 'hide' anything, so I never think of that setting, sorry!

I think your disc is done as VR format which allows the vob files to be fragmented and thus unreadable through normal copy or import functions. If you examine the mini disc with explorer, you would see a folder called VIDEO_RM. This would be present on a VR disc but not on a Video disc.

If that is the case you will have to use the camcorder to Finalize the disc before it is usable.

[skr]

sknis, on Dec 14 2006, 12:50 PM, said:

Is there only one VOB file on that disc?  If there are more than one, try one of the others.

There is another one. I will try to import that to see if the method is working in my computer. But this second .vob file has only one continuous movie, on the other hand the previous one has several movies (clips) (in one .vob file).

james_hardin, on Dec 14 2006, 01:26 PM, said:

I have never allowed Windows to 'hide' anything, so I never think of that setting, sorry!

I think your disc is done as VR format which allows the vob files to be fragmented and thus unreadable through normal copy or import functions. If you examine the mini disc with explorer, you would see a folder called VIDEO_RM. This would be present on a VR disc but not on a Video disc.

If that is the case you will have to use the camcorder to Finalize the disc before it is usable.

I do not know much about windows, so did not know this trick.

The DVD is made in video format. Earlier I used to make in VR mode, but  I could not play DVD-VR disc in the DVD-player, I needed to transfer the DVD-VR into MyDVD then make a DVD-video disc.

Thanks

[skr]

I followed the same steps for the other .VOB file. The problem is the same. It is importing only 12 seconds
of the clip. For the previous .VOB file I tried again and it is importing only 9 seconds. Yesterday I said wrong that it copied 1 minutes.

I feel the file gets spoiled while importing from the disc. Is there any other way one can import?