[andrews366]

Media Import doesn't sense my unencrypted DVD. It has a VIDEO_TS folder, but I get "Selected location does not contain content for this project type" I've imported other DVDs without a problem. Any suggestions?

Bill

[ggrussell]

What type of disc is it? MiniDVD from camcorder? Regular DVD recorded on a set top recorder? Some of these must be 'finalized' before they are recognized on a PC.

[andrews366]

ggrussell, on Feb 25 2006, 10:23 AM, said:

What type of disc is it? MiniDVD from camcorder? Regular DVD recorded on a set top recorder? Some of these must be 'finalized' before they are recognized on a PC.

Gary, It was a DVD-R copied with Easy Media Creator 8 from another DVD . The Disk plays fine on the Roxio DVD player...I just tried to finalize the disk with the tools menu, but it came back with "Please insert an appendable data disk that is CD media or DVD write-once media....still no luck with recognizing the files with media import.

Bill

[ggrussell]

Since you have imported other discs, I can only assume there is something different with how the original disc was made. The only thing I can suggest would be to copy the .VOB files to your hard drive and rename the extension to .MPG. This doesn't always work, but it does work for most.

[andrews366]

ggrussell, on Feb 25 2006, 12:06 PM, said:

Since you have imported other discs, I can only assume there is something different with how the original disc was made. The only thing I can suggest would be to copy the .VOB files to your hard drive and rename the extension to .MPG. This doesn't always work, but it does work for most.

Wow! Re-naming the file worked great. I didn't know you could do that--Thanks!!

[ggrussell]

I have no idea why the 'industry' decided to use VOB as an extension when the files are MPEG2. Glad that worked for you.