I have two DVD recorders that I use for off-air capture, a Panasonic DMR-EH75VS and LiteOn LVC9015G. Recently I had to have the Panasonic repaired and decided to record off-air with the LiteOn using DVD+RW discs (it will handle +R/+RW/-R/-RW.) When the Panasonic was returned (problem - would not record 16x DVDs properly), I started transferring the LiteOn recordings to the Panasonic for editing. One of these disks contained two programs, and when the later program had been transferred I erased it before trying to transfer the earlier program. After that, the earlier program could not be played back but was still on the disk. I was able to copy the VOB files in the VIDEO_TS folder to my desktop computer HDD (P4 86Mz XP SP2, EMC7.5 came with a Mad Dog DVD-RAM recorder) and was able to use EMC7.5 to copy to another DVD-R disk, which would play the entire program OK on the computer using Sonic Cineplayer. Then I tried to play the DVD on several other systems with strange results:
1. LiteOn would not recognize the disc as having any programs at all.
2. Panasonic would play the video but no sound.
3. Another Panasonic DVD player would play video with no sound.
4. A Sharp DVD player recognized it as a DVD but could not play it at all. This unit can play DVD's from either LiteOn or Panasonic recorders.
5. My laptop (1.7GHz XP SP2 with DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive and external DVD recorder) has both Nero 6 (came with external DVD-R drive) and Roxio 6 (retail version) installed. Nero player cannot play disk - just plays a snatch with sound and stops. Roxio player can play disc with sound correctly.
Then I tried to capture the video using DVD Builder. On the desktop, the program won't run, needs an upgrade to the video adapter to handle DirectX 9 3D; I contacted Sony about this and they tell me there is no upgrade currently available so I may have to buy a new video card. On the laptop, the Roxio 6 DVD Builder recognizes the sound as AC3 which it does not support, and which will result in the sound not being audible when played on a regular DVD player (which I think is the reason the Panasonic will not play the sound on this disk.)
Issues:
1. The desktop has enough memory & HDD space but is probably not fast enough to be much use for video processing. The DVD-RAM disk can't play DVD-RAM video recorded on the Panasonic recorder.
2. The laptop needs a larger HDD though with the Sony DVD-R drive can handle most media. There is not enough free space on C drive for caching the video. It can copy DVD's OK.
3. Only occasional use is required to recover data from the LiteOn recorder, nearly all editing done on off-air video is done on the Panasonic recorder, which has a HDD. Most editing is simply addition of chapter marks and elimination of commercials, pledge breaks and other extraneous content.
4. The LiteOn recorder is basically used as a last resort, as it has had a number of problems over the year I've owned it - mostly with DVD-R disks getting fried because it could not recognize that it had previously recorded a program to the same disk, then reformatted the disk. Without the HDD, this makes it next to useless for any recordings I want to be sure of capturing. Hence using RW disks makes sense as I don't have to buy many of them, and can re-use them once a program has been edited. Also the LiteOn audio quality is poor.
What I would like: A video converter that can take the VOB files, convert the AC3 audio, and dump the program onto a regular DVD-R or DVD-RW disk which can be read by the Panasonic or the LiteOn, complete with the sound. Is it worth upgrading to Roxio 9? Should I install this on the faster and more recent laptop?
I'd also like to recover the video files from the coasters made by the LiteOn. Any ideas welcomed.
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I have two DVD recorders that I use for off-air capture, a Panasonic DMR-EH75VS and LiteOn LVC9015G. Recently I had to have the Panasonic repaired and decided to record off-air with the LiteOn using DVD+RW discs (it will handle +R/+RW/-R/-RW.) When the Panasonic was returned (problem - would not record 16x DVDs properly), I started transferring the LiteOn recordings to the Panasonic for editing. One of these disks contained two programs, and when the later program had been transferred I erased it before trying to transfer the earlier program. After that, the earlier program could not be played back but was still on the disk. I was able to copy the VOB files in the VIDEO_TS folder to my desktop computer HDD (P4 86Mz XP SP2, EMC7.5 came with a Mad Dog DVD-RAM recorder) and was able to use EMC7.5 to copy to another DVD-R disk, which would play the entire program OK on the computer using Sonic Cineplayer. Then I tried to play the DVD on several other systems with strange results:
1. LiteOn would not recognize the disc as having any programs at all.
2. Panasonic would play the video but no sound.
3. Another Panasonic DVD player would play video with no sound.
4. A Sharp DVD player recognized it as a DVD but could not play it at all. This unit can play DVD's from either LiteOn or Panasonic recorders.
5. My laptop (1.7GHz XP SP2 with DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive and external DVD recorder) has both Nero 6 (came with external DVD-R drive) and Roxio 6 (retail version) installed. Nero player cannot play disk - just plays a snatch with sound and stops. Roxio player can play disc with sound correctly.
Then I tried to capture the video using DVD Builder. On the desktop, the program won't run, needs an upgrade to the video adapter to handle DirectX 9 3D; I contacted Sony about this and they tell me there is no upgrade currently available so I may have to buy a new video card. On the laptop, the Roxio 6 DVD Builder recognizes the sound as AC3 which it does not support, and which will result in the sound not being audible when played on a regular DVD player (which I think is the reason the Panasonic will not play the sound on this disk.)
Issues:
1. The desktop has enough memory & HDD space but is probably not fast enough to be much use for video processing. The DVD-RAM disk can't play DVD-RAM video recorded on the Panasonic recorder.
2. The laptop needs a larger HDD though with the Sony DVD-R drive can handle most media. There is not enough free space on C drive for caching the video. It can copy DVD's OK.
3. Only occasional use is required to recover data from the LiteOn recorder, nearly all editing done on off-air video is done on the Panasonic recorder, which has a HDD. Most editing is simply addition of chapter marks and elimination of commercials, pledge breaks and other extraneous content.
4. The LiteOn recorder is basically used as a last resort, as it has had a number of problems over the year I've owned it - mostly with DVD-R disks getting fried because it could not recognize that it had previously recorded a program to the same disk, then reformatted the disk. Without the HDD, this makes it next to useless for any recordings I want to be sure of capturing. Hence using RW disks makes sense as I don't have to buy many of them, and can re-use them once a program has been edited. Also the LiteOn audio quality is poor.
What I would like: A video converter that can take the VOB files, convert the AC3 audio, and dump the program onto a regular DVD-R or DVD-RW disk which can be read by the Panasonic or the LiteOn, complete with the sound. Is it worth upgrading to Roxio 9? Should I install this on the faster and more recent laptop?
I'd also like to recover the video files from the coasters made by the LiteOn. Any ideas welcomed.
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