Converting home made DVD+R to .mpeg

[Tony in Hawaii]

I just bought Copy & Convert 3 ($54). The accompanying manual is very vague and general. The program itself is not very explanatorily friendly.

All I want to do is convert my own 20 second home-made DVD+R movie clip to .mpeg so that I can e-mail it to friends. Does anyone have step by step instruction on how do do this? I'm starting to think if I wanted something copied I should have invested the $54 in a bottle if ink, a feather quill and a monk. I'm basically getting an unexplained error message on everything I click onto.

 

Tony

Pahoa Hawaii

[Tony in Hawaii]

Aloha Brendon,

Your instructions helped me considerably. This is what I have per your guidence.

 

Under file VIDEO RM: SONATA.IFO.SONATA_DEBUG IFO,VIDEO_RM.BUP,VIDEO_RM.DAT,VIDEO_RM.IFO

Under file VIDEO TS: VIDEO_TS.BUP,VIDEO_TS.IFO,VIDEO_TS.VOB,VTS_01_0.BUP,VTS_01_0.IFO,VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, VTS_01_3.VOB, VTS_01_4.VOB, VTS_01_5.VOB

 

My homemade video (now on DVD+R) does play on any DVD player as well as on my computer.

 

Hope this helps you to help me.

 

Mahalo

Tony

 

 

 

 

Hi Tony,

 

I've read your reply, but it isn't helping very much just yet, because I'm not familiar with either your camcorder or your player/recorder.

 

Explaining a little, a DVD movie like you'd buy from a store is written in "DVD Video" format. That's a specially formatted disc with two 'folders' visible when you look at it on a computer with something like Windows Explorer (My Computer).

The two folders are named AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. The audio one is usually empty, but the video one has a bunch of files such as VIDEO_TS.BUP; VIDEO_TS.IFO; VTS_01_VOB and so on.

 

Now this DVD Video can be written on either a DVD+R or RW, or a DVD-R or RW. It doesn't matter which, as long as your recorder will accept the blank disc.

 

That's DVD VIDEO. Any recent DVD player should play this disc, regardless of what type of blank it's written on (+R or +RW, -R or -RW).

 

Some DVD recorder/players write their own type of non-standard disc, which will only play on that type of player.

 

Other recorder/players (and computers) can read and play FILES such as Mpegs or AVIs or .DIVX as well, but they're treated differently by Copy and Convert than DVD-Video.

 

This is why we really need to know what the format is of the clip, and what sort of output you need to produce. Does this explanation help you to help us?

 

Would you please put your source disc in your computer drive, go to My Computer, right-click on the drive and try to OPEN the disc rather than play it. Explore the disc, and tell us the names of the files you see on it. If they're not a bunch of VIDEO_TS and VTS files held in a VIDEO_TS folder, please tell us the full name of the file(s) you see.

 

Regards,

Brendon

[Brendon]

Aloha Brendon,

Your instructions helped me considerably. This is what I have per your guidence.

 

Under file VIDEO RM: SONATA.IFO.SONATA_DEBUG IFO,VIDEO_RM.BUP,VIDEO_RM.DAT,VIDEO_RM.IFO

Under file VIDEO TS: VIDEO_TS.BUP,VIDEO_TS.IFO,VIDEO_TS.VOB,VTS_01_0.BUP,VTS_01_0.IFO,VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, VTS_01_3.VOB, VTS_01_4.VOB, VTS_01_5.VOB

 

My homemade video (now on DVD+R) does play on any DVD player as well as on my computer.

 

Hope this helps you to help me.

 

Mahalo

Tony

Hi Tony,

 

Sorry for the delay, I have been very busy.

 

I don't believe that Copy and Convert will convert a DVD directly to .MPG. You would have to compress it to a DivX .AVI file, and then expand it back to .MPG - that would reduce video quality quite a bit.

 

Your best course would probably be to just copy the DVD and send it to your friends., or else convert it to a DivX AVI and send that.

 

The VIDEO_RM folder on your DVD is likely to be what's upsetting Copy & Convert, but I can't check because I don't have one to test. If your recorder makes a menu, that folder will probably hold the menu files.

 

If you can't just make a straight copy of your disc, copy all the files from VIDEO_TS into a folder on your hard drive, and use C&C to make a DVD from only those files. Leave the VIDEO_RM files out.

 

If you want to send AVI files, C&C will make a DivX AVI from the standard DVD you made above.

 

Does this help any?

 

Regards,

Brendon

[Tony in Hawaii]

Aloha Brendon,

Hummm, I should start from the beginning. I shot my 20 second video with a Pansonic VA-188 full size VHS Camcorder. I took that VHS video tape (fullsize) and copied/transferred the tape onto a DVD+R blank disc using my Sony RDR-VX500 DVD player/recorder. So now I have this 20 second video on DVD(+R).

So to answer your questions, I'm not sure what format the now DVD+R format is "in". You asked if the DVD+R is a DVD-Video. Well, the DVD+R accepted the video I put on it and the homemade 20 second DVD+R plays on my computerand on my DVD player. (The blank DVD+R did not specify that it was a DVD-Video)

When I navigate to the Media Selector left pane there is a right pane that correctly discribes what is on my DVD+R. (Which I'm assuming is the file) It reads: Movie 1, Format 4:3, NTSC, Audio language 1, unspecified (AC3 stereo). I tried double clicking on that in hopes that is what it will convert and I get Unspecified Error [0x80004005]

 

 

 

 

 

 

What format is the 20 sec movie clip in, Tony?

 

You've told us it is ON a DVD+R disc. Is it a DVD-Video? What files can you see on the DVD?

[Brendon]

Hi Tony,

 

I've read your reply, but it isn't helping very much just yet, because I'm not familiar with either your camcorder or your player/recorder.

 

Explaining a little, a DVD movie like you'd buy from a store is written in "DVD Video" format. That's a specially formatted disc with two 'folders' visible when you look at it on a computer with something like Windows Explorer (My Computer).

The two folders are named AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. The audio one is usually empty, but the video one has a bunch of files such as VIDEO_TS.BUP; VIDEO_TS.IFO; VTS_01_VOB and so on.

 

Now this DVD Video can be written on either a DVD+R or RW, or a DVD-R or RW. It doesn't matter which, as long as your recorder will accept the blank disc.

 

That's DVD VIDEO. Any recent DVD player should play this disc, regardless of what type of blank it's written on (+R or +RW, -R or -RW).

 

Some DVD recorder/players write their own type of non-standard disc, which will only play on that type of player.

 

Other recorder/players (and computers) can read and play FILES such as Mpegs or AVIs or .DIVX as well, but they're treated differently by Copy and Convert than DVD-Video.

 

This is why we really need to know what the format is of the clip, and what sort of output you need to produce. Does this explanation help you to help us?

 

Would you please put your source disc in your computer drive, go to My Computer, right-click on the drive and try to OPEN the disc rather than play it. Explore the disc, and tell us the names of the files you see on it. If they're not a bunch of VIDEO_TS and VTS files held in a VIDEO_TS folder, please tell us the full name of the file(s) you see.

 

Regards,

Brendon

[Brendon]

What format is the 20 sec movie clip in, Tony?

 

You've told us it is ON a DVD+R disc. Is it a DVD-Video? What files can you see on the DVD?