On Monday 04 December 2006 17:54, Tim wrote: > Alessandro Brezzi: > >> Again speakìng of video DVD, the format is differen from that of a data > >> DVD: even if you put in this only two directories audio_ts and video_ts > >> with the data inside, your player refuse to play the resulting disc. > > Anne Wilson: > > I'm not sure if you are speaking of something different, but I have made > > second copies of home-mastered DVDs simply by burning those audio_ts and > > video_ts files onto a new disk. I've never had a problem playing them. > > They're supposed to be uppercase directory and filenames (I've, at > least, one player that requires it). I use dvdauthor to create mine, and they are always upper-case. > Also, the first file to be read is > supposed to be at the beginning of the disc. You'd want the files to be > written to the disc in order of play, so the laser mechanism doesn't > have to hunt very far as it goes from one file to the next (some are > awfully slow at doing that. There's also some issue about padding. > > A burning program with a DVD-video creation option ought to take care of > all that for you, just dumping files onto a disc in the hope that it'll > work is taking pot luck. It doesn't work well with some players. > Again, dvdauthor makes sure that they are in an acceptable form. However, it was the later stage, of using the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS directories already formed on the hdd to create a second copy that I was speaking of. Those can simply be dragged onto a DVD-R or +R and the disk will be readable. The work has already been done. Anne
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