Topic: DVD burning help

[Bubb Rubb]

I am new to the DVD burning scene.  My computer came with this program called Sonic Record now which, imho sucks.  When I try to burn the DVD's that are downloaded to my hard drive, the program cannot find the contents of the DVD.  Is there something that I need to do to "unzip" the DVD or decode it like I would a for a regular bittorrent to be able to use it.  I simply cannot figure out how to work this program.  If someone has experience with it this program, PLEASE HELP!  Also, because this program sucks, could anyone possibly recommend a good DVD burning program.  Thank you very much!

Hampton

[seethreepo]

nero is allways a good option.  trial version available or google for a crack.

dvd decrypter also has a burn program although I've used nero exclusively. I believe dvd decrypter is also freeware.

typically you put all files in the video _ ts folder and leave the audio folder empty.   

make sure any extraneous files suck as artwork or md5s are removed before burning.

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

If you use dvd-decryptor to burn, I think that you need something else to make the iso image.  I have been using imgtool which is pretty straight forward and will use dvddecryptor to burn for you.

[Bubb Rubb]

Thanks for the help...when I open up the video_TS file a couple different files come up such as a vts 01 vob, and an IFO and an md5 file.  Which of these files are to be used for burning the dvd?  Again, thanks for the help!

Hampton

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

It's all those files together that become the DVD.  The authoring process generates those files as a set that includes the menuing and content.  What you have to do with those is create an image that has all those files in a video_ts directory. 

do this:

1)    make a directory with two subdirectories, audio_ts and video_ts
2 )   put all of your video dvd files (the VOB files, etc) into the video_ts directory
3)    point imgtool to the upper level directory that you created in step 1

and that's it.  Imgtool will construct an image that can then be burned to disc.  It depends on your system, but I run W98SE on my machine with the burner, so I have it make the image split into smaller 1G chunks.  Imgtool will do this and write out a list file that is compatible as input for dvddecrypt to use as the source for buring the DVD.

[George]

Thanks for the help...when I open up the video_TS file a couple different files come up such as a vts 01 vob, and an IFO and an md5 file.  Which of these files are to be used for burning the dvd?  Again, thanks for the help!

Hampton

With Nero, i select to burn a dvd-video and drag and drop all the files into the video_ts folder and then burn it, works flawlessly.  Get Nero, it'll have everything you need and it's definitely worth it. 

[Bubb Rubb]

Thanks a million for the help guys!  Picked up Nero today. 

Hampton