Missing File Question?

[Micetro]

Preface:
have a friend sending me Live band footage that was shot on a Video camera and transferred to a DVD for me to edit them down a bit for him....The entire Disc will play on DVD player on TV.

PROBLEM
is Can Not open VTS_01_2 File on Any of These? Have (3) Diff. Editor Prg's won't open it and when I play on Puter w. Power DVD player that part isn't available for Playing? So only have 3/4 Parts to Edit..

Any Idea what may be going On? Is it something on My end or the Person sending me the DVD's?

Thank you in Advance for Any assistance or suggestions they are gladly welcomed to help figure out *** is going on.

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Sounds like you simply have a bad burn or a physically damaged disc.

Tell your friend to PLAY the DVD before sending it to you for editing...

[Micetro]

Thank you for the info, but wanted to ask....This has happened on (4) Diff. dvd disc I've been sent from this person and each was a diff band and ALWAYS the same VTS file that I can not edit...Would a Bad burn always result in the SAME file being messed up?

Also if a Bad burn why is it that I can watch the ENTIRE show on my DVD player on TV, but not on a dvd player on Puter?

Pretty NEW at all this and Just a bit Dazed & Confussed over this...again Thanks to all for the assistance w this question.

[Micetro]

trying to get a handle on this so thought I'd ask a Basic question so could possibly offer some suggestions to person sending me these files...from what I understand believe he uses a stand alone DVD Recorder for transferring movies to DVD and NOT a Puter.

Question is: What determines that the concert video is divided into (4) seperate VOB files when transferred to a dvd?

Is it chapter markers or What?

Again Thanks for any assistance to All on this....

[setarip_old]

Question is: What determines that the concert video is divided into (4) seperate VOB files when transferred to a dvd?Compliance to DVD standards - Individual .VOB size limited to maximum of 1Gb...

[Micetro]

for that bit of Information..not sure that gets me any closer to resolving the Issue w VOB_2 files, but can now explain to sender why it's divided that way. Another good day as I have learned something new.

Will continue to delve into this reoccuring problem and ANY other thoughts or Ideas are Always welcome to figure this out.

[setarip_old]

Have you tried using a different computer - to see if you might have a hardware problem with part of your system?

[jshumate]

Saying "Puter" makes you sound like a dumb$$$. You might want to think about that. Using strange Capitalization Like This and dropping words like makes think you may not be someone we're going to want to spend a lot of time helping. Think about it. Yes, that sentence starting with "Using" is missing some words to make a point.

It might have been nice for you to tell us what 3 editor programs you used. What's the size of VTS_01_2? What's the size of the DVD? What was the DVD authored with? All of this might be useful to us.

IsoBuster is well respected for being able to (sometimes) read discs with problem areas. Finally, consider trying to decrypt the DVD on another PC other than what you normally use just to know if the problem might really be your PC and not the disc itself.

[setarip_old]

@jshumateFinally, consider trying to decrypt the DVD on another PC other than what you normally use just to know if the problem might really be your PC and not the disc itself.1) Read my post (#7 in this thread, immediately preceding yours)

2) Read/RE-read the initial post - The threadstarter is not dealing with an encrypted DVD

[Micetro]

Thank you for the suggestions and will try opening that file on a friends computer as only have the (1) here with a dvd player/recorder on it.

Not quite sure what you mean by decrypting it...all I am doing is transferring the VOB files into an editor to remove unwanted parts and rejoining it all back into a file for burning a new dvd.

as for Programs used with this VOB file...they are as follows:

Power DVD will not play the 2nd VOB file, but will the other (3)

Xilisoft AVI will not open that file for editing/converting
WinAVI same
Magix Movie Edit Pro 11 same

The error msg I get when I try to open this was File not detected or missing?

Just tried and Windows media player does play all the dvd files. So not sure if my computer or the copy method. Did learn from that it is chapters 10-14 that is in the 2nd VOB file that I am having the problems editing.

on a limited budget here so getting other programs to try at present time isn't an option, but will keep that one in mind for future reference.

Hopefully this adds a bit more info for everyone to digest in regards to this problem.