help ?

[haggis@home]

Dear all i need help , i have just got a phillips dvd burner (dvdrw228). it came with sonic (i find easy to use , its idiot proof) nero (i use nero for my mp3 burning) and something else i have not installed , pinnacle i think . any how i tryed my first dvd burn and it worked on my pc but not my stand alone dvd player (it is not compattable with dvdrw discs (good time to get a new one) so with my first test out of the way i thought i will burn a copy of jackass the movie but it said it is too big for the disc ? . i am very new to all this dvd stuff and it is so confusing so dont baffle me , i thought dvd discs take 4.7 gig so were am i going wrong ????? .also how do i rip dvd to the burner ?

thanks
haggis :D

[killingspree]

first read:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43066

then read the forum rules, the guides, the FAQs and search the forum....

by then you should have gotten an answer to your question and if not so a general sense on who to post a question!!

to be specific:
use a descriptive thread titel
do reading before you post
get to know the customs of the forum
you are new to everything here ok so it's confusing but all you'll accomplish with posts like this is to get ignored by the more experienced users on this forum.

oh and to your question: you'll have to be way more specific when posting a problem like this. as you discribed it there could be a thousand reasons why your DVD doesn't work in your standalone.
so i'll just make a guess: probably you've mixed up the write mode ...


regards
steVe

PS: welcome to the forums!

[haggis@home]

mayby ive got the wrong forum then , as i posted in the newbies forum , and as the forum indacates newbies . oh and i am new to dvd burning on my pc so all the tec jargon is a bit confusing . thank you for your post though .
haggis

[jggimi]

Well, welcome. We're usually nice. Killingspree got a little ...um ... frustrated .... because the title of your thread did not describe your problem at all.

There was a thread that started just before yours ... click on Rule 9 Alert (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43066) and you'll see why.

In regards to your question -- with today's technolgy, burned DVDs are limited to 4.7GB, manufactured disks can be "dual layer" and therefore can be 9GB. They actually glue two layers together at the plant.

You may get better suggestions if you describe the tools you're using. However, Doom9 has put together some guides to help get you started, such as:

Copying a DVD-9 to 2 DVD±Rs (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/ifoedit-2dvdrs.htm) and DVD-9 to DVD-5 "full copy" instructions (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/maestro2.htm). I found both of these in DVD and miniDVD Guides (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdr-guides.htm). Lastly, you probably want to peruse his section called The Basics (http://www.doom9.org/dvd-basics.htm), if you haven't done so already.

[haggis@home]

thank you for a nice reply and talking to me as a human , i will check the links asap .
thank you
haggis

[killingspree]

well i admit that it was not nice at all how i answered to your thread.

i just got a little frustrated, as jggimi said correctly. you know when reading through the noob forums there a lot of very, very similar questions as well as tons of useless titels.

anyway i apologize for being rude...
just don't say i didn't talk to you as a human, it was basically just some critics that i had to smash onto someone's had, and you were the unlucky one to happen to post the wrong thread at the wrong time.

regards
steVe

[haggis@home]

right i am getting some were now thanks to that riping guide but i have come accross a problem and i am now stuck . i decided to try copying tron and the film is split in to five parts :-
video_ts.bup
vts_0.bup
video_ts.ifo
vts_01_0.ifo
default
video_ts (this is the start up of the film i.e who made it)
vts_01_0
vts_01_1
vts_01_2
vts_01_3
vts_01_4
vts_01_5
from 0 - 5 are what i beleve to be the six chapters of the film the problem i have is how to merge them . any ideas ?
thanks haggis:confused:

[haggis@home]

any one ?

[mike4692]

how big is the hole disc ?

the vts_o1_** are the vob files for your main movie ( all Of them ),
you will need the ifo and the bup files aswell or the dvd player wont play , these contain navigation details for you dvd player to read ,
vts01_0 is usually the menu and the rest are the main movie

hope this is some help to you

if the whole disc is under 4.37gb in size you can burn it straight back to disc :eek:

[haggis@home]

thanks mike , the hole disk is 4.31 gig so how do i put it on the disk i have tryed but it did not work , i have been told that i can use nero to copy on the fly but i dont feel to happy about that as i have heard that it dont work to well . any advice would be cool.
thanks
haggis

[mike4692]

hi ,
1.Do you have your video_ts ifo file aswell as your movie ifo file
2.Does the intended movie play with Ifoedit
3.have you selected get vts sectors

if the above are true you should have a good structure to burn to disc.however it could be yous disc thats the problem ( cheap crap )
I dont burn with nero so I cant give you any advice on that.
One thing that bothers me you say that you wanted to copy on the fly, you can only do this if you were to copy from another dvd disc , which would have to be decrypted and only if you have two drives :p

[haggis@home]

Originally posted by mike4692
hi ,
1.Do you have your video_ts ifo file aswell as your movie ifo file (yes i do)
2.Does the intended movie play with Ifoedit (infoedit is a hard one i am looking for a user guide so i know how to use it)
3.have you selected get vts sectors (i am lost on this one)

if the above are true you should have a good structure to burn to disc.however it could be yous disc thats the problem ( cheap crap )(the discs are imation , are they any good , if not what ones do you recommend)
I dont burn with nero so I cant give you any advice on that.
One thing that bothers me you say that you wanted to copy on the fly, you can only do this if you were to copy from another dvd disc , which would have to be decrypted and only if you have two drives :p (i am thinking about getting a dvd rom)
in all honastly mike all i really want to do is copy dvds for my own use , i also have a dvcamra and supposedly sonic will convert the film to dvd for me ( i think ) so any ideas .
scott :D

[mike4692]

hi haggis ,I think you have picked me up wrongly , I was not saying you were trying anything illeagal, copy on the fly means copying from one drive straight to another without downloading the files into the computer but you could only do this if you had 2 dvd drives ( 1 to burn)&(1 to read ):confused:

I take it you have a dvd burner :o

why would you want to merge the files ?

[mike4692]

ifo edit is not that hard to get to work , I know thats very ignorant to say that but truly it isn't, there are various guides that cover it , try this one http://www.hkruse.dircon.co.uk