I decided to use this old thread I started.
I was PMing Wombler about this & thought
I would use this thread instead.
This is the media info of the .vro file from the DVD -RW -VR mode.
My old XP pro SP3 is able to view the disc in Windows Explorer.
I just copied & pasted it to my external HDD.
Then pluged that into my Vista PC .
General #0
Complete name : J:\-VR\DVD_RTAV\VR_MOVIE.VRO
Format : MPEG-2 Program
Format/Family : MPEG-2
File size : 488 MiB
PlayTime : 28mn 26s
Bit rate : 2400 Kbps
Video #0
Codec : MPEG-2 Video
Codec/Family : MPEG-V
Codec profile : Main@Main
Codec settings, Matrix : Standard
PlayTime : 28mn 26s
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 1978 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 3758 Kbps
Width : 352 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 4/3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.742
Audio #0
Codec : AC3
PlayTime : 28mn 26s
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Video0 delay : -67ms
Menu #0
Codec : DVD-Video
Inside the .vro container it is a standard MPEG-2 with AC3 audio.
This is not problem for VLC .MPC-HC, even WMP could play the .vro file.
This is the media info after DVDFlick converted the .vro file to DVD compliant:
General #0
Complete name : J:\-VR\Flick\dvd\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
Format : MPEG-2 Program
Format/Family : MPEG-2
File size : 1024 MiB
PlayTime : 15mn 22s
Bit rate : 9310 Kbps
Video #0
Codec : MPEG-2 Video
Codec/Family : MPEG-V
Codec profile : Main@Main
Codec settings, Matrix : Standard
PlayTime : 15mn 22s
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 8408 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 8894 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.859
Audio #0
Codec : AC3
PlayTime : 15mn 22s
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Menu #0
Codec : DVD-Video
I didn’t burn it to a DVD but it worked in VLC from the HDD.
I even made an .iso with ImgBurn .
It didn’t recognize the :
.Sys-Reserved-RW-Bitmap.GROW
.SysReservedFile
These are just the DVD recorders menu & edit files .
DVD recorder menus are pretty basic so if I wanted one
I could easily create one just as good.
ImgBurn was able to put the DVD_RTAV folder with these files inside:
VR_MANGR.IFO
VR_MOVIE.VRO
Into an .iso .
I write this to another DVD -RW Verbatim just like the one that I used in the DVD recorder .
Vista can view this in Windows Explorer. So it has to be what the DVD recorder wrote the data to the disc in that Vista or Windows 7 can’t view.
They don’t have a problem with the files themselves .
Even on the ImgBurn written DVD.
I would like to know what XP pro & even Windows 98SE has that can view this DVD when the newer OS’s can’t.
It was also discussed in this thread:
I tried a lot of things & read on several forums but never found a solution.
At least not for Vista & more recently Windows 7.