RE: Analogue to DVD to WMM to Web?

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Chris, as you found out, only a DVD 'player' on your pc can play a DVD. A CD
player/reader will not play an actual DVD. Why do you say DVD-Ram is needed
to 'maintain' quality? Your DVD-R should be equivalent if authored and
burned from a regular authoring program. The VOB files on the DVD are the
authored format (mpeg) for DVD.....you said you can copy them to your hard
drive but not play them in your media player. Movie Maker will not accept
that format, but you should get something like AVS Converter (at
www.download.com) and you can convert the format to any of the other formats
i.e. WMV, AVI, MPEG, RM, etc and you should
then be able to play it on your 'media player' and also import it into Movie
Maker and edit it to your liking. Good luck.

"Chris Brady" wrote:

> My ultimate goal is to convert analogue VHS/SVHS footage to digital and then
> upload short takes to a web site either as single files or for streaming. I
> have a Panasonic E95 with 160Gb hard drive. This converts VHS/SVHS analogue
> footage to digital very well indeed. I can then burn the results to DVD-R or
> DVD-RAM disks. However then I have a problem. My PC's CD reader will not read
> the disks. I have tried with another PC fited with a DVD writer/reader and it
> will read the DVD-R disk but not the DVD-RAM disk. I do need the latter to
> retain quality. Anyway it appears that the DVD-R disk has a number of files
> on it - IFO, VOB, etc. I can copy these to my PC's hard-drive. BUT then both
> Windows XP Pro Media Player and Windows XP Pro Movie Maker will not open
> these files to allow me play them or rather to convert them to WMV. Please
> help!!!
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