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Old 2007-01-16, 06:47 PM
spiritinaphoto
 
Re: A good free DVD authoring program?

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Originally Posted by taparoo
Awesome. Re-installing it worked like a charm. That seemed obvious enough . Thanks a million.

Another problem seems to have arisen, though. I was under the impression that I could make DVDs that I dl'd from here (i.e. with files like .VOB format) with MyDVD. When I go to add these type of files (.VOB) it brings up a message that says "Runtime error: minute out of range -3". I'm puzzled here. Is it impossible for me to make DVDs like that from MyDVD?
What program do you use for burning data DVDs? If you got the files from this site, they've already been authored and do not need any more work...unless you only want part of the video on the finished DVD--don't do any more authoring on them! You've got several options for burning video DVDs from the authored fileset you're working with.

Option 1 is that you take the files into your main burning program that you'd use for your data discs (I'm going to presume you've got Easy Media Creator alongside this MyDVD program, correct?), chose the video DVD option, plunk the contents of the VIDEO_TS folder into the VIDEO_TS folder in the program (I've never used the DVD feature of Easy Media Creator, so I merely presume it is like the other burning programs), and burn. This will create your standard video DVD that will work in a vast majority of standalones.

Option 2 is that you stick the VIDEO_TS folder and the stray text files into a data DVD project and burn that. The resulting disc may cause problems in some standalones, and I don't recommend this type of data DVD for video.

Option 3 (my personal favorite) is that you start up a data DVD project, put the VIDEO_TS folder in it, then create a new folder called EXTRAS_TS and stick your text files, artwork, md5s, and other miscellaneous artwork in that new folder. This will create a disc that will play in almost as many players as Option 1, and if you format the paths on your md5 file correctly, you can test the files without moving them off the disc.

Here's what the paths should look like on the correctly formatted md5 file for option 3:

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8d50cba158b40a75dd32cada8964aef7 *../VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP
8d50cba158b40a75dd32cada8964aef7 *../VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO
e40bd45c55f783d519c2a5c9aa088e98 *../VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB
e11aaf0c14501bbf15d776a34218c205 *../VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.BUP
e11aaf0c14501bbf15d776a34218c205 *../VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
da29301176f55de40d79be5cba560d06 *../VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB
99ba41ff0fec88e3def109b6cb824dcb *../VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB
6c20fa2d2232106310d61dce30cd3e29 *../VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_2.VOB
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