I am in the process of transferring many many hours of late 80's early 90's motorsports from VHS to a Pioneer 220-s dvd recorder. (for the benefit of members here and elsewhere).
Anyways, after burning the first disk I found that it would only play on the DVD burner that I recorded it on ( Pioneer 220-s dvd recorder). My computer won't recognize the DVD disk. (I run Windows Seven and Mint Linux). Neither will recognise the disk.
I am recording at medium resolution. If that helps. Anyone know what I am doing wrong???
Also, damn near everyone here doesn't know it yet; but you all will want to see the videos I'm trying to convert!!!
Incorrect region? What media program do you use? Try VLC, or see if a dvd ripper utility picks it up.
In reply to Kenny_McCormic:
VLC doesn't recognize it in Windows or Linux.. I think the problem may lie with the recording., or the dvd recorder.
Although, Havn't tried DVD rippers yet will try tomorrow and report..
Thought; Is it recording it as a data disk with a video file on it?
There's a chance it's recording the discs as DVD-VR, I had a DVD a recorder that did that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-VR
What I ended up doing was recording the VHS to DVD-VR, and then extracting the video using MPEG Streamclip on my PC, editing it (mainly removing blue screen at the beginning) and then importing the video file to Adobe Premiere and mastering a new DVD.
Needless to say it was a huge pain in the ass. Luckily I only had 3 or 4 tapes to do (old family 8mm films that were previously converted to VHS).
if I may make a suggestion...
i'm going to presume at the mention of linux that you're comfortable around a pc
i think you should buy a digital camcorder that has analog inputs and use that as a capture device into a computer.
digicamcorders are so cheap now, and i'm sure their codec implementation is improved over whats in that set top box...
In reply to madmallard: That is a damn good idea I will do that next time it will make things easier and I will waste fewer disks!!! Also I thank everyone for the input!!
I was able to find out the solution to my problem. I have never used a DVD recorder before, and didn't realize I had to finalize the disc before it could be shown on a DVD player/computer.
It would play on the DVD recorder since they are essentially a PVR except burning to a disk instead of writing to a hard drive.
After Finalizing the disk It will play with no problem, apparently most DVD recorders are like VCR's they will allow you to view and continue recording on the disk until full. The finalizing step is the VCR equivalent of breaking the tab off to stop further recording. Except you can't put a piece of tape over it to reverse the process.
Finally, I forgot how long it takes to rewind a 8hour (yes they made them) VHS tape... Seriously, It took over 1/2 an episode of Pawnstars!!!
I have 5 more tapes to go!! Most of what I have will keep people here busy For awhile!! To bad I recorded over much of what I had that was even older...
I have sort of the opposite problem. My Race Optics camera will play back what's on the SD card on my TV just great. But when I transfer the files to a DVD, it will only play back on my laptop. Any ideas out there?
In reply to Curmudgeon:
How are you burning them? You need an encoding program to make a video DVD. I use ConvertxtoDVD.
That's got to be the problem. I've been using the native Windows burner.
IMGBurn usually is the first choice for DVD authoring, and it is free.
If that doesn't get you what you want, then you can try AppGeeker DVD Creator, converts anything to DVD.
Visit: http://www.appgeeker.com
I've used it before and it seemed like pretty good software, but then again, I don't do this very often.
Worth a look.
