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DVD burning/ripping info needed. Help me help a friend.

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Savij

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My friend has a DVD of a concert that looks like it's a burned DVD. It won't play on the normal DVD player but plays just fine on my laptop. Is there anything I can do to allow them to watch the DVD on their TV? Can I rip it and reburn it in some way? If not, how would I go about ripping the music/sound and creating a music CD for them?
 
Originally posted by: Savij
My friend has a DVD of a concert that looks like it's a burned DVD. It won't play on the normal DVD player but plays just fine on my laptop. Is there anything I can do to allow them to watch the DVD on their TV? Can I rip it and reburn it in some way? If not, how would I go about ripping the music/sound and creating a music CD for them?
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Theres lots of reasons that DVD might not work on his DVD player, maybe the media is not supported, maybe that player has bad experience with +Rs (assuming its +R), maybe the bitrates are too high or too low for that DVD player. PCs will always be more lenient regarding DVD media and bitrates.

The solution may be complex because we/I don't know the particular problem at hand. If its a media issue, just rip the DVD to your hard drive and reburn it on a better medium.

If its a bitrate issue, you might have to reencode the entire DVD just to get it to work on that DVD player. Some DVD players dont support less than 2000kbps on VBR streams, or more than 9800kbps for video/audio combined. If that's the case, the complexity of the solution just went way up. Is it worth it to reencode to get it it to work on that player?

Whenever I make a DVD, I always work with the lowest common denominators, IE the old DVD players so I usually encode 2000kbps MINIMUM and 8000kbps MAXIMUM in my VBR MPEG2 stream for video. Audio I use Dolby Digital 5.1 and stereo at around 384kbps, with a maximum of 4 audio streams. I haven't run into an issue on any player yet, so long as I use high quality and widely supported blanks.
 
Originally posted by: Continuity28
Originally posted by: Savij
My friend has a DVD of a concert that looks like it's a burned DVD. It won't play on the normal DVD player but plays just fine on my laptop. Is there anything I can do to allow them to watch the DVD on their TV? Can I rip it and reburn it in some way? If not, how would I go about ripping the music/sound and creating a music CD for them?
Click to expand...

Theres lots of reasons that DVD might not work on his DVD player, maybe the media is not supported, maybe that player has bad experience with +Rs (assuming its +R), maybe the bitrates are too high or too low for that DVD player. PCs will always be more lenient regarding DVD media and bitrates.

The solution may be complex because we/I don't know the particular problem at hand. If its a media issue, just rip the DVD to your hard drive and reburn it on a better medium.

If its a bitrate issue, you might have to reencode the entire DVD just to get it to work on that DVD player. Some DVD players dont support less than 2000kbps on VBR streams, or more than 9800kbps for video/audio combined. If that's the case, the complexity of the solution just went way up. Is it worth it to reencode to get it it to work on that player?

Whenever I make a DVD, I always work with the lowest common denominators, IE the old DVD players so I usually encode 2000kbps MINIMUM and 8000kbps MAXIMUM in my VBR MPEG2 stream for video. Audio I use Dolby Digital 5.1 and stereo at around 384kbps, with a maximum of 4 audio streams. I haven't run into an issue on any player yet, so long as I use high quality and widely supported blanks.
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Thanks for the info. I can probably stumble/google my way through the bitrate stuff. What medium should I use. I've got a DVD burner now, but I haven't really used it.
 
Originally posted by: Savij
Originally posted by: Continuity28
Originally posted by: Savij
My friend has a DVD of a concert that looks like it's a burned DVD. It won't play on the normal DVD player but plays just fine on my laptop. Is there anything I can do to allow them to watch the DVD on their TV? Can I rip it and reburn it in some way? If not, how would I go about ripping the music/sound and creating a music CD for them?
Click to expand...

Theres lots of reasons that DVD might not work on his DVD player, maybe the media is not supported, maybe that player has bad experience with +Rs (assuming its +R), maybe the bitrates are too high or too low for that DVD player. PCs will always be more lenient regarding DVD media and bitrates.

The solution may be complex because we/I don't know the particular problem at hand. If its a media issue, just rip the DVD to your hard drive and reburn it on a better medium.

If its a bitrate issue, you might have to reencode the entire DVD just to get it to work on that DVD player. Some DVD players dont support less than 2000kbps on VBR streams, or more than 9800kbps for video/audio combined. If that's the case, the complexity of the solution just went way up. Is it worth it to reencode to get it it to work on that player?

Whenever I make a DVD, I always work with the lowest common denominators, IE the old DVD players so I usually encode 2000kbps MINIMUM and 8000kbps MAXIMUM in my VBR MPEG2 stream for video. Audio I use Dolby Digital 5.1 and stereo at around 384kbps, with a maximum of 4 audio streams. I haven't run into an issue on any player yet, so long as I use high quality and widely supported blanks.
Click to expand...


Thanks for the info. I can probably stumble/google my way through the bitrate stuff. What medium should I use. I've got a DVD burner now, but I haven't really used it.
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Theres a lot of media out there. 😛 I use TDK primarily... and haven't had any issues yet.
 
Originally posted by: yankeesfan
Then it has the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders?
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Yes, the Video folder is 2.91 gigs and the Audio folder shows up as empty.

windows media player 10 has problems playing the DVD but plays normal DVDs just fine. PowerDVD (not sure what version) seems to play it just fine.
 
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