Why is there a PAR folder in my VIDEO_TS folder? (and .layout/.lay files?)

[suklee]

bump... new question about PAR folder and .lay/.layout files

 

[suklee]

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[DAPUNISHER]

Unrelated to your problem, but buy a RW disc or 5, that way when your burn fails the disc isn't trash, when you do get it right you can burn to R with confidence and erase the RW

 

[suklee]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Unrelated to your problem, but buy a RW disc or 5, that way when your burn fails the disc isn't trash, when you do get it right you can burn to R with confidence and erase the RW

Thanks for that suggestion. In fact I bought two RWs yesterday... one +RW, one -RW. Not sure which is better so going to try both.

Is the procedure for burning a DVD RW the same as burning a DVD R?

 

[Dreadogg]

find a dvd 5 and use dvd decrypter to read ISO then write ISO use your DVD -RW to check your players for compadibilty, then find a dual layer and rip encode or transcode and burn till you get it right. TRY DVD shrink, I think its free and thier is an app that auto converts to ISO, then you can write the iso with DVD decrypter. dont be shy to ask more questions its not the easiest task to learn. later

 

[suklee]

Thanks guys, appreciate the help and suggestions.

find a dvd 5 and use dvd decrypter to read ISO then write ISO use your DVD -RW to check your players for compadibilty, then find a dual layer and rip encode or transcode and burn till you get it right. TRY DVD shrink, I think its free and thier is an app that auto converts to ISO, then you can write the iso with DVD decrypter. dont be shy to ask more questions its not the easiest task to learn.

I'm not quite following you here... I have on my Hard drive what I presume to be an already ripped DVD... basically its a VIDEO_TS folder sitting on my hd.

I wouldnt need dvd decryter then right? or should I convert it back to an ISO and burn it?

I simply want to burn this VIDEO_TS folder correctly onto my DVD RW, and want to know if its any different to burn a RW than a R disc.

Once I get this simple stuff down pat, I will move on to harder stuff, like ripping dvd5s and dvd9s

 

[Dreadogg]

do you have aim or yahoo if so pm me and tell me which one and your name and I will walk you through it!

 

[jfall]

My guess is the par files are there because the movie you are burning was downloaded from a newsgroup. .PAR files are used mainly with larger files on FTP's, IRC and Newsgroups, the .PAR is the main file which can be opened with a program such as smartPAR.. any 1 of the parity files can be used to replace a missing file or fix a damaged one. So if you downloaded a 4+ gig movie and missed a few files or a couple got corrupted, all you need is one par file per missing/damaged file.

If the movie/image of it is good, there is no need for the .par files, they dont have to be burned.

 

[suklee]

do you have aim or yahoo if so pm me and tell me which one and your name and I will walk you through it!

Sorry, only have MSN! (do you?)

My guess is the par files are there because the movie you are burning was downloaded from a newsgroup. .PAR files are used mainly with larger files on FTP's, IRC and Newsgroups, the .PAR is the main file which can be opened with a program such as smartPAR.. any 1 of the parity files can be used to replace a missing file or fix a damaged one. So if you downloaded a 4+ gig movie and missed a few files or a couple got corrupted, all you need is one par file per missing/damaged file.

If the movie/image of it is good, there is no need for the .par files, they dont have to be burned.

Yes, I recognize PAR files from my newsgroup days... but usually there is just one PAR file per CD/directory. what is odd is that i have a whole folder of them, labeled as said, and they are all 1488 bytes. I wonder if the 'vbs' extension in the middle tells anything.

Also, what about the .layout and .lay files?