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Apparently, someone with more money than sense felt it necessary to shoot a wheel of cheese into space and then retrieve the contents. http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20101209/sc_space/wheelofcheeselaunchedintospaceonprivatespacecraft This news, combined with earlier news about an iPhone made with an ancient meteorite and T-Rex tooth, makes me give pause, especially at this time of year. People are starving in some parts of the world. That cheese could have served a far more humanitarian purpose than as some cosmic joke. I'm all for doing things weird, but, there is a limit, even for me.

Another TV series DVD surprise for me was to discover the recent release of the second and final season of the War Of The Worlds show. Only about 5 years after the first season set was released.

Yeah, I knew of Terrahawks and that it was a Gerry Anderson production, but, I'd never seen it, no.

I remember Silverhawks, if anyone else does.

Yeah, I taped the one episode I thought was good from the series; I wasn't a fan. Time To Kill that aired Monday.

If you're just interested in saving YouTube videos, I use save2PC Light, which is free. It saves them directly in a native format. And the paid version supposedly save the files in HD.

OMG! I was totally floored to learn this series was on DVD. I remember this Gerry Anderson entry from about 15 years ago as the show that aired after Babylon 5 in my syndication market station.

If you really want to "turn off the sound" then I would say the following should work. Delete the two .WAV files in the C:\Program Files\ImgBurn\Sounds folder. I've not actually tried this, so, I can't say if ImgBurn won't return an error message if they're missing or not.

You should have mentioned that in your post.

ImgBurn can make the CD with MP3 files, but, I don't know if it can with .CDA files. I've never tried that. However, you have to take an extra step to create the BIN file. Use the Create CUE tool under Tools and drag and drop the .CDA/.MP3 files. If ImgBurn doesn't support .CDA, then it should tell you, I would think. Add any metadata, etc. to the .CUE file and create the .CUE file. Load the .CUE file for burning (If you already created the CUE file with some other program, you should be able to just load that CUE file for burning.) and you'll need to actually burn the CUE file to a disc. So, use a CD-RW or if you want to use a CD-R, go ahead. After it's burned, use the Read Mode/Create image file from disc in ImgBurn and read the disc you just burned to an image file. It will create BIN/CUE automatically from the disc. I use Alcohol 52% and, if my memory serves me correctly, it does support mounting CUE files as virtual drives. I have used it long enough to remember a point when it didn't, though.

It will show in the log window something like Reading Track 01 of X, if memory serves me correctly. If it's reading any tracks off of a DVD video disc, it will read it to a BIN file.

No, I never meant to imply anything that you were using rewritable discs. I had said I thought I had tried writing a BIN file to a rewritable disc. That's what I meant. The type of disc you're reading from has on bearing on what file type the disc is read to, as far as I know. Only the contents on that disc would matter because it would depend on what created that disc. If a stand alone DVD recorder made it, it may have that Video_RM folder you mentioned. Because I can't think of anything that would create a Video_RM folder. If that's the case, that is most likely is what is causing a BIN file to be read instead of an ISO. If you discover during a read it's reading multiple tracks and you know it's a DVD video disc that plays in a standard DVD player, stop reading the disc and use the Build mode steps I mentioned earlier to drag and drop the VIDEO_TS and any other folders and files to a Build job and create then burn that created image.

Sorry, I caused a bit of confusion there. I had forgotten MDS files were created for BIN files, too. I always thought those type of discs made BIN/CUE files instead of ISO/MDS. Near as I can remember, even if you opened the MDS file for burning, the BIN file won't burn properly. I can't say this for sure though, as I can't remember ever actually trying to burn one to a rewritable disc and see. My memory SAYS I did that and the resulting disc didn't play properly. But, I can't be sure.

If you're getting files in ISO/MDS format, then, I don't see what the problem is. I thought you were getting BIN/CUE files out of trying to read the discs to file format. As for all stand alone recorders recording in multisession format, that may be true now. But, the oldest Panasonic I had apparently didn't do that as I never came across a BIN/CUE read until I tried reading them.

It is most likely the fault of the process used to copy the home videos to DVD. My Panasonic stand alone DVD recorder I use to copy tapes and TV to DVD does the same thing. It only creates BIN files from the discs. What you can do is use ImgBurn's Build mode and drag and drop the VIDEO_TS folder from these discs into a build job. Then, create the disc which will be a standard playing DVD in an ISO/MDS format. If there are any files in the disc root directory or any other folders, be sure to drag and drop them, too, to be safe. If the disc is not a DVD video disc, you can do the same steps above, dragging and dropping all the files and folders into a build job and then create it.

I can recommend the one that LightningUK recommended for me. The LiteOn iHAS324 B internal SATA drive. I've only had it for a week so I can't say what my experience with it really is yet. If you're going to get that drive, make sure it's the B version is what he told me. If you're in the US, you can get it where I got it, from NewEgg.com here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106334&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_- I used to recommend NEC/Optiarc now Sony/Optiarc drives, but, the last two I've had died within 2 months and 5 months respectively. Whereas before, I was getting a good 2 years out of NEC drives. My thus far experience with the LiteOn has been that 8x DVD+R DL's don't really write much beyond 5.7x average write rate. The 6x DVD-RW actually writes at 4x until after about 2 minutes when it then goes to 6x. 8x DVD+RW does something similar, writing at 6x for about 2 minutes then it goes to 8. Anything that takes less than 2 minutes to burn burns at the said lower rate. The NEC's I had before never had these step down speeds. 8x DVD+R DL wrote at 8x for a good deal longer than the LiteOn. And 6x DVD-RW wrote at 6x the entire time; 8x DVD+RW wrote at 8x the entire time. But, with the Optiarcs now dying on me so quickly, I really can't recommend them. Well, I wouldn't get another one. Here's to hoping that this LiteOn does better!

The sad thing is Memorex used to make a quality product. I still have Memorex CD-RW's that still work today almost 10 years after purchasing. Memorex apparently uses MKM for their DVD+R product, so, they may make a decent DVD+R disc. I know their DVD-R are CMC junk, as are their DVD-RAM's. From personal experience.

The MDS file is as far as I know mostly to contain the layer break information on dual layer disc images. Or if your image is split into multiple parts. However, since you say you can just double click on the ISO and it plays on your PC, you probably don't need the MDS file, then. If you discover later you do need the MDS file, you can probably just recreate it with the ImgBurn tool to generate an MDS file by pointing it to the necessary ISO. Don't know what a .db file is. As far as I know, ImgBurn doesn't create such a file. As far as to how to layer out your folders to hold episodic DVD's, that's entirely your choice. I would, if I was doing it, create folders based on the disc names. For instance, I'd create a root folder with the name of the TV series. Then, subfolders in the root directory named based on the disc names, such as Disc 1, Disc 2, etc. However, since your ISO files appear to be named after the disc names, which is, of course, entirely based on what the Disc Label is, you might want to name your folders Episodes 1 through 8, Episodes 9 Through 15, etc. However, that decision is really entirely yours to make.

It seems that people may actually becoming educated when it comes to Memorex DVD-R's. Staples is having a sale this Saturday only. 80% off a cakestack of 100! Normally $59.99, Saturday only $9.99! Looks like Staples has much overstock on Memorex DVD-R, which may indicate people are actually learning not to use those as long as Memorex keeps using CMC.

What is the source of your TV episodes? DVR? Video tape? Yes, I said video tape. Without knowing the source, it's really not possible to tell you what software you'll need as you may need some hardware as well.

Use some decent media not that CMC, that is considered the bottom of the barrel. Yeah, use something like Verbatim DVD-R or Taiyo Yuden. In the long run, you'll be glad you went for something with a higher quality other than brands like Memorex DVD-R, which use CMC. Of course, even the good guys use it, too. Verbatim uses CMC for their CD-R's, believe it or not.

Well, I admit, you can't argue with results. If they work for you, they may work for someone else.

I agree. Like I said earlier, it must be either the player or the TV that's doing the translating.

The steps as described do produce a disc with a VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folder. And, to my utter and complete astonishment, the steps as described produce a disc that... totally fails. I checked to make sure the source contents were in fact PAL and the Playstation 2 returned the message TV System Does Not Match, which means it's a PAL. I did the steps as described and got the same message, which means the disc produced by those steps is also still PAL. The bottom line is these steps may work for you and more power to you. However, these steps do not work.

Provide a detailed step by step instruction list and I will try and put this theory to rest by actually testing it. I have several PAL discs I can test with.