Panasonic formatting

[Joncon]

I hope to transfer some home VHS tapes to DVD, and play them in my Panasonic DMR E55 player/recorder.

I am using WinFast VC100 U Video Editor with a PC running Windows XP Home Edition.

The DVDs I produce will run on the PC with PowerDVD, but the Panasonic puts up an error message "Incorrectly formatted"

I have tried formatting a blank DVD on the Panasonic, then adding the VIDEO_TS folder produced by the Winfast; that DVD also runs with PowerDVD but the Panasonic says it can't find a title.

I think the Panasonic needs the video data in two different places on the disc, one for the playback and the other for the thumbnail images it produces so one can choose the appropriate recording to watch. I have tried doing this, but it still says it can't find a title.

Commercial discs have a totally different structure; they don't produce a thumbnail but they autorun, I believe by adding some info to one of the IFO files. I haven't a clue how to do that!

If I use IMGBurn to add the VIDEO_TS folder to my DVD, instead of adding it as data, the Panasonic formatting is destroyed, and when I put the disc in I get a message saying the formatting is incorrect.

Can anyone please help?

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Just exactly what files is this winfast thing creating? What are their names?

 

If you're trying to burn a DVD Video disc then the 'structure' must be the same as the commercial discs you're saying it's totally different to.

[mmalves]

What kind of media are you using? DVD-RAM?

[Joncon]

Isobuster shows the following folders and files on the disc produced by Winfast:

There are three format names, ISO, UDF, and IFB. Under both ISO and UDF we have a VIDEO_TS folder containing files VIDEO_TS.BUP, VIDEO_TS.IFO, VIDEO_TS.VOB, VTS_01_0.BUP, VTS_01_0.IFO, VTS_01_0.VOB, and VTS_01_1.VOB. Under ISP and UDF we also have folders called ARCSOFT which contain another folder called AUTHOR20, which contains VTS_01_1.VOBU, and more folders Printer and Label.

Under IFB we have just VIDEO_TS containg the same files as above.

I am using DVD-RAM discs.

When I produce a disc using ImgBurn the format shown by Isobuster looks the same as that of a commercial disc, viz. AUDIO_TS folders (empty) and VIDEO_TS folders under both ISO and UDF, and just VIDEO_TS under IFB. Although the structure looks the same as the commercial disc, the ImgBurn disc is not accepted by my Panasonic, while the commercial disc plays normally.

[blutach]

I don't know about those extraneous folders - they are probably references for the player. But try using a DVD+/-R and not DVDRAM without those extra files/folders. It should play.

 

Regards

[mmalves]

From what I've read DVD recorders expect DVD-RAM discs to use their own formatting, so when you burn standard DVD-Video content (as generated by WinFast) on DVD-RAM they don't play. I bet that if you burn exactly the same content to a DVD-R/RW it'll play fine.