Author Topic: DVD questions... (Read 526 times)

Pfunk · « **Reply #15 on:** December 26, 2003, 12:56:57 PM »

Thing with DVD media is there is no clear standardized manufacturing process. I wish I could just tell you a brand name like Memorex or Verbatim. There isnt a single company that produces their own media. It is all outsourced to about 4-5 companies. You could buy Verbatim Datalife + one week and it will be made by CMC, then buy it from the same store 2 weeks later and it will be made by MCC. This is where the DVDInfo program comes in handy, you use the program to get the media info from a DVD blank and then go to http://www.dvdrhelp.com and look it up in their media section. Stay away from anything with the CMC media code. MCC is good so is RICOH

I will tell you that I have had my best results with TDK media, as it had the least amount of compatibilty issues with MY standalone. Yours might be different.

Pfunk · « **Reply #16 on:** December 26, 2003, 12:57:52 PM »

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdmediaform.php?dvdinfo=1#dvdinfo

Pfunk · « **Reply #17 on:** December 26, 2003, 12:58:35 PM »

Compatibility list

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdmedia

Nilsen · « **Reply #18 on:** December 26, 2003, 01:57:56 PM »

Vulcan · « **Reply #19 on:** December 26, 2003, 03:08:33 PM »

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Originally posted by SLO
explain then how come I just watched TimeLine, ROTK, Bad Santa, Last Samurai, Looney Tunes etc etc all in .Bin format in Windows Media.

how come i can get a .bin file and 5 minutes later have it formated in MPEG just like he asked.....by using IsoBuster.

and yes i was wrong....Bin .Cue are for CD's....sorry nilson....fugged up on that 1.

No idea. Perhaps you've got a codec that allows you to read VCD/SCVD images straight into mediaplayer? Or perhaps isobuster lets you mount cd images as virtual drives. Do a search on ".bin" and ".cue" in google if you don't believe me. My media player certainly doesn't support .bin format.

As for extracting the mpeg, yes thats exactly right. Isobuster is ripping the file from .bin cd image, there is no conversion done at all. All its doing is 'unpackaging' the file from the CD image.

If its a VCD image then the file you extract is something like avseq1.dat in the \mpegav directory correct? I forget what the SVCD structure is.

The only two 'odd' filenames you should see for video files are .dat (found on VCDs, which is actually just plain mpeg), and the DVD .vob files.

Heres a link for further reading Slo: http://www.vcdimager.org/guides/burning_cuebin_images.html