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I copied a RAM disc made on my Panasonic onto my HD using DVD Decrypter using ISO mode and then burned it onto a -RW. It played ok on my Panasonic. I then tried to burn the same image onto a -R. When I tried to play it on my Panasonic it says unsupported. Do I need to finalise the -R and how do I do this. I cannot find anything in Decrypter.
I have tried TMPG DVD Author 1.6 but the rial period expired and I cant afford to buy it.

I have just tried to copy the -RW disc (which played ok on my Pan DMR ES10) with Nero and that would not play on my Pan. or my LG4163 DVD writer. I am using Maxell discs in both cases. Am I doing something wrong in using Decrypter...I don`t know.
Can anyone recommend a free programme to copy RAM to -R. and the mode to use within it. I am just interested in copying the whole disc as I can edit in my Panasonic

maxell discs are RUBBISH.. I have had loads of coasters with them. R`s and RW`s. avoid.


All I could find were these programs here. If you needed full versions have a "look" around the web.

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67suissac[at]moc.tenretnitb/cassius76.html" target="_blank">JamesL

It`s nothing to do with the disc quality you are using -you`ve got to get it out of the RAM format and into a format other machines can understand, AFAIK< there are no freebies that can do this for you.

To answer your first paragraph, it sounds like you`ve just tried to burn the DVD-RAM across directly onto a DVD-R. Even though you`ve done that, it will still be in DVD-RAM format, and your player won`t understand the file structure (i.e. you can`t burn DVD-RAM onto DVD-R, it`s got to be `re-packaged` first-hence programs such as TMPGenc DVD Autor are a necessity)

This item was edited on Friday, 7th October 2005, 01:34

Thanks for helping. I am a newbie to all this as you will have realised, but if the -RW copy disc played on my Panasonic recorder then why won`t the -R. Are you saying that DVD Decrypter did not convert the RAM files.

This item was edited on Friday, 7th October 2005, 10:23

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Thanks for helping. I am a newbie to all this as you will have realised, but if the -RW copy disc played on my Panasonic recorder then why won`t the -R. Are you saying that DVD Decrypter did not convert the RAM files

I`m pretty sure DVD Decrypter won`t have converted anything as it`s not a converter at all, it will have just made an ISO image of what it read off the RAM disc and that is what you`ve burned onto to -R disc, which is why it won`t play -it`s like putting a DVD with data on it, the player isn`t `trained` to read DVD-RAM format video off a DVD-r.

Why the -RW disc worked is anyones guess-possibly because there is a VR format that you can use on some -R/RW machines (My LG4810, for instance) which has a similar file structure to RAM. I`ll bet if you try that -RW disc on another non- Panasonic player that it won`t play either.

What software have you got? Nero? NeroVision?
Try renaming the vro file to mpg.. and go from there................

Ste

I am using NERO Start Smart that came with the LG4163.

OK I will try D/L a trial of the programme you found.

Thanks for the help I can see now that the RAM wasn`t converted.

Nero Smartstart is just the name that Nero gives to it`s `Quick` interface, just a place where you can start all the parts of Nero from in pne little box. Thing is, the version you probably got is the `cut down` version of Nero, so you may not have all of the video editing/authoring tools that comes with the full version-There is a part of Nero called `Nero Vision`, it`s integrated into the full Nero program, but it`s really a `bolt on` for doing video work outside of just burning/copying DVD`s.

I`m running the full version of Nero 7, and if I go to smartstart, choose DVD as the disc type, then Photo and Video then make or modify DVD- Video I can imprt from the disc directly. Whether this works with DVD- RAM, I honestly don`t know, but it`s worth a try.
The problem with Nero and any video work is that you may well finish up re-encoding your video, and you don`t really wan to do that.

To be honest, if you are going to do a lot of this, save your pennies and get TMPGenc DVD Author, it will be worth it

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save your pennies and get TMPGenc DVD Author, it will be worth it

couldn`t agree more.

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67suissac[at]moc.tenretnitb/cassius76.html" target="_blank">JamesL

Try copying all the files direct to your hard drive with dvddecryptor (not ISO mode) and choose Nero`s burn DVD files option...


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This item was edited on Saturday, 8th October 2005, 18:57