VIDEO_TS.VOB missing - burning failed

Hi! Does your original DVD contain a "VIDEO_TS.VOB"?

If it's not in the source, it isn't going to be in the output! Despite all of silly Ner0's protestations, there is absolutely no requirement for VIDEO_TS.VOB to be present (for example, look at DVD Shrink or Ner0 Rec0de in re-author mode). Take your output from (which I'm sure will be perfect), and run it through to make an ISO and burn it with . See for a guide. Regards

I'd recommend you use DVD Rebuilder to create the ISO image and ImgBurn to write to disc (either automatically through DVD-RB or manually). That way you can be sure it is working correctly.

@Digga If you use , you can either ignore that warning or just click yes and have your stream tables fixed (these are streams left over that you did not keep when you rebuilt your DVD). @jdobbs - FYI: uses mkisofs to build its ISOs, so they are perfectly compliant. Regards

If you keep using the same working/output directory for each encode the intermediate files are cleared for each. But, since the ISO has a different name for each -- it will still be there. That's what I normally do if I have a lot of discs to do and I'm getting short of space. The problem with clearing the D2VAVS directory is that some people feel just the opposite... they think it should never go away unless they specifically delete it.

@Digga Have you as yet determined whether your original DVD contain a "VIDEO_TS.VOB"?

Speaking personally, after having "invested" hours in an encode, I'd wanna check all is 100% before I threw away my D2VAVS folder. Regards

I'll add it to my list of things to do. I'll make it a "hidden" option.

update: VIDEO_TS.VOB is not present in the original movie so naturally it won't won't be there in the ripped files. it still seems odd to me that GEAR7 and Nero6 choke on this scenario. building an ISO via PgcEdit 7.x plus burning with ImgBurn did work well but my hardware player (Targa DP-5200x) didn't accept the output. it's sadly dying anyway so I didn't do any further tests and will wait untill I replace it.

@rpboy - the reason for this is that it is somehow referenced in the tables of VIDEO_TS.IFO This is incorrect authoring but does no harm. If you wanna get rid of it from the tables, open the project in , left click on any VMGM PGC, Ctrl-Delete and answer yes when it asks you if you wanna remove all references to it. Save (Ctrl-S) and burn. Regards