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DVD File
Charles1
28-10-2008
Dear all,

Sorry for dumb question...

On a DVD video, will the files always be some kind of image format such as VOB or are they sometimes in MPEG 2 format? With a video file (AVI, MPEG etc) on my hard disk, windows explorer will tell me stuff like how many different TV shows are in the folder, the names of the TV shows, what are their running times etc. With the VOB format, it seems that windows explorer can't tell me anything at all about what is on the DVD ie I have to play it to find out.

Anyway I had two divx files which I burned onto DVD. For some strange reason, only one of the two files came out on the DVD and the weird thing is that having burned it, windows explorer showed the VOB file etc which doesn't tell me anything about the content of the disc. It was only when I put it in the DVD player that I realised that only one of the two files had come out on the DVD.

Anyway is this normal? Is it possible to have a DVD in the format show x (MPEG 2, 45 mins, 1.5 MB) show y (MPEG 2, 37 mins, 1.3 MB) etc or does it have to be the indecipherable image format?

thanx.
stvn758
29-10-2008
VOB is just the format that DVDs use, the actual video is Mpeg.

You can create an image of a DVD so all you have to do is click it and it will play as if the disc is there, whether Windows shows everything you want is between you and it.

Try renaming the VOB to what the actual video is.
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