DVD to USB

[Ken Veal]

I have made a DVD with VS 11+ consisting of jpeg images from a still cam and still s from other DVDs I have I made with VS.There is a transition between
every photo and the DVD is 4.02 GB.I want to copy the DVD to an 8GB USB stick.I have tried right clicking on the DVD drive-copy then R/C on the USB drive and paste.A message then shows telling me it cant create or replace the VIDEO_TS.Cant find specified path,make sure you specify the correct path.Where do I go from here........................Ken

[mitchell65]

Hi Kenneth
Try right clicking the DVD drive, then choose open. This should reveal the two folders Video_TS and Audio_TS. Highlight these two folders and drag and drop to your USB Stick.

[Accolades]

Hi,

I am sure their is a perfectly good reason for copying the DVD to a USB Key ?

May I suggest you create an ISO file of the finished DVD and copy that to you USB Key?

You can then mount the ISO file using util like DEAMONTOOLS to create a virtual DVD drive on your pc then mount and play from the virtual DVD?

[mitchell65]

Hi,

I am sure their is a perfectly good reason for copying the DVD to a USB Key ?

May I suggest you create an ISO file of the finished DVD and copy that to you USB Key?

You can then mount the ISO file using util like DEAMONTOOLS to create a virtual DVD drive on your pc then mount and play from the virtual DVD?

Easier to just play the DVD if ou want to view on the PC. I wonder if Ken wants to try a USB stick direct into his TV?
No doubt, all will be revealed when he returns here!
BTW Accolades, isn't it about time you got rid of that old rug and got a bit more modern?

[Ken Veal]

I have spent along time editing each jpeg and titling etc and wanted a back up.Another reason for the USB is that I can play that through a small media box and
connect to any TV via RCA sockets, not every one has a DVD connected to a TV in every room.It can also be played (if I get it sorted) on a PC with out a DVD rom drive.

[Accolades]

I have spent along time editing each jpeg and titling etc and wanted a back up.Another reason for the USB is that I can play that through a small media box and
connect to any TV via RCA sockets, not every one has a DVD connected to a TV in every room.It can also be played (if I get it sorted) on a PC with out a DVD rom drive.

Will your media box recognise .ISO images?

I use the Xtremer http://www.xtreamer.net/ and have a couple of external USB drives with over 500 movies in various formts. AVI/DIVX, MPG and ISO images.

[Ken Veal]

It is an Emprex digital media box that supports jpeg, bmp,gif, mp3 wma, and Mpeg 1 ,2 and 4, vob files must be converted to mpeg 2

[Ken Veal]

Went to the DVD drive, clicked open, in the Video_TS folder there was –
Video_TS 23 MB Vid TS_BUP 32 KB Vid TS Ifo X 2 32KB + 52 KB
VTS_01_0 BUP and VTS_00 1, 2 , 3, 4. and 5 (there is no audio on the DVD)
What now ?

[Ken Veal]

The TS and VTS files are all .VOB which the media box wants changed to MPEG 2

[Accolades]

Went to the DVD drive, clicked open, in the Video_TS folder there was –
Video_TS 23 MB Vid TS_BUP 32 KB Vid TS Ifo X 2 32KB + 52 KB
VTS_01_0 BUP and VTS_00 1, 2 , 3, 4. and 5 (there is no audio on the DVD)
What now ?

VTS_01.VOB will link to all the rest when playing.
I believe the VOB files are already MPG 2 format.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Ken

This seems a little complicated just to backup the video.

Do you still have access to the project, the VSP file. if so then create a Pal-DVD/Mpeg 2 file.
This is the file that you may have made in order to burn the DVD. (depending which work flow you used)

Simply save the mpeg 2 file to the memory stick.

Otherwise, import the dvd using the Insert- DVD/DVD-VR option, select to import the titles.
The resulting files being saved your working folder as mpeg 2 files.
Copy these to the memory stick.

[Ken Veal]

I opened up the DVD drive and dragged the Video_TS folder to the Video_TS folder(already installed on the USB drive) and all 4.02GB was copied to the USB
stick.So thanks for all your help-but it does not play in the media box,It recognises the USB but does not play the video.

[Trevor Andrew]

It is an Emprex digital media box that supports jpeg, bmp,gif, mp3 wma, and Mpeg 1 ,2 and 4, vob files must be converted to mpeg 2

Hi Ken

You said that Vob files would not play using the Emprex box.
However it does support Mpeg2 files. Unfortunately you will not be able to show the menu as they are part of the DVD/TS files structure.

Follow my instructions to create the Mpegs I posted earlier.

I still do not really understand why you would want to view the dvd via the memory stick?????????

[Ken Veal]

Can only repeat what I said earlier re the reason for backing the DVD up to different media -I have spent along time editing each jpeg and titling etc and wanted a back up.Another reason for the USB is that I can play that through a small media box and
connect to any TV via RCA sockets, not every one has a DVD connected to a TV in every room.It can also be played (if I get it sorted) on a PC with out a DVD rom drive.I only want to view it like a digital picture frame but using a TV.
Think I need some clarification on DVD file structure-
1 Is a DVD(or at least the one I made with VS) MPEG 2 If so why is not the media box playing them.
2 Can a DVD be anything else
3 Does every DVD have Video_TS files and what do they do/ made up of
4 Does a DVD that has no video but only stills in it still have a Video_TS folder
5 Where do VOB files fit in to all this.
6 What is the difference between creating an mpeg file prior to burning and saving that to the USB drive and copying a DVD which is mpeg

[Ken Berry]

Think I need some clarification on DVD file structure-
1 Is a DVD(or at least the one I made with VS) MPEG 2 If so why is not the media box playing them.

Part of the confusion here is caused by your generic use of the term 'DVD'. In fact, you need to be more specific, and here I think you mean 'video DVD'. For that, there is an international standard, and a video DVD according to that standard will always involve use of mpeg-2 (and in some limited cases mpeg-1).

2 Can a DVD be anything else

A 'DVD' is just a round disc which can be used for storage of data. (The V in DVD stands for Versatile, not/not Video.) There can be a data DVD, a video DVD, and an audio DVD. One cause for further confusion, though, is that there can be sub-divisions. For example, a data DVD can in fact contain video (such as a DivX disc), photos or audio -- though in these cases, the video is burned simply as data, rather than with a program which applies special code at the beginning of the disc which a DVD player will recognise and play the disc accordingly. Muddying the water still further is the more recent 'hybrid DVD' which burns high definition AVCHD in a pseudo-Blu-Ray BDMV folder structure but to a standard DVD blank disc. Such discs can only be played on players rated to play such discs.

3 Does every DVD have Video_TS files and what do they do/ made up of

Only every 'video DVD' has a Video_TS *folder* (not file) and an Audio_TS folder. (The latter is usually empty.) The Video_TS folder contains *files* which use either the .vob, .bup (backup) or .ifo (information) extensions in a tree structure. The .vob files are in effect the converted mpeg-2 rendered from your project, but set out in a tree structure which conforms to the international video DVD standard. Moreover, they can only be a maximum of 1 GB.

4 Does a DVD that has no video but only stills in it still have a Video_TS folder

If your slideshow has been authored as a video DVD using a program like VS, then yes, the slideshow will have been converted to mpeg-2 and stored on the DVD in a Video_TS folder as .vob, .bop and .ifo files. But as noted in (2) above, you can also archive photos on a DVD as data in their original format. If they are in, say, JPEG format, moreover, most stand-alone DVD players will recognise that format and play them using slideshow software which is built into the player (as opposed to encoded on the disc itself).

5 Where do VOB files fit in to all this.

See (3) above.

6 What is the difference between creating an mpeg file prior to burning and saving that to the USB drive and copying a DVD which is mpeg

Rendering your project into an mpeg-2 is in a sense a step antecedent to the production of a full video DVD. The mpeg-2 will in effect provide a new, single file of your project and will either play by itself on your computer, or via a stand-alone player which can recognise such a file when it is burned to something like a USB stick as in your case, or via a network streamed from your computer to a TV, or (gasp) burned as data to a DVD and then put in a player capable of recognising the native format, without the initial code which would be burned as part of a *video* DVD. Of course, your mpeg-2 will not contain the menu which is produced/authored as part of the process of converting your project or the mpeg-2 into a video DVD. A video DVD can then be played back on either a software or a stand-alone DVD player. I imagine, though, that not all devices such as your media box can necessarily recognise a video DVD file structure whether on a DVD or copied to a USB stick, though it would have no problem if those .vob files used the .mpg extension instead.