DVD with Menu to DVD without Menu

jimingo wrote on 2/27/2006, 12:47 PM

I have a DVD with a menu (one of those simple one page menus made from standalone DVD recorders). I wanted to take the menu out and just have it play when inserted into the DVD player. I copied the VideoTS folder to my computer. I took out the VIDEO_TS , ViIDEO_TS.BUP, and VIDEO_TS.IFO files and replaced them with a VIDEO_TS, VIDEO_TS.BUP, and VIDEO_TS.IFO from a single movie project that I authored in DVDA 3.0.
The new DVD plays fine on my computer but does not play back on my set top player so I obviously did something wrong. What is the correct way to do this without recompressing?

Thanks
-Jim

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plasmavideo wrote on 2/28/2006, 10:03 AM

Jim, I'm not quite following what you did. You copied the TS folder to your computer and replaced the contents with other content?

Then what did you do - copy the file folder back to a data DVD?

Sorry, I'm lost as to what you did. Perhaps a little more info would help.

rsp wrote on 2/28/2006, 10:54 AM

Just copying or exchanging those file can lead you into problems with playback.
Google a bit on the subject 'removing dvd menu' and you should find some info how to do it.

Rudi

jimingo wrote on 2/28/2006, 11:26 AM

What I did was copy the Video TS folder to my computer and then I replaced the VIDEO_TS , ViIDEO_TS.BUP, and VIDEO_TS.IFO files with ones that were created in another project. The other project was a single movie created in DVDA 3 and I thought that maybe the new DVD which I burned would play back without the menu because I took out the menu files and replaced them with the new files that just told the DVD to start without going to a menu. It does play back fine with powerDVD but it doesn't play on my set top player.

I was actually just trying to save some time but I ended up just starting over from scratch. Thanks though.