Getting video of DVD-TS DVD RAM disks

farss wrote on 4/30/2003, 9:45 PM

Client has turned up with DVD RAM discs he recorded on a camera while OS. No longer has the camera which can play the disks out through firewire using proprietry software. Thought I could help as DVD-RAM disks are readable in DVD drives but the disks are not readable under Windows. Anyone know of a way to read the video off these disks? I suspect they are DVD-TS (Transport Streaming).

This is going to become more of an issue as more manufactures start to push this format for cameras.

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riredale wrote on 4/30/2003, 11:04 PM

I have no idea--I would have assumed that DVD-RAM disks contained generic file structures, readable on any compatible DVD drive.

Perhaps a quick visit to the camera manufacturer's web site or customer support would be the next step...

farss wrote on 5/3/2003, 9:41 AM

Thats what I would have thought to,
would have helped if client knew make and model of camera he used.

Will have a chance to try a Hitachi ENG camera that records to DVD-RAM in a few weeks, I'll see how I go getting video off that.

mikkie wrote on 5/3/2003, 10:13 AM

If windows doesn't see anything on the disc, then the disk itself is in a format windows doesn't normally understand, like the old direct cd stuff adaptec used to put out. Might try it on a unix or mac machine, or perhaps one of the different utilities for reading/writing different disc types?