Hi:

I have a file, This supposedly is a motion picture. Could you tell me how to make a DVD-video out of it? I've never seen a file which is an image of a DVD-Video DVD. I certainly have burned files like these:

VTS_01_1.VOB*
VTS_01_2.VOB*
VTS_01_3.VOB*
VTS_01_4.VOB*
VIDEO_TS.BUP*
VIDEO_TS.IFO*
VIDEO_TS.VOB*
VTS_01_0.BUP*
VTS_01_0.IFO*
VTS_01_0.VOB*
VTS_01_5.VOB*
VTS_01_6.VOB*
VTS_01_7.VOB*
VTS_01_8.VOB*

over an audio directory and a video directory. Any suggestion will be welcome.

Hi there,

fine, an image of a CD or DVD. Looking at the image size, it must be a DVD. Probably Agora from 2009.

Simply take your favorite CD/DVD burning software and tell it to burn a DVD from an ISO file.

No? I'm regularly archiving my video DVDs in that fashion.

What *exactly* would you like to know?

[X] Doc CPU

If what you want is just see the movie then use VLC media player and select open and then .iso image and it will play it. I played some rented dvds that way (that we had to give back before looking at them, so we just saved them like that)

If you burn it to disk, be sure to use the "burn image" tool. In K3B it's under the "Tools" item on the menu bar.

Well, how is it that a movie in a DVD is logically organized according to the ISO9660 standard?

Hi there,

that's because Video DVDs are technically just data DVDs with a special standardized directory and file structure. And that structure can be expressed in an ISO9660 file system. Usually is. It could also be UDF, but then these discs have an secondary ISO file system for compatibility.

Standalone video players usually prefer the UDF file system, if present, while PC-based drives and programs tend to prefer the ISO file system. That makes it possible to produce DVDs that behave differently on dedicated players and PCs. However, I don't know an example where this has been done.

All video data resides in a directory VIDEO_TS. There are three types of files in there:

• *.vob: They contain the actual video data, and they're just MPEG video files with special constraints.
  Video has to be MPEG2 in 720x576 at 25fps (PAL) or 704x480 at 29.97fps (NTSC), optionally half that resulution.
  None of the *.vob files should be larger than 1GB.
• *.ifo: These define the structure of the playback chain, the chaptering, the DVD menus and how they're linked together
• *.bup: These files are backups of the *.ifo files with the same base name.

Sometimes there is another directory AUDIO_TS, which is usually empty. This is used only for pure Audio DVD, which are rare.

So here you go. Check for yourself if you like - just taky any video DVD, put it in your computer's DVD drive and look at them in your preferred file manager. You'll find exactly the structure I described.

[X] Doc CPU

Thanks for your kind post. The mystery about this file was still deeper, for the generated DVD was unplayable. However,
So this must be the result of some incomplete torrent download. Regards.