Looking at MPEG-2 (the standard) I can't see where this information is standard in the encoding. We do have (far too) long discussions about date, time and manipulations of so let's just get down to what I use and you decide if that helps.
I use a handful of FREE titles which you can look for. I may not give the links (since I've done so many times.)
1. For ripping the DVD I never bother. I just copy over the .VOB files.
2. For TRANSCODING the VOB if I must I use Super from http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
3. For clipping up the video I might use VIRTUAL DUB. This is not an offer to write a tutorial.
4. For creating a DVD using these files I might use DVD FLICK.
5. And finally IMGBURN is my choice for recording the final .ISO files.
Again, this is just a short list of the FREE titles I can use to get from common DVD camcorder stock to a compilation. No offer of tutorials is here. But it does work. I've done it too many times.
-> About that date.time, you would have to tell a lot more where that information is. Many are still confused about what they see on the camcorder versus what ends up on your video dvd.
Bob
Hi All,
I hope someone can help me here, I'm creating this thread from work so if I'm light on some of the technical details I will check back and supply these but I wanted to get the thread going.
I own a Panasonic camcorder that records to DVD-R/RW/+RW etc. The camcorder works fine and we've captured family videos on the discs. Since we were learning, some of the discs were in VR-Mode and some in standard video where the disc was finalized. At this stage we don't do any editing of the video since we're interested in burning and compiling discs.
I downloaded a trial version of Nero 9 I believe and after a couple of coasters, I managed to read in the necessary *.vob files from the discs and burn a DVD that could be played back on PC and the home DVD. However, when I was decoding I noticed that the time and date information that was present on the recorded discs on the camcorder was not transfered during the decoding. I would like to keep this information for future prosperity so we can look back at the date of discs etc. So my questions are:
1. Can anyone recommend a free program that can decode or transfer the *.vob files onto DVD for burning while maintaining date and time information? Or can this be done with Nero that I didn't realize?
2. Is it possible to add many videos onto one DVD using this free program and/or Nero? We have probably 4 or 5 discs with short videos on and I'd be looking to compile onto one disc. If I remember correctcly, Nero 9 gave me an option to add a little menu screen for multiple clips/videos.
Eventually I'd like to do a little video editing but I appreciate that this would most likely require the purchase of a reasonable video editing package.
Thank you so much in advance for your help and suggestions!
Mark
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