Posted by Jeff on 10/12/05 12:58

It's not a price issue. I've tried working with DVD burners and hit
incompatibility problems. Will play on some drives, not on others. They
need to become as transparent and compatible as CDs are today. The CDs I
created work anywhere. Maybe in 2006 or 2007.

But you are correct. Transferring to CDs takes too much time and is not
ideal either.

Jeff


"Biz" <spamoff@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1BS2f.529$Xp6.490@newssvr24.news.prodigy.net...
> Keep all the files if you want full proper playback capability. The ifo's
> contain important navigation info. Considerng they are really really
> small
> compared to the 700MB vobs being created, its kinda stupid to even worry
> about it. If you are always only going to play it back from teh hard
> drive,
> its not even necessary to do any of this. Previously I think you posted
> about wanting to save it to 700MB cds, which again , based on the current
> price of dvd burners and media, is a total waste of time. Its 2005, deal
> with it...
> "Jeff" <jeff@naol.com> wrote in message
> news:7CA2f.12205$U%5.3465@lakeread05...
>> I have a unencrypted DVD that I wish to backup to my HD to be able to
>> play
>> it from the HD without using the DVD. This is in Windows XP.
>>
>> Because I need to back it up in files of 700MB (not 1GB, I have my
> reasons),
>> I am using DVD decrypt which in IFO mode allows me to back up the DVD in
> VOB
>> files of 700 MB. Since there are several of segments (PGC 1, 2, 3, etc.)
> on
>> the DVD which I am backing up, decrypt asks me each time if I want to
> rename
>> the output VOB file and the IFO file or to overwrite the earlier ones and
> of
>> course I say rename them.
>>
>> Now, I know nothing about VOB, IFO files etc. I noticed that some of the
>> produced VOB files are 700 MB and others are 44 KB. I presume they
> contain
>> the left over info. What is the difference between the created IFO files
> and
>> their similarly named VOB files.
>>
>> What is a PGC segment?
>>
>> **I do not intend to ever re-create a DVD from this backup. They are just
>> for me to replay from the HD. I noticed that if I move just a VOB file by
>> itself to another directory and double click on it it runs just fine by
>> itself. So do I need to keep all the associated 102KB IFO files and the
> PLS
>> files that Decrypt has created or can I just keep the VOB files alone for
> my
>> purposes.
>>
>> What are they for anyway since the VOB files work fine by themselves?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Johnson@naol.com
>>
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