Posted by Norman Swartz on 07/04/06 23:08

"Tonester" <none@nospam.com> wrote in
news:SYBqg.3127$cd3.2581@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net:

>>... when I put the DVD in the LG DVD drive
>> in my computer to copy it onto the hard drive, Windows XP Pro, SP2,
>> spins the disk for a long time and then finally reports it as being
>> totally blank?!?! Obviously the DVD is not blank since it plays back
>> perfectly in the machine in which it was created.
>>
>> Help! Please! How do I proceed? Do I need special software to read
>> such a
>> DVD? Obviously I am new to dubbing DVDs and am pretty clueless, so
>> much so
>> that I don't know where to turn other than to you folks in this
>> group. I am depending on your helpfulness. Many thanks.
>
> You can't edit video once it's burned to a DVD. You probably should
> have bought a DVD burner for your computer and a video capture card
> instead.

That much I do know, but you'll notice that I said that I was trying to
copy the DVD onto my hard drive. My intention was to edit the sequence
in my computer and then to burn another DVD. As a matter of fact, I do
have a capture card and a DVD burner, but I abandoned using the video
capture card -- it's just too much hassle: far too many options for
settings that are not explained.

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