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Hi To All

I have purchased a video player that is a direct copy from vhs tape to dvd, i am having a bit of a problem and need some help from you good people,Please

I have copied a vhs tape to dvd and it wont play in my dvd player, it will play on the pc with windows media player, but i would like it to play on my VLC player which i prefer most.

When i open the disk i recorded to read it there are 2 folders, 1 named VIDEO_TS and the other VIDEO_RM, When i try to play it with vVLC player it starts then freezes after about 3 seconds,


i have tried it with both xp and windows 7 both the same result, Is there anything i need to download so that i can play the disk, or maybe convert the 2 folders to normal dvd files

Any help please


many thanks in advance

Did you finalize the disc?

Did you finalize the disc?

Hi M8

Yes i did !!

Does it work any better if you copy the VIDEO_TS folder to hard drive and watch it from there?

may be i have an idea

how do u open the dvd ?
with "open disc" ?

i have some selfburned dvds which will not play that way
(reason: unknown/seems vlc cannot find video_ts.ifo file on its own..)

here 3 solutions which may work

1st: try to open dvd with "open disc" then not dvd root d:\
use d:\video_ts\ folder to open dvd

when this don't work
try double click on video_ts.ifo file in your video_ts folder
or open video_ts.ifo file with "open file" if u have not assigend all supported files to vlc

3rd idea: does your dvd has a dvd menu ?
if not disable dvd menu in vlc options