Comments on: Burn a playable DVD from a VIDEO_TS folder

By: dewshi

dewshi — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:45:21 +0000

Not much use to me. The goal is surely to burn a dvd that meets the spec.

By: groobert

groobert — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:30:03 +0000

Re: dewshi (5:12am)

>So the problem is to structure the files in the required order on the written >disk, and not just alphabetically. I’ve experimented with various disc images >& software tools (e.g Burn), with no success. How do you burn a disk with >files in a certain order?

Er… rename the files so that their alphabetical order matches the required one?

If your explanation is correct (and it sounds like you know what you’re talking about) this should produce an image that will be understood by a “dumb” DVD player. However, it may not be understood by a “smart-alec” computer DVD drive, since then the filenames will no longer match what t expects.

By: dewshi

dewshi — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:12:00 +0000

The reason a DVD player is unable to recognise the disk is that it requires the files in the VIDEO_TS to be physically in the correct order, in particular the VIDEO_TS.IFO file should come first. When you insert a disk into a DVD player it scans the first few sectors looking for this file which contains a list of sector offsets to find the title sets on the DVD. If the DVD player can’t find the IFO file or finds another file first it generally gives up.

Unfortunately, alphabetically the file “VIDEO_TS.BUP” comes first and it appears that the mac writes this file first when burning a plain data disk. A computer DVD player, on the other hand, understands the file system on?the disk and can therefore find any file it wants with out having to?know the offset values. That’s why the mac can play the disk OK, but not a DVD player.

It is also important that the VOB files are in the correct?order as a DVD player just plays the data it finds, ignoring file boundaries,?until it reaches the end. In fact a DVD player doesn’t even understand files?and only uses sector offsets to find data.

HERE’S AN EXAMPLE OF A CORRECT VIDEO_TS FOLDER:

VIDEO_TS.IFO ?
VIDEO_TS.VOB ?
VIDEO_TS.BUP ?
VTS_01_0.IFO ?
VTS_01_0.VOB ?
VTS_01_1.VOB ?
VTS_01_2.VOB ?
VTS_01_0.BUP ?
VTS_02_0.IFO ?
VTS_02_0.VOB ?
VTS_02_1.VOB ?
VTS_02_0.BUP

So the problem is to structure the files in the required order on the written disk, and not just alphabetically. I’ve experimented with various disc images & software tools (e.g Burn), with no success. How do you burn a disk with files in a certain order?

Any suggestions?

By: Govi

Govi — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:57:28 +0000

I gave a try to Tan’s advise to use the Disk Utility but after burning the dvd wasn’t recognized by my dvd player or my mac. I tried to burn using a folder with a name i put (puting the al of the file inside the folder named “VIDEO_TS”)
and didn’t work. And I tried it also making a master dvd from a folder in which i put the whole “VIDEO_TS” folder I downloaded and again, the player couldn’t recognize the disk.
Any ideas of what could have happened?

By: TAN

TAN — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:11:33 +0000

skip this mess do it with Disk Utility.app

To do it with Disk Utility, create a folder with the name you want your disk to have. Copy the VIDEO_TS directory to that folder. In Disk Utility, select “File > New Image From Folder…”. Select the folder you just put the VIDEO_TS directory in. Select “DVD/CD Master” from the “Image Format” drop-down and click the Save button.

By: TAN

TAN — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:52:53 +0000

I’m gettin a similar problem as: lmau on 5/23/2009 at 4:53 pm
I enter the code in terminal and it says the .iso file already exists, but I do not see the file anywhere, anybody got a solution?

By: face

face — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:18:28 +0000

If “path to volume name” contains spaces or special characters you need to protect them in the shell.

/volumes/DY EXTERNAL/movies/Bolt/

is two tokens separated by a space

/volumes/DY\ EXTERNAL/movies/Bolt/

“/volumes/DY EXTERNAL/movies/Bolt/”

should solve the problem on the command line.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:58:12 +0000

Getting a weird error. Can anyone explain this?

hdiutil: makehybrid: multiple sources specified
hdiutil: makehybrid failed – Invalid argument

This is what my terminal cmd looks like

hdiutil makehybrid -udf -udf-volume-name bolt -o bolt.iso /volumes/DY EXTERNAL/movies/Bolt/

By: billy

billy — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:29:51 +0000

An example could be:

hdiutil makehybrid -udf -udf-volume-name FLOWERS -o flowers.iso /Users/ramon/Downloads/flowers

By: face

face — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:34:33 +0000

Usually something like

/Volumes/NAMEOFDVD/VIDEO_TS/

it all depends on the name of the disk you insert, or where you copy the VIDEO_TS folder to

By: Ramon

Ramon — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:24:42 +0000

Hi all,

I just bought a mac after using 20 years microsoft. So maybe somebody can give me an example of this command:???

hdiutil makehybrid -udf -udf-volume-name DVD_NAME -o MY_DVD.iso /path/to/VIDEO_TS/parent/folder

path?
to?

By: stardude

stardude — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:13:45 +0000

I am new to all this and did not realize at first that you need the VIDEO_TS file in a folder all by itself. As the original post stated, your command line should not include the text VIDEO_TS, just the path to the folder that contains only that file. After the .iso file was created, it showed up automatically when I opened Disk Utility, and all I had to do was select it and click Burn.

By: spud

spud — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:22:56 +0000

One reason a retail DVD player might not read the disk is because the “booktype” is not set to DVD-ROM when you burned the disk. On DVD+R and DVD+RW disks you can burn this field that tells the DVD player what kind of disk it is. If you lie in this field and set it to type DVD-ROM (instead of DVD+RW or whatever it is) there is a higher chance the retail DVD player will play it.

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:54:49 +0000

It works perfectly for me. Thanks for the tip!

By: lmau

lmau — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:53:05 +0000

i’ve tried this but i don’t think it works tough, because in the end it’s says that the .iso file already exists, but i don’t see any file…
any suggestions??

By: MIHAI Popa

MIHAI Popa — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:16:02 +0000

Avoid spaces in the path name, i.e. have “my_folder” instead of “my folder”.

Thank you for the tip.

By: Herman Van Hest

Herman Van Hest — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:25:34 +0000

I’ ve tried this, and everything works, i get the iso file..
When i hit the burn button it says “NOT RECOGNISED”
Any thoughts, input?

Grtz.

By: Kurt Lloyd

Kurt Lloyd — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:49:33 +0000

I too am happy to have this solution to at least end up with a burned DVD-R that can play on computers, though this same burned DVD-R is not recongnized by either of our two not-too-old DVD players.

By: omni

omni — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:41:42 +0000

hdiutil makehybrid -udf -udf-volume-name AEON_FLUX_DISC_1 -o AEON_FLUX_DISC_1.iso /Users/omnicron1/Downloads/Aeon\ Flux/AEON\ FLUX\ DISC\ 1

By: seth vail

seth vail — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:23:31 +0000

hdiutil makehybrid -udf -udf-volume-name DVD_NAME -o MY_DVD.iso /path/to/VIDEO_TS/parent/folder

i was looking in the hdiutil man page and it had this listed i believe as a guide

hdiutil makehybrid -o

i am not sure i understand the and part and also in the command at the top i dont understand what i should enter for DVD_NAME and MY_DVD.iso (i think the two misunderstandings are related but i could be wrong and would like to know whether or not am)

if i had a dvd folder with the proper name HAVING_FUN and a video_ts folder and audio folder in it; would my command look like this ?

hdiutil makehybrid -udf -udf-volume-name HAVING_FUN -o HAVING_FUN.iso /Desktop/HAVING_FUN (assuming the folder is in fact on the desktop)

and if that is correct can someone still explain the thing to me? thanx!