Copying DVD - Make it more 'Player' friendly

I got brought a home DVD of a wedding (yes really) this morning at work that "won't play". Indeed my PC was less than impressed by it. Cleaned the disc and managed to read it (still not recognised as a DVD). I created an image and then burned that and now I have a disk that the PC likes. However whilst media player recognises it's a DVD it can't play it, gumbling about codecs.

If this were for my use then no problem, I'd just use VLC or go download a code pack. However it's not, it's for someone that has no interest in their PC, it just needs to work. So I'd like to recreate the DVD in a more universal format - does that make sense? I'm au fait with run of the mill DVD copying etc but again only for my own use. Anyone know how I could choose how the DVD gets written and what codec or format or whatever I should choose for maximum compatibilty with PCs & if possible DVD players.

Cheers

Rip the DVD to a video file format (AVI, MP4 etc) using video capture software (my new cam came with a brilliant one - shame it's all in japanese really).

Then use something like ULead DVD Factory to make a video DVD so that you can play that in anything that'll take DVD-R(/W)'s. Job jobbed.

I know you're IT literate as well, but if you need any more detail, give me a shout. Your problem probably happened when you copied the duff disc, and turned it (inadvertantly) into a Jolliet image (data).

Ta muchly.

The Uleand DVD factory is probably the key bit.

Will need to look at the original rip as I'm not sure if it's a straight DVD or one with menus that need to be preserved (whcih wouldn't by going to MP4 etc I guess)

PS Looking forward to seeing a post about your new toy(s)

Originally Posted by 2mths

Ta muchly.

The Uleand DVD factory is probably the key bit.

Will need to look at the original rip as I'm not sure if it's a straight DVD or one with menus that need to be preserved (whcih wouldn't by going to MP4 etc I guess)

PS Looking forward to seeing a post about your new toy(s)

ULead DVD Factory can cope with creating menus too, if that takes your fancy.

About the toys, I'm guessing you mean horns... If I get those, I'll wont be fitting them for a while. I'm looking at other phenomena at the moment.

Filipe, if you see this, Magnums run at approx 500hz, the stock horn runs somewhere around 340hz. Interesting that.