How do I copy mini dvd to dvd to play in dvd player

jaffacat_2

Hi, I have a mini dvd sony handycam and have some home footage on the mini dvds that I would like to convert to normal size dvd to enable us to watch it on the home dvd.

Can anyone suggest some software to do this please, I have nero 8 but not being technically minded I cant work out how you dump 2 or 3 mini dvd's onto a normal dvd - any guides /instructions out there for a newbie ???

Many thanks in advance lisa

jaffacat_2

bump.....any ideas please

Quaint1

I might be wrong here, so apologies in advance, but I thought most home DVD players will play the various sizes - the tray will have a slightly recessed area into which the smaller disc will fit.
Au Res.,
Paul

Electron_2

If you want to use software then I can recommend SONY VEGAS MOVIE STUDIO 8. This is not the easiest software to learn to use but it is good. About £45 (amazon etc) for the basic version which is fine for what you want to do.

It comes in two parts.

1. Video capture and editing
2. DVD creation

When I first used it I burnt a few dud DVD's before getting the hang of it, now I love it. Making DVDs is very dependent on PC speed and even on a fast machine it can take a couple of hours processing before you get the finished product.

Hope this helps.

JohalaReewi

There used to be a whizzo bit of software called DVD decrypter which was also very good at copying DVDs (from mini disc to normal disc). It was so good that the writer got a lot of flak from the big movie companies and had to pull it off the internet. You might find a copy by googling. If that fails, pop over to the video help forums.

http://www.videohelp.com/

Edit:
The image burning part of DVD decrypter lives on...
http://www.imgburn.com/

Might be ok for your application.

Donnie

You'll need to insert the disk in your computer's DVD drive and copy the VOB file located in the Video_TS folder on the disk to your hard drive. Once done, change the file extension from VOB to .mpeg.

Now you can use NeroVision Express 5 from the Nero 8 Suite to convert the .mpeg file to a DVD playable on standard DVD players.

More info here

donnajunkie

Quaint1 wrote: »

I might be wrong here, so apologies in advance, but I thought most home DVD players will play the various sizes - the tray will have a slightly recessed area into which the smaller disc will fit.
Au Res.,
Paul

i agree dvd players can handle the smaller discs so there is no need to convert. i have a feeling that they may mean mini dv and not mini dvd.

if they do have mini dv tapes then i am fairly sure windows movie maker allows you to import footage from a camcorder and then onto a dvd disc. you will need a firewire cable. there are two formats to import into. there is either avi or wmv. avi is better quality and more likely to work on a dvd player but when i transferred a 90 minute tape it used up 18gb. the second time i did it in wmv but it now doesnt work on certain dvd players. as the process took ages as well i decided it wasnt worth the hassle and i just connect the camcorder to a dvd recorder that is connected to the tv and did it that way.

BigBouncyBall

mini DVD (if that is what you mean, you state convert to a 'normal sized' dvd so i assume this is what you mean) - is quite a limiting format. Difficult to edit.

As stated, most (all?) tray loading style dvd players have a small recess in the tray that lets you put in the small 8cm DVDs.

Read your manuals (camera and DVD player) for more help.

PS - don't ever try to put a miniDVD into a slot loading player (laptop for example) or you might do some serious damage the machine.

efrugal

jaffacat wrote: »

Hi, I have a mini dvd sony handycam and have some home footage on the mini dvds that I would like to convert to normal size dvd to enable us to watch it on the home dvd.

Can anyone suggest some software to do this please, I have nero 8 but not being technically minded I cant work out how you dump 2 or 3 mini dvd's onto a normal dvd - any guides /instructions out there for a newbie ???

Many thanks in advance lisa

I have had some success with DVD2ONE. It lets me take content from multiple DVDs and make a single full size DVD out of it. I came across a link to it on the afterdawn.com web forum. That's a great place for newbies to search out video how-to's.

frowner

Donnie wrote: »

You'll need to insert the disk in your computer's DVD drive and copy the VOB file located in the Video_TS folder on the disk to your hard drive. Once done, change the file extension from VOB to .mpeg.

Now you can use NeroVision Express 5 from the Nero 8 Suite to convert the .mpeg file to a DVD playable on standard DVD players.

More info here

Hi,

Have got the Video_TS folder on my harddrive but how do I change the extension to .mpeg.? thanks in adviance

KeithP

Use Windows Explorer, and just rename the file.