Page 1 of Playing finalized DVD-RW VR Mode disks in most PC`s that play DVD-Video with Windows Media Player 9

You can play a finalized DVD-RW VR Mode disc in most DVD-Rom / DVD Writers.

This quick guide is for those of you that don`t yet have any VR Mode compatible DVD playing software. This is a basic trick to allow you to play your recording on most recent PC`s / Laptops that play DVD-Video.

Please note that this doesn`t play the Playlist it only plays the Original recording.

If you load your finalized disc in your drive, select the Drive in My Computer and then go into File / Explore.
You should then have the root folder called "DVD_RTAV" in which you will find 3 files "VR_MOVIE.vro","VR_MANGR.ifo" and "VR_MOVIE.bup".

Copy file "VR_MOVIE.vro" to your PC at the same time RENAMING IT and changing the original `.vro` extension to `.mpg`

You should have now resavedyour "VR_MOVIE.vro" as "NAMEOFFILM.mpg". This file should now play in Windows Media player 9.

Although this has the file extension .mpg and this is sufficent for Windows Media Player its not a true mpeg file and doesn`t appear to work in my DVD editing software.

This should also work for DVD-RAM as long as you have a PC Drive that reads RAM. (Please note that not all drives that can read RAM take the RAM Disks in Caddies.)

Please also note that I have copied most of this guide from a post by `Rasczak` Post 38 of the following avforms.com link:

http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101191&page=3&pp=15

This item was edited on Friday, 22nd April 2005, 14:16