This is a well know issue with this DVD recorder
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers/panasonic-dmr-es30v/5390 >From June of 2005 Comments: To anyone who wants to used the burned DVDs from this recorder in their PC or Mac to edit and reburn, you might want to pass on this model. After making a call to Panasonic, they told me that none of their DVD recorders are intended to make disks for use on PC. Neither my home computer or my work computer would read the burned disks (I tried a DVD-RAM disk and a DVD+R, finalized). My colleague's computer did, but it was very peculiar. It had 9 VOB which totaled about 8.5 GB of memory...but it was only a 4.7 GB disk! I didn't want to give this recorder an extremely low score for the simple fact that it is a great recorder! It provides high quality recordings, has lots of great features and is very easy to use. Unfortunately, the one thing I need it to do, it can't. I just tried an experiment. I put used DVD Decrypter to rip the burned disk (in the computer that could actually read it) in IFO mode. When I examined the files that were ripped, it only included 3 of the 9 VOB files and weighed in at around 2.8 GB. This leads me to believe that (for some reason or another), the recorder creates 1 or more "phantom" VOB files when burning the disk. I could easily use the ripped files (which was in fact the entire recording) to edit and burn to a new disk. So, it IS possible to use the burned disks in your PC, but ONLY if you have a drive that is capable of reading them. How do you know if yours will?? Let's put it this way...save your receipt! Resolution independent application windows is one of those things that is always rumored as coming to OSX in the next version. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edie Marta Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 8:17 PM To: MacUser Group MacUserGroup Subject: [MacGroup] dubbing I am asking all you knowledgeable people who do this ultimate video copying and so forth and so forth. I don't have anybody to conserve these things for, just once in a while I burn a CD or DVD , but I did the other day dub a VHS tape unto DVD disk. It plays fine back on my DVD player, but it will not play in my computer. The computer ( all my computers) tell me I inserted a blank disk , but the disk is not blank. Is there anything I should do or have done? I used a DVD-R. And my Recorder is a Panasonic DVD REcorder of the type DMR-ES30V. I wanted to mail the VHS to a friend but wanted to send along a DVD, since VHS is going out and I thought he would have access to play the thing on a variety of devices.. Maybe someone can shed light on my darkness or denseness. And if you remember the last question I asked about a permanent enlargement on the Safari page showing the bookmarks etc.? Well, there is none according to the geniuses at the Apple store unless I am willing to change the resolution. Well, i am not. Another item where the MBp with its leopard has left me hanging!. Marta
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