[MPlayer-users] VRO file question... from your posting...

[Jason Hollinden]

So far, I've just been creating an SVCD from each VRO file like this:

mencvcd sideAtest -noburn -cdsize 800 -svcdout -vnorm n -vfr 4 vr_movie.vro

To pull out specific scenes, I've been watching the vro file with
mplayer with the timer on ('o' key I believe) and making a note of the
times for start and end, then just adding the -ss and -endpos to the
above.

It would be nice if there was a way to read the ifo file, since it has
all that timeing info in it already, but oh well...

On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Shane Freed wrote:

> Jason... did you ever find anything about this? I'm having the same problem... I tried everything and was able to view some of the .vro file using some editing software, but I got to a point where the movie was split into 2 screens running side by side... I assume this was because I changed the recording format (from extra fine to fine)... I would appreciate hearing how you handled this... Thanks in advance... Shane Freed
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Hitachi DZMV230A camcorder, which records on 70mm dvd-r and
> double sided dvd-ram disks.  What I'm trying to accomplish is to make svcds 
> of the dvd-ram disks, which stores in a .vro file instead of a .vob.  The
> reason for this, from what I've read, is that .vob files can only be
> 1G, where this .vro file contains all the tracks in a single file.  The
> .ifo file keeps track of where the tracks start/stop in the .vro file.
> 
> For a short while I had checked my soul at the door an ran XP, and if I
> just renamed the .vro file to a .vob, I was able to make an svcd, but
> there wasn't any track info, just one solid movie.  I've only been able
> to find one commercial program that reads the .vro files correctly, but
> it looks to be playback only.
> 
> Now that I'm done rambling, my question is can mplayer (or I guess
> libdvdread) decifer these .ifo/.vro files?  Google doesn't turn up much
> for vro files, except other "hey, what can I do" posts.  I can't upload 
> anything at the moment, as I'm still figuring out how to make the thing 
> work over USB at the moment.  Once I got that working, I can record a
> short time, with several starts and stops (that's how it does tracks,
> each time the record is stopped/started) if anyone wants to take a look.
> 
> Thanks....
> 
> --Jason
> 
>    Our Cabbage Who Art in D.C.
> 
>    In biology -- and the economy -- simple rules produce complex behaviors.
>    That's "simple" rules.
> 
>    The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words,
>    there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government
>    regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
> 
>    That's "cabbage." Cole slaw, we presume, is more complicated.
> 
>    Source: National Review (10/24/94) 
> 


--

Jason

   Our Cabbage Who Art in D.C.

   In biology -- and the economy -- simple rules produce complex behaviors.
   That's "simple" rules.

   The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words,
   there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government
   regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.

   That's "cabbage." Cole slaw, we presume, is more complicated.

   Source: National Review (10/24/94)