PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN.. MADE A VIDEO CD / DVD DISK WITH THE TERAPIN MACHINE. NOW I WOULD LIKE TO COPY IT. TRIED NERO BUT IT KEEPS SAYING THAT THE DISK IS BLANK OR IS INVALID OR IS A MIXED MODE DISK. I NEED TO BE ABLE TO MAKE COPIES OF THAT DISK.. THANKS MIKE

-- mike enoches (deanasite@aol.com), March 11, 2001

Answers

I going to take a stab at this. You should have an Mpeg1 video stream if this disc plays in a DVD standalone. Take that Dat and load it as an iamge onto the harddrive. Then palce that into the nero program VCd maker.

Hope this helps

or you may need to go out and get another burn program like *Discjuggler (Freeware) *CloneCD

-- thepest (jamesthepest@aol.com), March 12, 2001.

thanks to the pest but no matter what i do i can make a copy of the dat file to the hard drive... thanks

-- mike (deanasite@aol.com), March 12, 2001.

sorry correction can not make a copy to hard drive. it keeps failing. thanks

-- mike (deanasite@aol.com), March 13, 2001.

Are you using a CDR or CDRW in the Terapin? I have had the best luck using a CDRW and then using Nero to create CDR's. Somewhere I was told the reason why one can not copy the CD is becuase it is actually a bad burn. It will work in a player but it is impossible to copy the content.

-Terry

-- Terry Ulanch (tulanch@myrealbox.com), March 26, 2001.

From the description of your problem, It sounds your Terapin recording was NOT finalized. Even though you can still read th CD in the Tarapin (CDRW's are especially prone to recognition issues when formatting hasn't been set prior to use.

-- Frank Vanella (thevidguy@aol.com), April 14, 2001.

As Terapin CDR are written on the fly (Packet writing) some burning software can have problems copying. I use Clone Cd which I have had no problems with.

-- Andy (support@hotmail.com), May 14, 2002.

Actually, this is not an answer but a re-iteration of the question. I have not yet seen a complete answer to the problem at hand.

Some people seem to be able to use conventional means to copy the mpegav/music01.dat file to their local hard drives and some cannot. I am in the "cannot" category and I even have TWO of these Terapin devices now. (I found one for $50 at a local discount shop.)

One user reported some success using unix utilities but was not specific about how he accomplished it.

I am a Linux user and I still have Windows available on some machines as well though I haven't used Windows for anything for a very long time. I would like to be able to copy the video files from the Terapin VCDs but I haven't found a good way to do it yet.

-- Daniel (xdesign@hotmail.com), May 27, 2004.