Hi dentonDVD521,

Thanks for the feedback. I've been a Windows MCE user for a couple of years now and have done the equivalent of your approach using NeroVision 6&7. I ran out of steam on having a PC under the TV and MCE itself is still too bleeding-edge for the wife-acceptance-factor though.

I also got fed up of spending hours in front of the PC editing and converting files to lots of different formats, hence buying the Panasonic. I am now able to edit recordings (to individual frames) and dump directly to DVD. I keep the DVDs to watch back on the TV or loan to friends. The DVD recorder finalises the DVDs so, in theory, they play anywhere.

I already use DVDFab for converting my existing commercial DVDs for playback on the Archos (which it does very well) but I was hoping that DVDFab would also provide a simple interface for converting these DVD Recorder discs too.

Its likely that the Panasonic is not producing book-perfect VOB/IFO files but all the playback software I've tried works fine and NeroVision converts these to .mp4 with no loss of sync. Nero doesn't give me the same level of control though, and doesn't produce divx-compatible files.

How can I check or clean the VOB/IFO files so DVDFab can work with them or what can I tell the developers which would allow them to handle these disks?

Cheers,

Barry.