Fix VTS Tutorial

This tutorial is specific to using a very small, free but incredibly powerful utility called "fix VTS" to automatically correct internal errors on a DVD.

These errors may cause any number of error messages to appear, all of which are quite meaningless. You may get "invalid DVD navigation," "disc error," invalid DVD menu structure," invalid DVD file structure" or a host of others.

If you are getting the "No Disc" error then it is more likely you have a DVD finalization problem in which case you may be better off going back to the home page of this site and going through the topics there.

Before getting started it is a good idea to create the working folder for the program first. How and where you do this depends on your computer set-up but for the purposes of this demonstration I created a folder on my C drive called "test" as you can see below.

I will be importing/copying an entire DVD to be corrected into this folder.

The first step in the process is to click here and download Fix VTS.(opens in new window) It is a stand alone utility so there is no need to do any installation step. Just save it to a place on you computer and when you are ready double click the icon and Fix VTS will open.

Generally speaking the type of DVD error that Fix VTS will handle will be as a result of the reference files in the DVD (the IFO and BUP files), pointing to parts of the video files (VOB files) that are either in the wrong place or do not exist.

Preparation

Place the problem DVD into the DVD tray of your computer and select to "Open" the disc.

Depending on where the DVD came from you will now have a window open that shows the VIDEO_TS folder of the DVD. Some DVDs may also have an AUDIO_TS folder as well but in 99% of cases there will be nothing in the folder. If you do see an AUDIO_TS folder, open it to check it is empty.

Simply click and drag the VIDEO_TS folder from the DVD across to the folder you created earlier. In this picture you can see I have dragged the VIDEO_TS folder from the DVD to the "Test" folder I created earlier.

Once the copying process is complete you will have a VIDEO_TS folder on your hard drive. If you open that it will look as below.

This can also cause jumpy or stuttering playback of the DVD or complete freezes while the player is desperately searching around for things that either don't exist or have been marked as being in the wrong place.

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