The hard drive was removed from the Liteon 5045 and the jumper altered from cs to the slave setting. I connected it to the second ide ribbon cable going to the DVD burner as this had a free plug. The volume shows as LITEONFAT and in my case J drive (this will vary according to the pc).

Note. Since this page was written, I have been using a USB adaptor to connect the hard drive to my PC's USB 2 port, this avoids the need to open the computer's casing and it is unnecessary to alter the jumper setting on the hard drive.

 

 

Depending on what is on the Liteon's hard drive (music video jpegs etc) there will be a number of folders. The recorded video the files will reside in the AM_00001 folder. This is in the HDD_VIDEO folder.

 

I ignored everything else, Audio, LiveTimeShift, Picture etc as I don't use the Liteon for these, this is what I was interested in.

 

Opening the folder nested inside are these folders. They contain the vob folders I want

Opening the one I want, I find the TITLE.VOB folder

 

Inside that we can see the video files I want. They are always identified as "Content" with a number, but notice there is no file extension.

 

I've found it is unnecessary to rename the files and add the extension when using VideoReDo.

 

Simply selecting the all files [*.*] option,  open the vobs from the Liteon's hard drive with VideoReDo, then save them to the PCs NTFS hdd (which avoids any filesize limits too) the copying is actually done during the editing process. All the files on the Liteon's drive remain unaltered and can be left as they are when you replace the hard drive in the recorder.

 

I have not tried other editing software, but they still may work using the all files option [*.*]
If it is necessary to rename these with the file extension ".VOB" to use your editor, and want to keep them to play again on the Liteon you will have to rename them back to the original form before you reinstall the drive in the Liteon.

 

 

Now the vob files are ready for editing in