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Saving a possibly corrupt DVD+R?
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spacerace
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3. November 2005 @ 17:08 |
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Hi folks, any advice you can give will be appreciated.
I record TV to DVD+R on my standalone Centrex CTDR1000.
It's a cheap brand and sometimes screws up, the player will freeze or any number of little bugs.
For instance this time, the disc loads up okay and shows the thumbnails of the shows I've recorded but won't let me access the last few.
To make things worse windows reads the disc as empty in numerous (high quality drives).
Somtimes I can salvage a discs contents by using DVD Decrypter to rip the vobs to my PC but even this program won't reads the disc in question as empty.
I know my shows are trapped on the DVD+R disc and I can't get to them whichever way I approach!
Is there anything else I can try to salvage these recordings?
I was hoping to extract the data and then re-author if possible.
Thanks in advance!
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DogBomb
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4. November 2005 @ 01:49 |
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That's why cheap media and cheap players aren't worth the hassle. Since you will probably dump the player and get another one soon (damn it, a decent one can be had for $100 now!), I suggest the easiesy way to transfer your old shows on DVD would be to get a new DVD recorder and hook up the component cables from the old one to the new one. I guess you could borrow the DVD recorder from someone else too. Of course, I'm assuming you can still play them. Maybe get another good DVD player to read the DVD too. Also, did you finalize your DVD+Rs? Some players won't play or read a DVD that hasn't been finalized.
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4. November 2005 @ 01:57 |
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try IsoBuster
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spacerace
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5. November 2005 @ 02:41 |
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Thanks folks,
It sounds grim Dogbomb, the discs actually don't play so that option is almost certainly out. I've tried playing them in the pc and of course the unit they were recorded on only so far. My experience tells me though, if they won't work on those then they pretty much won't work at all...however the completist in me will test on another player asap.
Annoying thing is the exact problem I was describing happened again tonight, this time the disc even comes up as blank in the recorder (no menus or anything) so it seems the problem is getting worse. The last ones at least let me see a menu and play a track or two!
As for the media I always use TDK DVD+R and RW...by no means the cheapest, at least here in Australia.
About the recorder - it's cheap but when it works has AMAZING video quality! My parents have a current model Panasonic 80GB EM-50?? (not sure from top of my head) and the Centrex suprisingly beats it hands down...my SP or 2:10 hr mode looks much sharper and with richer colours than the panasonic on XP 1:hr mode. Much less blocky too, hmmmm never thought I'd be scared to buy a big brand name but now I am a bit.
I will try ISO buster too Phantom69, thanks heaps. I'm off to research it.
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DogBomb
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5. November 2005 @ 05:17 |
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Have you tried reading the DVD on someone else's standalone DVD player or PC? I don't know if your laser may be dirty or just weak, so I'd try your DVD on someone else's player before assuming it's the media. Yes, TDK is decent. Also, I may be beating a dead horse, but did you finalize those +Rs? With +RWs, you don't have to finalize, but with +Rs, you might.
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spacerace
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5. November 2005 @ 22:42 |
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Well, one disc let me finalize and I was able to rip two of three episodes in DVD Decrypter (great!) while the last ep couldn't be done.
As for the other disc, every pc and player I've tried it in thinks it's empty, and the recorder it was made in does too so it won't even let me finalize it. Luckily the content I cared least about was on that disc.
For the hell of it I fired up Iso Buster and was able to rip a .TAO to my HD but I have no idea what to do with it...is there a way to get this into DVD compliment MPEG-2 or burnt to DVD? I don't really want the footage anymore, am just curious to know.
Plus, today I bought a lite-on LVW-5045 HDD & DVD Recorder so all should be sweet now. Seems like a great unit, though amazingly the video is a little bit softer than my old cheap Centrex. I tell ya, that thing had great qualiy when it did want to work!
Maybe Centrex could supply me with firmware udprade and I could keep it as a spare?
Again, thanks for the help.
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7. November 2005 @ 10:49 |
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with the TAO file, open file in iso buster or if it is an unrecognised file format just double click and select open with and then iso buster then you can extract the files by selecting them and clicking extract or something or rather hope it helps, i recommend this program to everyone...
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spacerace
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13. November 2005 @ 20:44 |
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Phantom, iso buster is great!
Managed to save most of the stuff I mentioned by extracting it, however there is one annoying quirk.
After I've extracted all the .vob's, I convert them to mpeg2 in Womble MPEG Video Wizard and they are ready to be re-authored on a new dvd.
But just one of them is acting weird. It (in .VOB format) plays FINE in powerdvd but stops about 5 mins short in womble. Thus when I covert it to mpeg2 it also stops short of it's real runtime.
It's the only one to do so and I used the same method to convert them all.
Only thing I can think may be causing the problem is that the .VOB itself is 0.99GB.
Is it fine and maybe just womble is having issues with it?
How else can I convert it to mpeg2 easily if so?
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spacerace
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14. November 2005 @ 02:43 |
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Hmmm nevermind, even DVD Lab tells me the file is corrupt.
Tried a few programs though none did anything to fix it so I guess losing only one from a disc's worth wasn't so bad.
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14. November 2005 @ 02:52 |
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Ya know with isobuster all you have to do is right click the file and select extract in mpeg form. Then isobuster will extract a mpeg right from the vobs and then there is no need for womble. At least it did it with super vcds...so I imagine it can with dvds too.:>
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14. November 2005 @ 13:17 |
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if it is just going to be put onto another disc for your DVD player (DVD Disc) dont worry about converting everything, just open Nero and select burn dvd video from pre-existing files...
again its a great program... its good that i could help
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