Restoring video clips after format

[better life]

Hi experts: I accidentally formatted my computer. I recovered some video clips, the computer can play them but I can't author them, I would like to put them to a DVD. I've used TMPGnc, DVD2AVI, ... Please advise!

[guns1inger]

You can play them in what ?

[Bjs]

I recovered some video clips

Using what ?

Some recovery programs are inferior and recover the files incorrectly causing these issues

[better life]

I use Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, RealPlayer to play the damaged clips. Most recovered clips could be made to a DVD by using TMPGnc DVD Author.

[redwudz]

What exact errors does TMPGEnc report? I imagine the files may have breaks in them. You would have to repair those first, usually with a MPEG editor, if that's the format they are presently in. But you might try ReJig.

[better life]

When I authored the clips with TMPGnc DVD Author, it says "This is an illegal video file". I used TMPGnc, it says "Invalid video source", I increase the Directshow Multimedia File Reader to be higher then others, it didn't help.

[guns1inger]

Can you open it in avisynth with DirectShowSource() ? (I know, not the best option, just looking at alternatives).

If so, you can re-encode from the script.

[better life]

I downloaded Avisynth and didn't find any application file in it.
I used ReJig and able to make most of the VCD quality videos to work in TMPGEnc except the DVD quality videos, it could be done with DVD2AVI but TMPGEnc says it is unsupported.

[guns1inger]

Install avisynth.

Create a new file in notepad, called openmovie.txt, and change the extension from .txt to .avs

Edit the file in note pad, and add the line

DirectShowSource("pathtovideo")


Where pathtovideo is the full path to your clip - e.g. c:\temp\movie1.mpg

Open the openmovie.avs file in virtualdub and see what you get.

[better life]

Thanks guns1inger.
I get stuck at the procedure I TMPGEng the DVD file to VCD quality. Is there any other SW that can replace TMPGEng?