Trying to reconstruct a damaged DVD-R...

[FlakBeard]

A friend of mine recorded some stuff off television onto a home DVD recorder. The recorder gave him a "failed disc" error after recording.

The disc won't play in anything I throw it in, even my PC. I am able to play the individual VOB files in PowerDVD though (so the video is indeed intact), just not load the disc itself as a DVD video.

I tried taking the VOB files into WinAVI Video Converter and making a new DVD video disc structure from that, but I get a "pin could not initialize" (or something like that) error. Same things happens when trying to make AVIs or MPEGS from the VOB files.

What would be the best way to take the lone VOB files, and reconstruct them into a watchable DVD disc?

[lumis]

try stream ripping with dvd decrypter

[waheed]

Im a little confused. You say stuff recorded onto a standalone dvd recorder. If so, they would be in DVD-VR format and not VOB format, as far as I understand.

[FlakBeard]

The disc I was given had VOB files. It was recorded on a Cyberhome deck.

[BobK]

Im a little confused. You say stuff recorded onto a standalone dvd recorder. If so, they would be in DVD-VR format and not VOB format, as far as I understand.

Some standalones give you the option to record in either format. Both my Pioneer's (220 and 420) let me choose.

[classfour]

TmpgEnc DVD Author.

MPEG2VCR

Ulead DVD Movie Factory????

[kiki]

Easy. copy all vobs to a folder called VIDEO_TS
download ifoedit and let it create the needed
ifo's and bup's. burn to dvd

best of luck
kiki

[waheed]

I was unaware that standalones can also record in VOB format. Good to know. I was about to suggest using IFOEdit, but it looks like kiki beat me to it.

[classfour]

Both the Panasonics that I have record .vro files onto DVD-RAM discs. On DVD-Rs, it's .vob files; but they have been known to not play on some players. If you record more than one session onto the DVD-RAM disc, MPEG2VCR only "sees" the first session recorded (there is only one .vro file on the disc), but TDA sees everything and displays a video track for each program recorded - works great when recording episodes on one DVD-RAM disc. I presume the DVD-RW standalones work in much the same manner: Produce .vob files on DVD-Rs, DVD-VR on DVD-RWs.

My cousin recorded a family video on an LG standalone and asked me to author it: It was a standard DVD (.vob) after she finalized the disc.

If you're using a standalone that records to DVD-RAM, I would recommend TDA - work on it and learn how to produce a nicer menu!

I never warmed up to the "authoring" and "reading" software that came with my Panasonic DVD burner (computer), and switched to TDA as soon as it came out - it doesn't re-encode the AC3 audio to mpeg like others do.

[FlakBeard]

Easy. copy all vobs to a folder called VIDEO_TS
download ifoedit and let it create the needed
ifo's and bup's. burn to dvd

best of luck
kiki

I tried using ifoedit, but it gives me an error saying there's no "vob units" in the VOB files.

[whitejremiah]

this is a thought....lemme know how it goes, but try running dvd2avi and creating a project file, then load that into tmpgenc, reencode (i know its not gonna be an EXACT duplicate of the original, but set the bitrate at the same as the input and it SHOULD be pretty close) then load the mpeg outputs into a dvd authoring program such as dvdlab........its an idea and it may or may not work...lemme know either way.

[classfour]

DVDFab Decryptor may do it

[FlakBeard]

Good news!

I ended up using VobEdit and IfoEdit together with this tutorial, and it was a success.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/120021.php