recovering video from scratched DVD's

[mridang_agarwal]

I have a few scrached DVD's and when i try and copy them, my PC gives me read error - quite understood, but when i put those DVD's into a DVD player, it manages to play the DVD - the only hindrance being that the video skips a little where the video is scratched. Is there a way i could copy the videos onto my HDD. I dont mind if a lose a little bit of the video. Its better to lose a portion of it rather than losing it all!

[stackner]

whenever ive had a damaged disc that nothing else would copy (only 2-5 out of about 2000) ive used dvdxrescue. worked every time.

[guns1inger]

DVD Fab Decrypter, ISOBuster, toothpaste

Even the occassional search can help

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=293232

[stackner]

and yes like the above post TOOTHPASTE has also worked a charm for me

[hech54]

Toothpaste is also a great silverware cleaner..

[mattso]

I had the same problem yesterday with a crucial disk I found when I was cleaning up my flat.

Toothpaste didn't work. I was scrubbing away but the marks didn't go away, maybe I'm using the wrong band of toothpaste, but it was Colgate!

DVDFab Decrypter will rip it, however I've yet to make a new disk & play it on my standalone & learn exactly what it has done... Jumps? Skips? Pixelations?

What exactly does ISOBuster "do"? It seems to me it does exactly the same as DVDDecrypter or DVDFab Decrypter - exchanging damaged bits with "zeroes" or filler, or something or other. The only difference is, DVDFab Decrypter doesn't ask you, it just does it. DVDDecrypter asks, just as ISOBuster asks. Does ISOBuster somehow magically "adjust" my burner's laser beam to get at crucial data on the damaged DVD??

[guns1inger]

ISOBuster can be more persistent than the others, and the extra reading can sometimes get to the data. Whether you can see the logic or not, the posts regarding it's abilities are hard to argue with. It's not infallible, and there are times it can't do better than the others, but often it does.

[Bob W]

Hmm I was wondering if ISObuster would allow me to make a backup of a game CD (disc 1 of 4) so I don't have to use the original in the drive all the time. My six year old grandson plays the game whenever he comes to visit and he always is messing with the disc.

[guns1inger]

Create an ISO, mount it with DaemonTools and see how you go