Salvaging damaged VCD

[chloh]

Hi

A rather new VCD of mine suddenly cannot play on the PC (using windows media player 6, Win95). It played fine before (I just click on the dat file in the directory and it plays), there are no apparent defects on the physical disc. I cant check it on a standalone VCD player. The current error now is that MediaPlayer 6 plays about two seconds of the video (I can see the first frames) and freezes.

I tried to copy the disc using Nero and Winon, both gave me read errors. I tried copying the dat files off the drive to my HD but that too resulted in read error. My only resort was to use CDRWin to extract the data as BIN, now I am trying to figure out if I can salvage using that. I have downloaded a bunch of programes to check the bin file etc.

I have no idea what happened to my VCD, but anyone has experience in salvaging discs? I have been successfully doing so with damaged audio discs but video is really new to me. (for audio my Creative CDR is really good at extracting the data even with scratches, often CDRWin is the programme that extracts data best altho everything else sucks, then I patch up the wav file where the defect is using some editing and cut and paste, sometimes even to perfection, and burn a brand new audio - perhaps the same can be done with video?).

Hope for some help!

Cheers
ch

[js1604]

hi,

i have salvaged some damaged vcd using a program calls isobuster url: http://www.isobuster.com/

it will try to extract all extractable video+audio to dat or mpg file. but most probably the part of video located in damaged area cannot be salvaged. it is better than nothing.

hope this will help.

JS