Overburnt VCDs

[newbie]

Hello guys,
Is there a way to rip (the .dat) or duplicate the whole VCD when it's overburnt?

I think I have some overburnt VCDs. They're not playing on my standalone DVD and I could not rip the .dat files (DAT -> MPEG). How could I make a copy of them now?

[HillJack]

If your DVD player won't read the cd, and you can't copy the .dat files from the cd to your computer, then the files are most likely corrupt... Whoever burned the disc probably did an actual overburn (stuffing 655mb on a 650mb disc for example).

If you have a burner, put the cd in it and skip to the next paragraph. If you have a DVD-ROM, try that if the burner doesnt read it. Use a regular cd-rom as a last resort.

Some people say use VCDGear, but I find it extremely slow and unreliable (most of the time it just sits there chugging away and does nothing in the end). Use VCDEasy (under the tools option) and it will convert the .dat back to an actual .mpg if the file can be read from the cd (hasn't failed me yet).

If VCDEasy fails, then the cd is probably wrecked and you're S.O.L.

[newbie]

Thanks Hilly,
I think my VCDs are wrecked as you said. I can see the files with my CDROM but I can't do anything to them. They cannot be copied straight to the hard disk, they can't be extracted with TMPGEnc, VCDGear, etc and cannot play with standalone DVD player. Arghhhhhhhh

[bilbogod]

Try imaging the cd to your hardrive using Clonecd and then convert the raw track image using vcdgear to an mpeg..........