DVD Recovery Help!

[mwhammer99]

Ok, we burned a DVD our our son's first couple of weeks. It was a direct feed from our ancient camcorder into a Panasonic DVD recorder. The tape was recorded over. The DVD recorder died, and no other machine will play the DVD. I was finally able to see something on the disc in IsoBuster, but it looks like there are a few corrupt tracks. Is it possible for me to extract the salvageable tracks to an MPG/AVI/MOV? I can burn a new DVD from there. If you could, please pretend I'm an 8-year-old when responding. I know enough about computers, but googling this has made my head hurt with which steps I need to take.

Thanks!

[hech54]

1) Did you finalize the DVD in the old, dead DVD recorder?
If the answer is no...you could try to find another of the same recorder and finalize it this time.

2) MPG/AVI/MOV?
FORGET AVI or MOV....you want MPG.(DVDs are MPG or MPEG2)

[victoriabears]

take it to a big electronics store that sells panasonic dvd recorders and ask them to finalise it for you.

[classfour]

It wasn't an older Panny that records onto DVD-RAM media was it? Only certain drives will see the .vro files - few would play them.

If it was, you can import the dvd with a compatible drive using TDA.

If it's DVD-RAM: send it to me, I'll author it for you (for free).

[jman98]

Programs like ISOBuster and ISOPuzzle may be able to extract the files. There are no 100% guarantees though.

classfour's post is very important so definitely post back as to whether or not you are using DVD-RAM.

[mwhammer99]

I honestly don't know what Panny model it was. It was probably 3-4 years ago.

It was DVD-R media.

I am able to get ISO files off the disc with IsoBuster. What can I do with those?

[mrswla]

@ Yamma; Dude if you have nothing positive to add, why don't you leave???

[mrswla]

Have you tried DVDFab HD Decrypter or anydvd to copy the contents to your hdd?

[V Bot]

I honestly don't know what Panny model it was. It was probably 3-4 years ago.

It was DVD-R media.

I am able to get ISO files off the disc with IsoBuster. What can I do with those?

You can Open DVD Shrink and click on File, then Open Disc Image and you can see what's in the files. You can burn ISO files with Imgburn.

[usually_quiet]

I wrote some instructions for using ISOBuster to recover files here: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/334109-Is-there-any-way-to-get-video-off-unfinalize...=1#post2072862

[classfour]

If you can get the image - you have the disc.

imgburn to burn to disc.

I use DVDFabvirtualdrive to mount - alcohol and others can also mount an image.