Video Tape playing audio but no video for the last 2 minutes

[Ferrari420]

I was playing one of my videos tapes that's 1 hour and 2 minutes long for the recorded part which contains family video, and the next 3 hours is just TV. The tape started with a blue screen until 40 seconds in. Then the video plays normally, until the 1 hour mark, when video abruptly disappears and you can still hear the audio playing, then after 2 minutes of audio you can hear the button being pressed on the camcorder, indicating that the recording has stopped. Then suddenly after maybe 10 seconds, video is back, and it's crystal clear for the rest of the 3 hours of TV. Not happy with my recording, I fast forwarded and rewinded the tape 4 times to see if it would improve the video, because there were constant white lines. This time you could see video the moment you pressed play on the VCR, followed by the blue screen of my DVD recorder, and then the family video, until the 1 hour mark, like before. There were much less white lines this time around. Could my video heads still be dirty, causing the VCR to be unable to read the signal from the tape, or has the tape just degraded and lost the video for that part? Still it's strange that there's audio.

[davexnet]

I'm not sure if you're taling about your VCR or camcorder, but connect them directly to the TV
via the composite cable and see if the behaviour is the same

[Ferrari420]

I'm not sure if you're taling about your VCR or camcorder, but connect them directly to the TV
via the composite cable and see if the behaviour is the same

When I mentioned the camcorder once I was talking about the person filming the video stopping the recording. Aside from that mention of a camcorder I'm talking about my VCR my entire post. So I hooked up my VCR to my CRT TV and it's the same story for the last two minutes, except there's no audio. On the recording on my PC the video plays to a certain point until the screen suddenly goes black and the audio continues. Can a professional extract the video from the tape? It's a precious tape.

[johns0]

Sounds like your tapes are missing the last 2 minutes of audio and there's nothing you can do to fix that.

[Ferrari420]

Sounds like your tapes are missing the last 2 minutes of audio and there's nothing you can do to fix that.

It's one tape. There is no video for the last 2 minutes. Maybe a full frame TBC can help seeing that my line TBC (DVD recorder) was able to get audio which I was not able to get playing the tape on the TV. Full frame TBCs assist in signal problems.