Posted by Gene on 02/15/07 15:13

I have looked, but never found, a really good program
(Windows, DOS, whatever) that can "salvage" a
video DVD that would not open in Windows. Surely
there is a program somewhere that will reconstruct
an unreadable video DVD, even if frames are missing or
of poor quality,etc. My gut feeling is that MOST of the
VOB file data is written to the video DVD, and it's just a
matter of reading the bits of data and reassembling a video
DVD, as best the program can. Something is better
than nothing. I'm thinking of a program that bypasses
Windows and operates at the hardware level. A DOS
program would be just fine.

If anyone has ever seen such a program, please post a link,
or program name, etc. It sounds like such an obvious
tool that I'm surprised that it's not a freeware thing.

THANKS,
Gene




"Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> "Andy" <woof@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>I have DVD of a home video that was recorded from the camera onto a TDK
>>disk
>> in a DVD recorder. When I try to import the .VOB file into Womble MPEG
>> Video
>> Wizard DVD I get the message "Cannot open the file".
>> What would cause this, and how can I get it to import?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> What kind of disk was it? If it wasn't a DVD+RW disk, then
> was it finalized in the DVD Recorder?
>
> Can you see the contents of the VIDEO_TS folder on the DVD,
> using Windows Explorer?
>
> Luck;
> Ken
>
>

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