LeRoy on 5 Jul 2010 07:56:14 -0700 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/04/2010 11:18 PM, Gordon Dexter wrote: > My aunt has a Samsung DVD-VR300 VHS to DVD recorder and she used it to > make DVD backups of her old home movies. Unfortunately the DVDs that > she created will play only in the original player, and nowhere else. > Other DVD players don't play them, computers can't open them, and when I > try to read the resulting DVD there is nothing. Windows thinks it's a > blank DVD, and even trying to use dd under linux results in a 0 blocks > copied. The data is definitely there, but I can't seem to access it at > all. A few posts online suggest that perhaps the DVD needs to be > finalized, or at least have the session closed, but I can't seem to find > any way to do that using Windows or Linux, and I don't have the original > recorder readily available. > > Any ideas? I know it's possible that the info is recorded in some > completely random proprietary format, but the manual seems written with > the assumption that any random DVD player can read it. > > --Gordon Do you have a dvd ripper with libdvdcss2 and w32codecs installed? You might need to look at the individual tracks to see the video. Track 0 which usually contains the info into the other tracks might be blank. For Debian you might want to see http://debian-multimedia.org/ Also check out the various cd/dvd ripping utilities. - -- Rev. LeRoy D. Cressy mailto:leroy@lrcressy.com /\_/\ http://lrcressy.com ( o.o ) Phone: 215-535-4037 > ^ < Cell: 267-307-3527 gpg fingerprint: 62DE 6CAB CEE1 B1B3 359A 81D8 3FEF E6DA 8501 AFEA For info on enigmail: http://lrcressy.com/linux/mozilla.pdf For info on gpg: http://www.gnupg.org/ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMMfKAAAoJEKuxGqN1iGbbx/kIAJGE28L9d1OqBfmSje2/AOBV m8cHhd8x5V4+wgknfVWkrFEQDdCfD0HQx9VeO+c2vvYVH5XwXPB4+5rVbPIFT4dQ QxrilE4z372/fcg5QYu8TRg5EmFX+IQXZc3UukJ8PVSrdbzP2KTqB5t2K+adZHUu 0wjW6pePg5yQQ9ovabc1HT5L4mQ8t2tCSEczgw8Ot5RgeSHbgW8Ox5uMpNhPjpwY IOGGWzlEvtDQlM29OSvfiouuN3dyuOfA9ziC3yJQms2li73HCYzNRPG8af8rWbkD 1DoATiUHUnmmZ+x9Eb08fG5OdxSjrwAfaGD7Z+JMExCq8cF20nu1q6LGMpWlJhc= =hjnQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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