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Re: [PLUG] Extracting from weird DVD recorder format
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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.
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