tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post8510854071300194484..comments2023-11-08T05:17:31.521-08:00Comments on Flayland: How to get files off an unfinalized DVD-Video disk using free softwareFlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07389779350824751473noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-6650700569591195762021-09-01T09:05:01.159-07:002021-09-01T09:05:01.159-07:00If the disk you are extending is in a linux guest ...If the disk you are extending is in a linux guest OS once you have extended the disk in vmware go to the guest OS as root and use fdisk. Do a df to see the device name, something like /dev/sda, thus fdisk /dev/sda, enter p to see current partitions, n to create a new one, accept the default size and save with w. Once done you can now see the physical disk partition in Linux. You can then use lvm gui or manual commands to initialise the partition and extend your file system. Thanks Paul for pointing me in the right direction.<br /><a rel="nofollow"> CrazyAsk </a><br /><br /><br />Ashley Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05858480814178781347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-31973218973353482762020-07-18T02:10:43.612-07:002020-07-18T02:10:43.612-07:00I'm really pleased that this is still helping ...I'm really pleased that this is still helping people, and it's nice to get a comment that's not spam. The reason I moderate comments is that I get quite a few of those.Flayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07389779350824751473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-47388401164686247672020-07-18T00:06:39.111-07:002020-07-18T00:06:39.111-07:00This is awesome, and still useful today. It also w...This is awesome, and still useful today. It also works under macOS, installing dvd+rw-tools from http://macappstore.org/dvdrw-tools/emarillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10965848808146609967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-18822405219485789292018-12-07T22:51:45.741-08:002018-12-07T22:51:45.741-08:00You are my hero! Thank you so much! I will say tha...You are my hero! Thank you so much! I will say that it took me some time to figure out why it wouldn’t let me mount my boot.wim file but I figured out it was because mine only had an index value of 1 not 2. So instead of: dism /mount-wim /wimfile:boot.wim /index:2 /mountdir:mount, it was: dism /mount-wim /wimfile:boot.wim /index:1 /mountdir:mount. Perhaps that will help someone some day.<br />Regards: <a href="https://www.thedarkweblinks.com/dark-web-links/" rel="nofollow">Eve Hunt</a><br />zaved khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16413172681622855716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-9348874800016912942017-09-15T10:59:40.133-07:002017-09-15T10:59:40.133-07:00I have found that the VLC time counter is unreliab...I have found that the VLC time counter is unreliable when playing back these recovered .vob files. Perhaps there really is 30 minutes of footage there even though VLC shows18.52?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16437184829952976045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-87700424803863306862016-11-18T03:07:30.461-08:002016-11-18T03:07:30.461-08:00Hi I think you must be setting the wrong number of...Hi I think you must be setting the wrong number of blocks in count for the block size you specify. See the explanation on block size. If you were setting the wrong skip, I'd think what you got back would be corrupted. You can easily test this just by increasing the count argument a bit and seeing whether you got more.Flayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07389779350824751473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-17736541460023618432016-11-16T01:59:34.644-08:002016-11-16T01:59:34.644-08:00Hello - thanks for this, it's very useful! In ...Hello - thanks for this, it's very useful! In short, I have got this to work BUT for some reason instead of getting 30 mins of footage at 1.4GB data. I am getting 18.52 minutes of footage at 1.4GB data. I know that the recordings last c. 30 minutes, so I'm not sure what's gone wrong. I am extracting the footage from 30 DVDs; I know that it is picking the footage up from the start of the DVD, the skip point is always the same, there are only ever 4 files on the DVD, only one is of any reasonable size and it is always ca. 1.4GB. I just can't work out for the life of me where the other 11 minutes of footage has gone. Any ideas?<br /><br />I can provide more information and the output of the command providing the breakdown of the tracks. <br /><br />Cheers, <br /><br />RossRosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16951636175090298151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-91366432452289457982016-05-29T11:11:54.674-07:002016-05-29T11:11:54.674-07:00I'm pleased to hear people are still finding t...I'm pleased to hear people are still finding this useful 5 years on. This is destined become my most enduring contribution to human knowledge.Flayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07389779350824751473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-60842973320951224912016-05-29T06:50:03.648-07:002016-05-29T06:50:03.648-07:00Fantastic article, @Flay, you saved me :) I had an...Fantastic article, @Flay, you saved me :) I had an unfinished DVD from a camcorder that was thrown away long ago. With the dvd+mediainfo and the dd command, I rescued all those precious memories.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11287722246170482440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-46184313292911728842015-12-03T10:08:17.738-08:002015-12-03T10:08:17.738-08:00I forgot to mention how to use it:
dvdgrab.sh /ho...I forgot to mention how to use it:<br /><br />dvdgrab.sh /home//FolderToCopyToChristopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09447867104729595770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-3815624509422242762015-12-03T08:54:19.971-08:002015-12-03T08:54:19.971-08:00Hey guys.
I came across this page while I was try...Hey guys.<br /><br />I came across this page while I was trying to copy an open session disk for a client of mine. They then gave me 25 more disks! Obviously doing this over and over is too tedious for 25 disks, so I created a script to automate the recovery. Hopefully you find this helpful.<br /><br />Be warned, the script is ugly as sin but it does work. You may need to edit the script if your distro does not put the dvd drive in /dev/sr0<br /><br />https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5tgmmczrMWyZU8xOENhdGp5QTA/view?usp=sharingChristopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09447867104729595770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-54216900429206992292014-06-24T14:16:43.687-07:002014-06-24T14:16:43.687-07:00Great Post, Open session disks are are readable in...Great Post, Open session disks are are readable in OSX MavericksAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02499248801782011782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-60277363865352594872014-03-04T00:20:09.344-08:002014-03-04T00:20:09.344-08:00I have recorded my vdeo on a sony handycam and the...I have recorded my vdeo on a sony handycam and the disks are dvd rw but i couldn`t understand how to <br />view these videos on the pc or on the dvd player since my handycam broke so what should I do Plz REPLY ASAp <br />thanks Shivam<br />shivam kapoorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04872487548775851495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-26198427483644568602014-02-06T01:18:43.777-08:002014-02-06T01:18:43.777-08:00Hi Ken. It's hard to say what might be wrong. ...Hi Ken. It's hard to say what might be wrong. Generally VLC should be able to play anything you throw at it. You may have a lot of disc read errors which resulted in corrupted file headers. If you can play your files in a video editor, then I'd suggest using that to save them out again. If you want to try and figure out why your files aren't playing, have a look at logging with VLC: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/vlc-secrets-logging.htmlFlayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07389779350824751473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-79553879893683588352014-02-05T14:45:52.346-08:002014-02-05T14:45:52.346-08:00Hi, a friend of mine had no idea he had unfinished...Hi, a friend of mine had no idea he had unfinished DVD's however it turns out that about 9 of his collection are unfinished and he used TDK DVD-R when they were having real problems. This post is the only one I found that helped. IsoBuster will work but only if you throw some money at it. This DD is great I can read the DVD's write the output file exactly as per the example but VLC will not play saying no suitable decoder module, WMP will also not play them. I can however play the movies on free Wondershare Video editor. Am I doing something wrong, should I try to convert it to another format , any ideas?<br /><br />thanks Ken<br />kenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751400487917364529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-61591230275221734042013-12-06T04:47:26.883-08:002013-12-06T04:47:26.883-08:00Many thanks for the information about listing trac...Many thanks for the information about listing tracks on an unfinalized DVD in linux. An alternative for composing/converting videos taken from UDF discs (CD/DVD/etc) is a linux tool named "k9copy". GUI-driven and provides a "wizard" to make conversion extremely easy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05997000728456581845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-21517332852540599742013-06-26T01:56:15.367-07:002013-06-26T01:56:15.367-07:00Thank you very much Flay, for your time and advice...Thank you very much Flay, for your time and advice. I will carefully follow your updated on dd. Although, I have used the free version of IsoBuster on Friday to extract part but a chunk file unable to extract. If everything okay I will post comment again.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13972480088887927222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-49396444243496973672013-06-22T08:10:17.769-07:002013-06-22T08:10:17.769-07:00I wrote this post 2 and a half years ago to share ...I wrote this post 2 and a half years ago to share my experiences. I did not expect it to become such a popular source of information, but somehow it has. I've updated it recently to include more help for Windows users. It should have everything you need. I would not use Cygwin and the unix version of dd. You're better off with the native Windows port of dd that is specifically mentioned. If you're unable to make it work after carefully following the directions, then I'd suggest giving IsoBuster a try.Flayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07389779350824751473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-39870905706738731232013-06-21T03:19:42.517-07:002013-06-21T03:19:42.517-07:00I came across this page somedays ago. Having simil...I came across this page somedays ago. Having similar problem, follow the steps in my win7 home premium i.e. downloaded the dvd+rw-medianinfo & cygwin terminal but I am still having problem using the dd. In that when I input the command line as above it keep repeating it nothing else. pls I need help urgently.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13972480088887927222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-41907523558302995742013-06-21T03:15:52.315-07:002013-06-21T03:15:52.315-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13972480088887927222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-6408074713284545242013-05-25T02:26:54.248-07:002013-05-25T02:26:54.248-07:00Hi. I would agree with you. The session info shows...Hi. I would agree with you. The session info shows that the disk status is appendable, which is not what you want in a DVD+R. If you have the drive and system that created the session you could try to close it. Track 2 is where your data will be. In order to understand where you might be going wrong, we'd need to see how you're writing the dd arguments. You need to address the drive as a block device. Mac OSX is unix based so it might be /dev/cdrom, but I'm not sure. I don't have a lot of OSX experience and I don't have a copy to try out.Flayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07389779350824751473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-49316672686876863912013-05-24T23:59:41.636-07:002013-05-24T23:59:41.636-07:00So I have a bunch of DVD+R's of home videos th...So I have a bunch of DVD+R's of home videos that are being read as blank discs by my Macbook Pro. I know there is data on it, because I can see the burn on all of them. I read that these media is junky CMC MAG/E01... but using some terminal commands, I think there is data on here after all.<br /><br />---------<br />Runing drutil status: <br /><br /> Vendor Product Rev <br /> MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-898 HC10<br /><br /> Type: DVD+R Name: /dev/disk1<br /> Sessions: 0 Tracks: 1 <br /> Write Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 8x<br /> Overwritable: 00:00:00 blocks: 0 / 0.00MB / 0.00MiB<br /> Space Free: 00:00:00 blocks: 0 / 0.00MB / 0.00MiB<br /> Space Used: 03:31:47 blocks: 15872 / 32.51MB / 31.00MiB<br /> Writability: appendable<br /> Book Type: DVD+R (v1)<br /> Media ID: CMC MAG E01<br /><br />---------<br />Running dvd+rw-mediainfo:<br /><br />$ dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/disk1<br />INQUIRY: [MATSHITA][DVD-R UJ-898 ][HC10]<br />GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:<br /> Mounted Media: 1Bh, DVD+R<br /> Media ID: CMC MAG/E01<br /> Current Write Speed: 8.0x1385=11080KB/s<br /> Write Speed #0: 8.0x1385=11080KB/s<br /> Write Speed #1: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s<br /> Write Speed #2: 2.4x1385=3324KB/s<br /> Speed Descriptor#0: 01/2295103 R@8.0x1385=11080KB/s W@8.0x1385=11080KB/s<br /> Speed Descriptor#1: 01/2295103 R@4.0x1385=5540KB/s W@4.0x1385=5540KB/s<br /> Speed Descriptor#2: 01/2295103 R@2.4x1385=3324KB/s W@2.4x1385=3324KB/s<br />READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]:<br /> Media Book Type: 00h, DVD-ROM book [revision 0]<br /> Legacy lead-out at: 2295104*2KB=4700372992<br />READ DISC INFORMATION:<br /> Disc status: appendable<br /> Number of Sessions: 1<br /> State of Last Session: incomplete<br /> "Next" Track: 1<br /> Number of Tracks: 2<br />READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:<br /> Track State: reserved<br /> Track Start Address: 0*2KB<br /> Next Writable Address: 0*2KB<br /> Free Blocks: 15872*2KB<br /> Track Size: 15872*2KB<br />READ TRACK INFORMATION[#2]:<br /> Track State: blank<br /> Track Start Address: 15888*2KB<br /> Free Blocks: 0*2KB<br /> Track Size: 2279216*2KB<br /> ROM Compatibility LBA: 265696<br />READ CAPACITY: 0*2048=0<br />----<br /><br />So from this, it looks to me like there is 03:31:47 of footage on there. Two tracks (1 reserved, 1 "blank"). The blank one has a size of 2279216*2KB... which makes me think its just unfinalized. But when I go to do a dd to copy data to a vob or iso on my harddrive, I get an Input/Output Error.<br /><br />Any ideas anyone? These are the last surviving copies of this footage so I am really hoping its not gone forever!! :-/Ari Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00479615423053369717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-40085454498666997822013-04-17T05:25:21.419-07:002013-04-17T05:25:21.419-07:00Maybe you could help me.
A friend has a Sony Hany...Maybe you could help me.<br /> A friend has a Sony Hanycam Video that records straight to a disc. We went away with him and he took Video's of us and I would like a copy of them.<br />At the time he said he will give me a copy.(Three years ago.) <br />I asked him again and he said that he cannot give me a copy of the disk because he has to edit it first and then finalize before he can copy it.<br /><br />I thought maybe you could do this. If he doesn't want to finalize it yet, maybe I could play the video from his video camera through my HDD video recorder and them finalize it on there. Do you think that would work ?<br /><br />Any other ideas for me. Thanking you Vicki<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02400615858682423306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-79144515319663685222013-04-11T12:34:52.225-07:002013-04-11T12:34:52.225-07:00I'm always very pleased when I see that this p...I'm always very pleased when I see that this post is helping people, especially as it's quite an old post now. That's not to say that there have been many new ones. If I had actually tried the Windows approach I would have written something about how to discover the block devices. Maybe I will update this when I have more than a smart phone to type on.Flayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07389779350824751473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008817907674571160.post-27656990561107595122013-04-08T11:10:09.348-07:002013-04-08T11:10:09.348-07:00So...I had two unfinalized DVDs (both from a Sony ...So...I had two unfinalized DVDs (both from a Sony VideoCam). One contained video that I didn't care about, and the other with the video I needed to complete a project. In my above post, where I spoke of PowerDirector crashing when I tried to import the file, that was from the DVD that I didn't care about -- I figured I would learn how to do this, on it, in case anything I did was destructive to the DVD.<br /><br />So, having successfully extracted the video, with no apparent damage to the DVD, I applied these techniques to the golden DVD (the one with the video that I needed). And I am happy to report that I not only extracted the video, but it loads into PowerDirector and is fully editable! The only difference between the files (other than different video and audio information) is the former (crash prone) file was a bit larger than the later file. <br /><br />System Specs:<br />* Win 7 - 64-bit 4 Gig RAM<br />* PowerDirector 10<br /><br />HappyForNoDamnReasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08696223097952695163noreply@blogger.com