Hi.
I've got some people coming round tonight to watch a film I've got in mpg format on a data DVD. Unfortunately I've just discovered I can't read beyond about three quarters of the file. Does anyone have any idea how I could recover the rest of this file, or at least most of the rest of it?
Thanks in advance. Sorry to be so demanding today.
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 02:24:34PM +0000, Joe Button wrote:
Hi.
I've got some people coming round tonight to watch a film I've got in mpg format on a data DVD. Unfortunately I've just discovered I can't read beyond about three quarters of the file. Does anyone have any idea how I could recover the rest of this file, or at least most of the rest of it?
Thanks in advance. Sorry to be so demanding today.
Is this the 2Gb limit possibly? My DVD player will only handle files up to 2Gb in size, you have to use some (usually awful) editing software to write files longer than this to a DVD in a format readable by a DVD player.
Up to 2Gb most DVD players will happily play 'raw' MPG2 files, no need for menus or anything, just write the file(s) to the DVD.
On Thursday 28 April 2005 14:24, Joe Button wrote:
Hi.
I've got some people coming round tonight to watch a film I've got in mpg format on a data DVD. Unfortunately I've just discovered I can't read beyond about three quarters of the file. Does anyone have any idea how I could recover the rest of this file, or at least most of the rest of it?
Ok, panic's over now - I managed to read the whole file using a different DVD drive.
On Thursday 28 April 2005 16:02, Joe Button wrote:
On Thursday 28 April 2005 14:24, Joe Button wrote:
Hi.
I've got some people coming round tonight to watch a film I've got in mpg format on a data DVD. Unfortunately I've just discovered I can't read beyond about three quarters of the file. Does anyone have any idea how I could recover the rest of this file, or at least most of the rest of it?
Ok, panic's over now - I managed to read the whole file using a different DVD drive.
The joys of digital. I had the same problem a few years back on a bad batch of CDs. Each one had on it a single video file; I was never able to recover them.
CDs and DVDs are not reliable media; they're both designed for recording analog media, which is very tolerant of errors. When using them for backup it's better to save a lot of small files than one huge archive. That way if an error occurs - a scratch maybe - at least you can get at most of the files. Archive formats are very intolerant of even the slightest error rate. Which leads me to ask: is there a way of archiving that will tolerate blocks of errors, (the usual pattern for disc damage)?
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