repairing damaged dvd

I have a wedding dvd which has stopped to work properly due to the small
scratch or maybe poor quality of the DVD used to make it. This is the only
copy I have. I could not copy this DVD but I managed to read all files from
the dvd to my computer. When I am creating new dvd using those files it is
stopping in the same place as the original. I have tried all different
software I could find to create new avi files which I could turn back into
DVD but all software is creating separate video and sound which are out of
sync. I can not find any software which will give me the same length of the
video and sound or the best one avi with picture and sound inside.
As mentioned before using slow reading speed I managed to create new set of
files on my harddrive which I have used again to create another copy of my
dvd. I have used create video DVD in Nero 6. I have noticed that the problem
starts when movie is switching between two of vob files. Is it any way of
fixing this ? Is it any other, better way which will solve my problem.
How else I can repair my video.

Thanks for suggestions,

Tony

 

Toothpaste.

 

Mild abrasives like toothpaste sometimes will reduce or remove scratches.
But since you have already copied the files to a computer. I would suggest
TMPGE DVD Author. It will allow you to reauthor the disk with no loss of
quality to another DVD if you already have the VOB, IFO, and BUP files on
your computer. There is a fully functional trial version available. It does
not appear to have any problems with maintaining lip synch.

Smarty

 

Someone else has a copy of it. Ask them if you can borrow it in order to make a
new copy.

 

Will toothpaste work with burned DVDs? (I'm assuming that the OP has a
burned rather than a pressed copy.)

dick

 

What "Smarty" said, and you could run the .mpg files that the
"Add DVD video" button process makes, through "VideoReDo"
www.VideoReDo.com before you make the new DVD.

TMPGEnc DVD Author is at www.pegasys-inc.com

Luck;
Ken

 

If the scratch is on the bottom side, a mild fine abrasive or a
commercial repair kit might work.

If the scratch is on the label side, then you're SOL.

A long shot might be to find a program that will dump the
contents of the disc in spite of errors. Then you may be able to
repair the damaged files. I don't know if the software you used
to copy the files actually got everything. The are several Linux
programs that can do the dump and probably a few non-commercial
Windows programs as well. Just guessing, but it sounds like the
link field between the files got clobbered.

 

I watch a lot of DVDs from my local library....many of them wont play
because of damage to the playing surface.

Somthing that is cheap, available, and has almost always worked.....

Repolish the surface of disk with a little baking soda and a damp
terry cloth face towel. After you are done rinse under the faucet and
wipe dry.

Simple cheap and effective.

 

Shouldn't make any difference. You're only polishing the bottom surface,
not the data layer/s, which in a DVD is in the centre of the disk, not at
the top like a CD.

Noel Bachelor noelbachelorAT(From:_domain)

 

That would probably be true if it was a CD, but he said its a DVD.

In a CD, the data is at the top surface with only a thin layer of laquer
protection. In a DVD the data is sandwiched in the middle, with 1.1mm of
polycarbonate top and bottom. If it's a double layer disc, the two
substrate discs are usually pressed with their respective data, and then
spun together with an adhesive layer between. A single layer disc is done
the same but with one layer is just flat.

Your data is better protected from scratches in a DVD, though as the data
pits are smaller, more will be affected by scratches that cause optical
problems.


Noel Bachelor noelbachelorAT(From:_domain)

 

You're getting confused with CDs where the reflective
layer and dye layer are close to the label side (about
80% or 90% of the distance).

DVD reflective/dye layers are in the middle of the plastic
(so that you can do things like double-sided DVDs).

 

Oops, make that about 0.6mm of polycarbonate each side. CDs and DVDs are
both 1.2mm thick.


Noel Bachelor noelbachelorAT(From:_domain)

 

You and people like you are such a laugh. If you had put your video
on VHS tape you would still have it. If there is a flaw in the tape,
you just splice it and only lose a few frames. If a DVD gets a flaw,
you lose it ALL. Anyone that trusts valuable data to a DVD (or a CD),
is an idiot.

 

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Tape degrades everytime you play it.
Tape degrades everytime you DON'T play it.
Anyone that trusts valuable data to a VHS tape, (or a cassette tape) is an
idiot.

 

n Sat, 9 Oct 2004 12:22:22 -0700, "Richard C."

Which is exactly why I save my most valuable data (my photos) on a
spare harddrive. It gets costly buying harddrives, but it's one of
the safest methods. Of course a harddrive can fail too, so there is
always another backup of some sort, which is generally an actual
backup tape, or a zip disk.

 

It's not that costly anymore. At less that $1 per Gb, hardrives
represent the one of the cheapest, fastest and most available long-term,
reliable storage systems around. I store all of my data, including
photos, music, videos, scanned documents, everything on a RAID array of
hard-drives. It's simple and efficient.

One of the most amazing changes in the household is thinking, should I
compress this CD or just copy it, at the end of the day all I'm having
is a debate over storing the cd verbatim at a cost of $0.60 or
compressing it to save all of $0.40 cents. Kinda makes the decision an
obvious one doesn't it.

Michael C

 

And to add to that, NO one in their right mind would "splice" a video tape. If
the splice seperates and the adhesive makes contact with the video head it
will rip the head clear off.

 

Hell, we make repairs of that sort all the time. Use a high grade
splicing tape, and play the tape back only once. We make a good
working copy or two of the spliced tape for general use, then affix a
warning about the splice to the repaired tape and store it away for
safekeeping.

In any case, its good practice to make a backup copy of any important
recording, regardless of the recording media, BEFORE it becomes
damaged.