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Is it possible to save a defective DVD (it's a home video)

I have a 10 years old home video from a flight over Dresden. I wanted to use parts of it for a new video. If I play the video on DVD-Player it works nearly up to the end.
When I try to copy the VTS files to my hard drive it stops at 91%. If I try to recode the file it does the same. Is there a possibility in Nero 2016. to save these 91% of the video?
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  • Unlikely as the problem is with the reading of the disk and it seems all your equipment has problems reading the disk.

    The only useful comment I have is that once when I had a problem reading a disk I found my pc's optical drive read it when cold when previously it hadn't when warm.
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  • If you can import NOT copy the video files from the defective disc into Nero Video can't you then cut out/delete the bad bits, then save the remaining 91% to HDD or burn a disc?
    Mr_m, Lucky Phil where are you when needed?
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    Have you tried a deep scan with Nero Rescue Agent?

    Other things to consider are a DVD disk surface cleaner where a minute amount of the disk is "ground away" in an attempt to make the disk readable ... although I have never tried that and I wonder if it could actually render the disk unplayable?
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  • I’m still hoping
    I tried the deep scan and also cleaned the disc with no success. I also tried to record the disc with the program audials2016 from mediaphor but it also stops recording at the 91%. I thought when I stop recording before reaching 91% I could use the record but it discarded the record when I pushed the stop button. If Eric 24 things it may be depending the equipment I will try to use an old rexternal DVD drive I have and will sent the result later.
    Oldmickthejoiner. It is not possibel to copy the vts file. The computer rejects copying the file.
    Thanks for your efforts
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  • Try the disk in a different machine as some DVD disks can be seen in some drives but not in others. I know this because I've had similar problems in the past.
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  • Once again I never explained myself properly so go here and download Anydvd HD for a trial period of 21 days: https://www.redfox.bz/download.html
    Install AnyDVD HD and once installed the redfox icon should show in the system tray, right click on the redfox icon and select Rip Video disc to Hard disc, let Anydvd do its magic and you SHOULD end up with a file containing ALL the files from your defective disc including the corrupt ones, you can then open up the file and drop and drag or use the import function in Nero Video and obviously the files that won't drag and drop/import are the ones you do not want.
    If that doesn't work go here and have a look: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/recover-p...
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  • I’m stillh oping
    Hello again
    I tried with the external drive. I wnated to copy the file to my internal drive but Nero burning rom started automatically. So I put an emty disc into the internal drive and the process started. At 46% it said after 10 minutes unrepairable reading failure LBA 4070888-408096 , after 15 minutes again unrepairable reading failure LBA 408112-409120, after 21 minutes again unrepairable reading failure LBA 409136-410144 and so on all 5 minutes.
    Since 5 hours it burns the DVD. The percentage of used buffer and readyness changes a little but I don’t know if it will come to an end or if I shall do a break.
    Oldmickthejoiner: I will try your suggestion when I did the break
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    This is Magic
    Thr copying of the DVD went on up to 22 percent finished and did not change for an hour: Finally I pushed the break button. But the process did not break but the burning process completed in a short time emptied tha buffer and the DVD burner opened. The DVD still stops just before the end of the video - I assume 91%- when you watch the movie but now NERO Video accepts the film to import and use it in the project.
    Thank you all for the help
    Oldmickthejoiner: I will keep your suggestion and try it later.
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  • Hi folks, hope not posting too late, but this seems to be the most similar thread appropriate for my issues, and apologies for my lengthy post, but I hope it explains the issue.

    I have about 1,500+ pre-recorded DVD+R from a few to almost 10 year's old. I am in the process of copying them to pc hard drive. I may or may not re-record all of them to fresh DVDs, or just create mpg files from the VOB files or both (as I still watch them, plus friends without a "modern" TV also want to watch via their DVD player).

    I guess about 5% of the DVDs have issues now - found through either not playing, unreadable / bad sectors / no file system present etc. I can generally recover all video (.VOB and the odd IFO file) to varying extent, but sometimes so many LBAs on a disc are unreadable that there is either some minor glitches or several minutes worth of "blank" screen on the played video (I asked the software to replace what's unreadable with zeros). This whole process seems hard work for the DVD drive - I have "killed" two drives through overwork already! I should say that there are no obvious issues like scratches, chewing gum etc on the playable surface.

    My questions, when It comes to using Nero Video, (Platinum 2018) are generally about how to author a fresh DVD from these recovered files, but without losing or degrading video / audio quality through any potential recoding / transcoding process. I don't need complex menus, just a simple playable DVD at the end of it.

    - Is it best to reuse the 4 (or 5) .VOB files I have recovered as input to Nero Video?
    - or just extract the .mpg files from the VOBs (should the mpg' s then be joined to create a single file?) and then just input the mpg(s) into Nero Video?

    Under the AVCHD options window, I see that "Quality setting" is set at "Keep source quality" - but not sure how or if this impacts or when it kicks in (ie after any transcoding has happened)

    Hope this makes sense - I did try the university of google, but I quickly got drawn into all kinds of very technical detail.

    Many thanks in advance

    Rafal
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  • Hi, Nero Video can handle VOBs directly and even can create a new disc structure on your hard disk without any trans-coding if you use the same settings as before (e.g. DVD Video NTSC or DVD Video PAL). On the last page before the Burning/Export to hard disk you will see an indicator 100% video smart encoding/100% audio smart encoding. This will show you that the files won't be re-encoded and the original quality will be kept.

    I would recommend to use Nero Videos "folder structure on hard disk" output for the new DVDs. Afterwards you can still burn the one or the other structure to an DVD with Nero Burning ROM without any encoding time spend. And you can even use Nero Recode's "Import DVD-Structure" feature to create e.g. MP4 files from it.

    I would not go for AVCHD as it will just blow up the size of the output and the encoding time without any gain in visual quality.
    • Many thanks - just tried this and it all works perfectly. Very fast plus it also "corrects" some of the VOBs that have strange timing (ie a 26 min clip shows as being 3 secs). Final output is exactly what I need, plus I love the option to not have start menus!

      I did wonder with AVCHD why a 3.6Gb file would not fit after using it on a 4.7Gb disc - now I know !
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