Hi all,

I got an interesting case of recovering video file from a CD which was created by this video carmera
http://www.sony.co.uk/product/sdh-dvd-h ... nicalSpecs

The carmera saved the file on a CD. Inserting the CD into an optical drive shows nothing. It seems like the CD is empty.
By runing R-Studio on the CD, I found the "video" but it wasn't recovered as a video format but as a lot of pictures (seems like R-Studio splited the video file to it's frames..).
Any possibility to recover the file?
I researched the internet and asked Google many times, but found nothing to do.

Any advice would be appreciated.
Regards,

Try Durable Copy or Isobuster.

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IsoBuster succeeded to recover the video file but with kind of weird damage.
While marking the file I can see in the windows folder bar that it length is 26:30:03 but when playing the file it stopped itself after 30 seconds.
What is going with that file?
I tried to play it through few versions of media players (VLC,BSplayer,WM Player..) but it still stop at the same point.
The file size is 19MB and the file format is VOB.
What else can be done with that?

Many Thanks for your help!

If the file is 19MB, then 30 sec looks ok.

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Probably I misexplain myself well.
The recovered file is 19MB and I guess it should be more than that.
On the folder buttom bar it written that the file is 26:30:03 but it stoped after about 30 seconds of playing.
It should continue to last minute of 26:30:03.
The coustomer also said that the video is about 20-25 minutes.
What can be done about that?


Best Regards,

19Mb for 25minutes of video, it's very small. What's the video resolution?

You only got 1 VOB file?

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Does the CD look like it's got a good amount of data on it?

(i.e. the changed colour portion on the back)

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This is exactly the point. The recovered file is too small.
Somehow it recovered this small size video file. The quality is good but it stops after 30 sec :/
The CD is rewritable, so maybe the client accidently deleted part of the data and that what was left? :/



Hi pcimage, the CD indeed looks like it's got a good amount of data on it but with few little scratches..
Besides, it is a rewritable CD so I am confused..

If it's RW, it could be already burned before at a previous session...
You must see just that small VOB and it could be only 30 sec. because the rest of the VOB files, to complete the video are missing.
It's like a normal DVD, it has several VOB files, to make 1 single movie.

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