Paul Smith wrote:
On 4/20/06, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there some way to check whether a (video) DVD is well recorded
without playing it?
If you have the original ISO, then you can do a checksum of the images.
Or mount the DVD and do a checksum of the individual files.
I have done this from time to time.
What do you have for a reference to compare to?
If you don't have any original files to compare to, you can only check
to see if the files either play properly or can be copied.
What are you trying to check for? This may help in giving a decent answer.
Thanks, Robin. Actually, I do not have the originals. Someone recorded
them for me on DVD+RW disks and for some of them vobcopy does not
work, but it does work for one of them. Then, I am suspecting that the
ones that fail with vobcopy are badly recorded.
Paul
Paul,
I have used mplayer to play *.vob files almost daily. If you need to
recover part of the file, you may be able to this way. Also in the past
I had some strange problems with multisession CD's not reading properly
but I was able to recover the data but I don't know how.
--
Robin Laing
