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
