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What is Video Based DVD?

How can I watch my video?

  • I had a DVD made of my first skydive. It will not play on any DVD player. The cameraman had a digital video camera attached to his helmet (I don't know the specifics on the camera) and the video was burned to a DVD when we were on the ground. I don't know anything about the equipment used, which was destroyed by fire a few months back. The disc only plays on a friend's DVD recorder, and will not play on any DVD player I put it in or even any computer I put it in. When I try playing it on my computer, my computer only sees an audio file which will not play. I apologize I'm not very technical in my description, for I am kinda technologically stupid. Based on the information given is there anything I can do to fix this problem? If there's anything you need that I left out I will try my best to answer. Thanks.

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    Like chairface, I'd bet it's a multisession disc - 'orribly, 'orribly non standard on a DVD (except in VR mode on a DVD recorder), and even more 'orribly non-standard if it's got an audio session on there as well! You might like to see what some of the multisession / recovery tools make of it. http://www.cd-dvd-recovery.net/cdrecovery.php would be a start - the free download version will at least show you what sessions are there; once you know what you're dealing with you may be able to find a free tool to deal with it. chairface: "I still don't know why it would think it's an audio CD. That's just weird." I do. It's complicated, but the extremely dumbed-down version is that on a mixed mode audio/data CD the audio session must be first, while for multisession data the last session is the one read ('cos it contains all the references back to previous sessions). On a PC, if the drive / OS can't find any later sessions it understands, it'll fall back to the first session. The disc type doesn't matter; it's the session info and block type that determine whether it's an audio or data session. Of course, a CD player won't read a DVD disc for purely physical reasons. What the hell all this is doing on a DVD is best left as a question to the fevered minds of the insane...

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Oh, you're on Vista... I haven't used it so I'm not up to speed on what wierdness it might have with non-super-standard formats. As for businesses, I'm not sure. Do you live near an University? Most have a "media group" type office that sells projector bulbs (?!) and does computer audio-visual stuff - that'd be my outlet if I was in your shoes. If you can, pop the DVD into an XP box and do the screen cap thing and we might be able to figure it out. Also, seconding downloading http://www.videolan.org/vlc/. It seems like there's some wierdness with VLC and Vista, so http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-vlc-player-under-vista/ might help. Good luck.

porpoise

BTW, K-Lite is very reputable and is safe. It's nice to have all those codecs anyway - just in case something ever comes along that you can't play. Like THIS! I hope this works for you!

Gerard Sorme

I downloaded and installed K-Lite, but it is still not working with WMP.

C17H19NO3

I second the suggestion of trying VLC player. I had success with it recently when trying to play back some old VCD discs.

aerotive

And opening it in media player classic has this obnoxious high-pitched tone.

C17H19NO3

If all else fails and this cannot be solved here, is there somebody I could go to that would be able to figure this out (i.e. a business of some sort)?

C17H19NO3

Try opening the file in http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htmand see if there is anything useful in the header of the file, at the very top. Sometime it'll say what program created it, etc. I haven't tried it on this type of file though.

jwells

Could you potentially buy another DVD recorder or (do a buy/return from like Costco or something), play the video of your friend's DVD recorder, and use another DVD recorder to record what's happening on the screen?

unexpected

Ok...I extracted Track 02 with IsoBuster and I can play it with VLC Media Player...however it is just playing the audio from the camera and there is no video.

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