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Mini DVDs store 1.4GB, or about 30 mins of normal quality video.  Unfortunately they can fail ofte due to camera or operator error, or just bad luck. This function will analyse the disk and determine if there is viable video on it.  If so, it will read and produce a directory with a video disk image.

The process has only only a single prompt, to ensure that the correct out put diectory has been selected.

The first stage is to read areas of the disk to determione if it is a video disk.  Many failed disks do not start until about sector 4000, ie approx 0x1000.  The next stage is to determine the range of data, testing for both top and bottom locations.  If the final location is less than maybe 0x5000 then it is likely that the video disk is not really valid.  It indicates that the full disk cannot be accessed by software alone.  CnW Recovery do provide a recovery service for such disks, which is performed using specialised hardware.

The Create image file first option will generate and image file on the output directory.  This is a useful backup of the DVD disk.

Once the output directory has been selected, the program reads the disk and extracts all MPEG files.  These are stored in a directory within the output path. The final directory structure is as below

       x:\chosen_dir\!video\mpeg\VIDEO_TS

The !video directory will have a MPEG and IFO directory to store the raw MPEG and IFO files

The VIDEO_TS directory will have a recreated disk image, and recreated IFO files - the original IFO files are ignored as often the data is not actually complete.

Once a recovery is complete, there is an option to create a new video DVD. This DVD will be playable in a standard video player.