At first this did not work for me, the MPG files would not play. Simple fix was to download VLC video player and voila. My family cannot thank you enough. We lost our Dad 4 years ago, before he did he turned all our VHS to DVD but none were finalized and we did not realize until he passed. You brought back so many memories for my family. Cheers and many many thanks
IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THANK YOU FOR YOUR EXELLENT VIDEO VERY HELPFUL I GOT ALL MY LOST PETS THAT I FORGOT TO FINALIZE THAT I SAW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS !! YOU DA MAN!!!!!
Thank you! I had literally just given up on this and your video came up on autoplay as I walked away from my computer. Happened to catch your video playing and decided to boot up my windows PC again to give it a shot and IT WORKED! Can't thank you enough.
Sir, I cannot thank you enough. I've read all the great positive comments and there isn't much more that I can add. IT WORKED!!!! and I am very grateful to you for giving me the knowhow to be able to recover all my old family DVD's. Many blessing to you and your loved ones.
Thumbs up !!! Thumbs up !!! Yeah..I got tons of unfinalized DVDs because I recorded my Disk but don't want to finalized it being greedy to wait until the whole DVD is used up...and then my recorder was broken. I was left with DVDs that cannot play. Was thinking of dumping them but you saved the day! Thank you so much brother.
Still works in late 2020! Thank you so much! I was backing up some old DVDs for my grandparents that happened to be unfinalized. Isobuster coupled with handbrake worked like a charm. Thanks again!
It's 2020 and THIS IS THE ONLY THING I FOUND THAT WORKED. I'm so happy I found this video!! My file combined all my videos in an awkward montage, but I'm SO HAPPY TO HAVE THEM! I literally had an "empty" DVD and was able to recover all my videos!
Still works in 2022! Thank you so much. Thought my old home videos were lost. An issue I ran into that others might too is, I only had 1 .ibq file show up. I changed it to a .mpg file and it didn't work. I then tried to change the same file to a .vob file but it wouldn't change. I re did all the steps and this time changed the .ibq file to .vob and hey presto it worked!! Delighted!
One quick question: after the third recovery, it still works but the ipq and ibp files are not on the defined folder and I cannot find them. Where can they be?
@@jorgesampson9804 please let me help you, just drop me a line on WhatsApp + 3 6 7 0 3 0 9 2 8 8 8 (you can find me on WhatsApp, I will help you online!!
Thank you for taking the time to help. I do have DVD's that will not play. Just a blue line go's across the and then nothing. So frustrating. Thanks to your video, I have hope of seeing my home made videos again 😂🤗.
TheMaxAcceleration 1 second ago THANKS!!! Sorry for the late reply! :-) YESSS! GOD BLESS THE USA! (Although I'm from Hungary, I lived there for years.... long ago... (Clinton time) :-) But yes! I still love the US and I hope you will rise now!!!!!!!!
Yep, works wonderful. Restored about 10 DVDs (my old DVD camcorder doesn't work anymore) an it's super easy. In case 2 of DVDs it took 4 hours and its a bit "blocky" but these were very cheap DVDs we bought in Thailand (holiday, we didn't bring enough Verbatims). So this is great, thanks a lot, I love easy solutions! :-))
Thanks Steve. I was unable to salvage one of my family DVDs but had a problem with the second one. I can get to the Iosbuster screen and see the tracks when I click on Track 2, it doesn't initiate the the search for lost files. If I click on the the Video tab under my DVD+R window on the left. I see a recording but there is no way of copying the file (without the software purchase). Any suggestions? Thanks, Dean
2021 and it worked! You are awesome! Trying to finalize our old panasonic camcorder mini dvd's has been a nightmare. I tried so many others and even thought this video is a few years old and the path has a few minor changes, nevertheless, it worked....Thank you!!!!
Hey, that works great! Took 2 hrs but it was worth. I had problems with scratched DVDs, but I was saw some videos here on YT how to polish them... That will be my project for tomorrow! Thanks bro!
Yep, there are a lot of DVD and CD polishing methods... Maybe I'll go and do one as well. 1 thing: if you polish it with some "device" take care as the plastic surface can get hot very quickly! That can cause even more problems than just a few scratches.... Yes, I'll do a video how to polish them correctly. Check back this weekend!
I have used BlindWrite to successfully create a CD Image from a worn or defective CD it is a very slow process 8-11 hours it can take depending on the size of the CD 650/700MB the reason it's slow is because BlindWrite is reading the contents of a worn or defective CD if it was a CD that was hardly used or kept in good condition it would take 6-10 mins...
Hugeee thanks, this is more reliable than the most "recovery" softwares. I got like 7 cake boxes and some of the discs were not showing on the Windows Explorer or even showing on the video player (especially VLC), thanks to your solution I finally see what I've missed from those discs.
Steve you are a saviour!! I had a dozen home movie dvd's that were showing invalid directories and your method retrieved the video on all of me. Can't thant you enough. One question for you....is there a way to make them autoplay? When I converted my others on VLC they all autoplayed. Thanks again.
It worked great!!! Thank you so very, very much!!! You're awesome!!!!! Between my mother and I, we have about 40 unfinalized dvds (our dvd recorders died) so you have helped us out tremendously! Thank you ever so much!!!!!
Thank you for presenting this process in a clear, easy-to-follow manner. I did run into one problem where the output from a section processed with DVDVOBtoMPG didn't contain any audio. I know there was audio on the original DVD. Any ideas how I might restore it?
Well, this is strange... Never happened to me. May you upload the file into some cloud where I can check it with a few different softwares? Meanwhile I recommend you to download VLC PLAYER from the official website. It's free, no ads. If you still don't have sound, please let.me know.
Here's some additional detail now that I understand what happened. Following your excellent instruction I used isobuster to produce three .ibq files. After renaming them to .mpg, the second and third played find but the first didn't appear to play, remaining stuck on some kind of menu screen. That't when I used the extra step of using dvdvob2mpg (on just the first file). The results of that resulted in a .mpg file where the video worked but didn't have any sound. Thing is, I discovered a little while ago that that first .mpg file wasn't stuck on a menu, it was waiting on a menu. Once I clicked on it (who knew .mpg files supported those kinds of things?) It played just fine. Bottom line, I don't know why the needless conversion of the first .mpg file using dvdvob2mpg resulted in a soundless video and I no longer care. :) Thanks to you, everything worked fine and I feel empowered to deal with any unfinalized DVDs that may come my way. Thanks again!
Hey, im having a problem with one MiniDVD that i have, so i recorded some videos in 3 different mini dvd´s but only in one im having a problem that i cant click on finalize or unfinalize idk why and when i plug into my pc the disk appears empty like it was unfinalize. Do you know what can i do? I can watch the videos in my Handycam
maybe you will do another clip with best solution on unreadable sectors from dvd's . On program we have 3 options. 1. omit sectors; 2. Replace wit all zeroes; 3. Replace with dummy data.
Thanks for the video. Unfortunately I cannot extract without paying USD$59.95 for the personal license to extract Sony Handicam mini DVD files. It was worth a try though.
I was so excited when I found this DIY DVD+R recovery walk through. I have a DVD+R from years ago that I copied home movies from my camcorder to a stand alone dvd "Lite On" recorder in effort to preserve the memories on disc rather on camcorder mini tape. I indeed viewed the continence on the DVD a few times on the stand alone dvd player but never finalized the DVD+R disc until one day it suddenly was unreadable. I know the video is on there, I've watched it! So, I downloaded ISO Buster and right away seem to hit a snag. When I put the DVD+R in the PC DVD Rom Drive it still seems not to recognize that there is even a disc inside // Iso Buster isn't recognizing it either. Any thoughts?
Hi Steve, OMG you save me , thankyou so much. I had so many preciouse memmories stuck in those DVDs and i converted them and can see only because of you. You made my day, thank you so so much. But the only problem I am facing is that the volume is showing mute but i tried to unmute it....not working. Pls help me if you can . TIA.
Both my dvd sv2000 recorders won't let me watch, record, or finalize my sony dvd-r disc with data on it. Will this software finalize the disc to play on all dvd players? if so, do i need to have a recorder RAM installed to my laptop to finalize or does it work on the normal laptop RAM? I use Windows 10
This video helped me recover and copy my wedding DVD to a file. I can play it with audio in VLC player but when I create a DVD I do not get audio. Any thoughts?
Hi late answer... I tried it and it works excellent with MAGIX VIDEO DELUXE, I downloaded a cracked version from a torrent site. But older versions are cheap and they should work too.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I went for the paid version. I just recovered L.A. Dragnet s02e01 that I forgot to finalize. I will tell everybody about this. Are you involved with this company? Whether or not you are, best of luck to you. ❤
Hello! No I have nothing to do with them, I was just searching for a solution for myself. After spending 2 weekends on finding a working solution, I wanted to share it with everyone 🙂 Thanks for your nice words :)
Hello, this is a great dvd with simple instructions, unfortunately it isn’t working for me and when I click the video links it doesn’t ask me if I want to search for missing data it just gives me a list of options extract, run etc and any one I click it says I need a key and to purchase. I’ve got about 10 homemade dvds of my children and for some reason they aren’t working, I’d be so grateful for ur help? Many thanks
Thank you for your video! I managed to read an otherwise unreadable disc and copy it to a folder. However I believe it has both video and photos on it. Any suggestions for separating out those individual jpgs? Thanks again!
If you have difficulties, you may try it on another computer or or another PC DVD reader. And don't forget to clean your DVDs surface before you begin with the process. :-)
Thank you. Great instructions. Question: After recovering the files and conversion, how do we burn them to a DVD in the order that they were before (on unfinalized DVD)? Best regards to you ;-)
I am so thankful but the only bad thing was it only found 1.55 minutes, the rest of the wedding wasn’t found, the video is there but won’t play because it says it doesn’t support the file even when I change it to Vob
Hi! This video has really helped. The only issue we are having is that we cannot change it from a IBQ to either the MPG or the VOB. When we first extract it from the ISO, it puts it in the Windows Media Player format and then won't open it... says that type of file can't be opened. I believe it stays IBQ no matter what we do. Any suggestions?
This was SO SO helpful! Thank you so much! I was worried I would never be able to get an unfinalized mini dvd of my dog when she was a puppy from 14 years ago and this worked!! I'm so excited right now.
I get two files, one is the video about 1.8GB and one is a 115k file. Neither are valid VOB files... The 1.8GB file does play, but lacks any keyframes so you cannot fast forward. My DVD has 3 tracks, so I am wondering if that is the reason.
Thanks for the video! I haven't tried DVDVOB2MPG yet but ISOBuster is working for me (20th of July 2021). VLC media player can play the .ibq file, albeit with noticeable interlacing. Do you know anything about removing that? Thanks again!
Hi Steve - Great video but after I burn the file to a DVD my DVD player will not play the video. This is a DVD player hooked up to my TV. Thanks in advance for your help.
Hi! It's not enough to burn the VOB files. A regular Video DVD has other files on the disk too, without them your DVD player won't recognize the disk. Here's what you can do: - Burn your rescued files with "VSO ConvertX to DVD" - it is a pretty nasty software unless you leave anything as it is. If your goal is to view what's on and if you do not care about fancy DVD menus, this will be fine. I'm sure you'll find an older "full version" for free somewhere on the internet, for your *.mpg files you can use any file version of the above mentioned software, doesn't matter how old it is. - You can also use a media player and copy the DVD files onto a pendrive. (Note that pendrives have a pretty short lifetime (1-10 years). They may won't get broken after 10 years, but you won't be able to play the files on them. (Once you format them again, they will work but you won't be able to recover your movies from there. So I suggest you to keep a copy of any important files you have (pics, videos, document files or whatever) on an high quality DVD disk in a DVD box. I recommend you to get some original "Taiyo Yuden DVDs". Note that there are a lot of fakes. - If you have a newer TV, it will be able to read the recovered *.mpg files from any pendrive or portable HDD. Again, always keep a copy of your important stuff on a hq archival DVD. And DO NOT burn it faster than 8x. Even HQ archival grade DVD will "fade" after 10-15 years if burned with a 16x speed or even faster!! If you can set your burning speed to 4x, that would be great. Then it will last for a very very long time. For any question you may contact me here ;-) Cheers, Steve
Kirsty Strain hey kirsty, I’ve found out that even after we changed the file to .vod but the icon still doesnt change to the orange cone, you’ll just have to open the file as instructed in VOB2MPG and it’ll still do the work
This worked amazingly thank you! One issue though, I've experienced that some of my discs it doesn't play sounds, is anyone else having that issue or is it just me?
@@rohanaswal4523 I actually haven't I ended up ordering the same camcorder I used to record with back then (for a fairly cheap price too), and finalized it with that
You may set the default software for opening mpg files to your preferred media player (like VLC or Windows Media Player). Probability Isobuster set himself "as default player" for mpg files, but you can easily set it by yourself, just right click the mpg file and go search for "open with..." or similar, maybe "chose default..", can't remember now, but you'll find it for sure 😉
@@normy1471 OK, you can burn ANY iso file to DVD. With most any DVD burning software. You can also mount it as a "drive". There is CDburnerXP. You can set burn iso to DVD. Believe me, it will work. Here is the download link, no virus or malware: cdburnerxp.se/hu/home Let me know when it's burned ;-)
Hi guys. I did follow all of the steps and on the end I got only one Ibp and one Ibq file. I think because of that I still can not watch this video. Does anyone know what might cost the problem? Why I only get one Ibq file instead of two?
When I first tried this, I got the warning when trying to convert to the MPG. After my husband did something, it only downloaded in a Windows Media Player format and now I cannot change it to the MPG or the VOB. It stays in the IBQ format. How do I change that? I'm not sure what he did.
Works only for regular Movie DVDs. If you have files on them, first clean them with some microfibre towel lightly soaked in water with a bit of fluid soap. Then use the free version of PIRIFORM RECUVA with deep scan. It will help, I'm sure. If you have CDs, not DVDs, hold them to a bright light source a check whether it has small holes where the light comes thru. If yes, you will not or just partly be able to recover the CD. EASUS software works fine as well, but it's not free, maybe you can one on a torrent site, but check it with a good antivirus and malware fighter :-)
Hello Thiago! This is only for Video DVDs which you can't read anymore or which are not finalized. Yes, I wrote W.David's reply, just the perfect way. I would add one thing: Try it on at least 2 different DVD drives! If there's no success, just drop me a line, there are more "hardcore" recovery softwares, but I would try these two in the first round as well (Thanks W.David). Wish you good luck!
man. I have a sony mini dvd handycam. I was filming something the other day and an error popped up. something like the lid where the mini dvd is stored was open. It said something like connect the unit with the charger, i connected it but then I disconnected it by mistake. i fucked up. Now nor the handy cam or my pc reads my mini dvd. I could erase it but i have really valuable stuff there. My guess is that it got stuck in the middle of finalizing. So it is not "unfinalized" or finalized. your video gave me hope but it didnt work. I beg you to think and try to give me a solution. It is a regrabable mini dvd. I tried nero and cdroller but it didnt work. please man just give me some hope. it is really valuable. thank you.
your video leaves me with a ibp light file and an IBQ 32gb file. when i turn it to mgp I cant watch it. Isobuster gives me the option to see "signature files" or smthing like that but I need a serial. is it worth it?
Hello! Follow it step by step, it will work, I promise. But you can even mail it to me, I do it for free. I did about 100+ for free for people I have never seen, since I have posted this video.
I've followed all the steps up to the opening of the dvd. I was thrilled when I saw all was going as supposed to. But then, whe I had to open the dvd drive, the pc keeps making this funny noise and it won't open. I can see that there is somethiung recorded in the disc, but the pc does not recognize it... what a pity! Any ideas? 😢
After a while, it tells me the cd is empty, but I can see that it is not, because of the marks on it. I fact, I know tht it is not because I recorded my little dauhgter videos from her first year and I am so sad to have lost them..
My laptops drive won’t even read it, it makes strange sounds and then stops spinning. I’m getting a camera to finalise them anyway as that seems like the only option.
@@TheMaxAcceleration The difference between what I tried and what you did, is it actually comes up for you saying that a DVD-RW disc is in the drive but nothing shows inside. Mine won’t read them at all, like I said the disc drive makes weird sounds that it never makes when it properly reads a disc, and it never shows up in the computer, this software won’t fix that. Also, I don’t believe it needs to be the identical model but I’ve bought the exact same model we have anyway just in case.
Hey, got a problem. This worked for me before but apparently it doesn't anymore. Have both .IBP and .IBQ files. Tried renaming .IBQ to VOB. It works when I play it in VLC but when I try to convert it to .MPG via DVDVob2Mpg it's corrupted and won't play. Not working for both finalized and unfinalized DVDs. Used to work on Windows 7; now using Windows 10. PLEASE HELP
Hi! There are a lot of other video file converters, you may try one of them. I have a good one, a corporate edition, so I can give you a serial as well, will work 'till the end of 2022. But pls don't share it!!! Where can I send you the link? This one works for sure, in advance it uses all cores and threads, so even with a relatively low budget PC with 4 cores you can work pretty fast (of course forget any other work as long as it is converting) :-)
@@TheMaxAcceleration thx for the reply! I could give you one of my emails but I don't want it leaked to the public lol XD how can we send private messages?
@@SaveTheGregoryHorrorShow No idea... really don't know, LOL... but you're right, wouldn't share mine either! I'll ask my IT guy tomorrow!! I Will be back soon, just finished work... It's 1:17 a.m. over here... gotta go sleep! Will come back to this tomorrow. I'm sure my IT guy knows how to handle such things :-)
You can play it with VLC media player for sure. Or you can convert them into a easier, smaller size *.mkv video file. More convenient, smaller, same quality with proper settings. But again, VLC media player should be able to play it.
It works partially for me, I could get the files with the extensions mentioned, but I couldn't change it for ".mpg". I just can change one of those for ".vob". In other words I just could change the file that has the extension wrote, the other file does not have the extension wrote. I hope someone can help me, please.
@@DodoBenny Yea! I did just that, and worked, partially again. When I rename it to mpg it plays but in a weird file cause the sound isn't synchronized with the frames, I had to rename it directly to .vob and then convert to mpg. Don't know if I lost some tracks due this cause there are some of them that are incomplete
DO NOT EXTRACT! Just follow the guy as he describes the steps. It worked for me even with finalized DVDs, which were scratched!! Nothing could play it. I only lost 3-4 minutes out of 1.5 hrs of family video. This guy is a genius!!!
At first this did not work for me, the MPG files would not play. Simple fix was to download VLC video player and voila. My family cannot thank you enough. We lost our Dad 4 years ago, before he did he turned all our VHS to DVD but none were finalized and we did not realize until he passed. You brought back so many memories for my family. Cheers and many many thanks
I AM SPEECHLESS. I DON'T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND HOW HELPFUL THIS VIDEO IS. THANK YOU FOR MAKING A VIDEO THAT MAKES SENSES, HELPFUL AND GOOD QUALITY.
IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THANK YOU FOR YOUR EXELLENT VIDEO VERY HELPFUL I GOT ALL MY LOST PETS THAT I FORGOT TO FINALIZE THAT I SAW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS !! YOU DA MAN!!!!!
MAN I HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING WITH THIS FOR MONTHS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FROM VENEZUELA
Thank you! I had literally just given up on this and your video came up on autoplay as I walked away from my computer. Happened to catch your video playing and decided to boot up my windows PC again to give it a shot and IT WORKED! Can't thank you enough.
Sir, I cannot thank you enough. I've read all the great positive comments and there isn't much more that I can add. IT WORKED!!!! and I am very grateful to you for giving me the knowhow to be able to recover all my old family DVD's.
Many blessing to you and your loved ones.
Thumbs up !!! Thumbs up !!! Yeah..I got tons of unfinalized DVDs because I recorded my Disk but don't want to finalized it being greedy to wait until the whole DVD is used up...and then my recorder was broken. I was left with DVDs that cannot play. Was thinking of dumping them but you saved the day! Thank you so much brother.
Thanks a lot! I know, it takes time to recover them, but it's worth :-)
Thank you for all the positive feedback, I will upload a new (better quality) video - even more detaily described and updated soon!!
Still works in late 2020! Thank you so much! I was backing up some old DVDs for my grandparents that happened to be unfinalized. Isobuster coupled with handbrake worked like a charm. Thanks again!
Thanx for your kind reply!
It's 2020 and THIS IS THE ONLY THING I FOUND THAT WORKED. I'm so happy I found this video!! My file combined all my videos in an awkward montage, but I'm SO HAPPY TO HAVE THEM! I literally had an "empty" DVD and was able to recover all my videos!
Still works in 2022! Thank you so much. Thought my old home videos were lost. An issue I ran into that others might too is, I only had 1 .ibq file show up. I changed it to a .mpg file and it didn't work. I then tried to change the same file to a .vob file but it wouldn't change. I re did all the steps and this time changed the .ibq file to .vob and hey presto it worked!! Delighted!
you are the best! i look for 2 months to find a cd key to cdRoller ! What you explain here work perfectly !! Thank you again !
you're a lifesaver!! I was able to restore my parents' wedding video!
THANK YOU SO MUCH. AWESOME. I WAS FREAKING OUT BUT NOW I HAVE THE MEMORIES ALL BACK. THANK YOU AGAIN.
One quick question: after the third recovery, it still works but the ipq and ibp files are not on the defined folder and I cannot find them. Where can they be?
@@jorgesampson9804 please let me help you, just drop me a line on WhatsApp + 3 6 7 0 3 0 9 2 8 8 8 (you can find me on WhatsApp, I will help you online!!
Finally a video that works! Thank you for this video, I was able to rescue many old DVD's.....you are the best!
THANKS!!! Sorry for the late reply! :-)
This video was great. Restored video footage from over 15 years ago! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
IT WORKED!!!! Omg thank you! I have videos of family that passed away from my stepdad who passed and didn’t finalize them. Thank you so much!!
I have been going through years of Unfinalized mini dvds of my son as a baby. You saved many memories…thank you so much. Truly grateful
Thank you for taking the time to help. I do have DVD's that will not play. Just a blue line go's across the and then nothing. So frustrating. Thanks to your video, I have hope of seeing my home made videos again 😂🤗.
WOW I CANT BELIEVE IT. Thanks BRO. U HELPED ME AFTER 10 YEARS OF SEARCHING A SOLUTION TO MY PROBLEM.. GOD BLESS YOU AND BLESS AMERICA
TheMaxAcceleration
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THANKS!!! Sorry for the late reply! :-)
YESSS! GOD BLESS THE USA! (Although I'm from Hungary, I lived there for years.... long ago... (Clinton time) :-) But yes! I still love the US and I hope you will rise now!!!!!!!!
I never get the blue link "do you want to search for missing files". It only allows me to see the sub folders where the .VOB files are.
Yep, works wonderful. Restored about 10 DVDs (my old DVD camcorder doesn't work anymore) an it's super easy. In case 2 of DVDs it took 4 hours and its a bit "blocky" but these were very cheap DVDs we bought in Thailand (holiday, we didn't bring enough Verbatims). So this is great, thanks a lot, I love easy solutions! :-))
Thank you so much. I've been very lazy not finalising discs and now my Toshiba HDD-DVD recorder has died. i was stuck until i found you.
I'm happy I could help :-) sorry for the bad quality of the video footage.
Just tried this with very old family DVD recordings and it worked. :) Thanks for helping me restore all these good memories!
You are the BEST!!! I have been trying to do this for YEARS....
TheMaxAcceleration
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THANKS!!! Sorry for the late reply! :-)
Thanks Steve. I was unable to salvage one of my family DVDs but had a problem with the second one.
I can get to the Iosbuster screen and see the tracks when I click on Track 2, it doesn't initiate the the search for lost files. If I click on the the Video tab under my DVD+R window on the left. I see a recording but there is no way of copying the file (without the software purchase). Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dean
Wow Wow Wow! Just recovered my late grandad's 80th birthday celebrations after 20 years. Thank you so much. Very easy to follow.
2021 and it worked! You are awesome! Trying to finalize our old panasonic camcorder mini dvd's has been a nightmare. I tried so many others and even thought this video is a few years old and the path has a few minor changes, nevertheless, it worked....Thank you!!!!
Hey, that works great! Took 2 hrs but it was worth. I had problems with scratched DVDs, but I was saw some videos here on YT how to polish them... That will be my project for tomorrow! Thanks bro!
Yep, there are a lot of DVD and CD polishing methods... Maybe I'll go and do one as well. 1 thing: if you polish it with some "device" take care as the plastic surface can get hot very quickly! That can cause even more problems than just a few scratches.... Yes, I'll do a video how to polish them correctly. Check back this weekend!
I have used BlindWrite to successfully create a CD Image from a worn or defective CD it is a very slow process 8-11 hours it can take depending on the size of the CD 650/700MB the reason it's slow is because BlindWrite is reading the contents of a worn or defective CD if it was a CD that was hardly used or kept in good condition it would take 6-10 mins...
I am using recovery toolbox fo CD right now seems to be working but it's been about 24 hours and I think it's going to take days to complete.
Hugeee thanks, this is more reliable than the most "recovery" softwares. I got like 7 cake boxes and some of the discs were not showing on the Windows Explorer or even showing on the video player (especially VLC), thanks to your solution I finally see what I've missed from those discs.
Steve you are a saviour!! I had a dozen home movie dvd's that were showing invalid directories and your method retrieved the video on all of me. Can't thant you enough. One question for you....is there a way to make them autoplay? When I converted my others on VLC they all autoplayed. Thanks again.
Thank you very much for your help . You have saved me lots of memories. Much appreciated for your awesome help
Great video! Just used it and it is still working today
Un the newer version ie Isobuster 5.0 , when u download the free version , its not free. How to download the older version
Thank you, Steve. Worked like a charm!
If you are getting the "Your files are in an unreadable location" error you can also right click on Track 02 and export as an .iso file.
It worked great!!! Thank you so very, very much!!! You're awesome!!!!! Between my mother and I, we have about 40 unfinalized dvds (our dvd recorders died) so you have helped us out tremendously! Thank you ever so much!!!!!
You're very welcome! Hope that many people can save their memories these way :-)
Hi, great to hear from you, thank you for your reply and nice heart icon, that is so cool !!! I loved it! :)
Nice video man but all that popped up for me is you need to be registered for that function. Have an 18 year old sony mini dvd with home videos on it.
please tell it is work for every scratched DVD ?
May you win the lottery my friend!
Thank you for presenting this process in a clear, easy-to-follow manner. I did run into one problem where the output from a section processed with DVDVOBtoMPG didn't contain any audio. I know there was audio on the original DVD. Any ideas how I might restore it?
Well, this is strange... Never happened to me. May you upload the file into some cloud where I can check it with a few different softwares? Meanwhile I recommend you to download VLC PLAYER from the official website. It's free, no ads. If you still don't have sound, please let.me know.
Here's some additional detail now that I understand what happened. Following your excellent instruction I used isobuster to produce three .ibq files. After renaming them to .mpg, the second and third played find but the first didn't appear to play, remaining stuck on some kind of menu screen. That't when I used the extra step of using dvdvob2mpg (on just the first file). The results of that resulted in a .mpg file where the video worked but didn't have any sound.
Thing is, I discovered a little while ago that that first .mpg file wasn't stuck on a menu, it was waiting on a menu. Once I clicked on it (who knew .mpg files supported those kinds of things?) It played just fine.
Bottom line, I don't know why the needless conversion of the first .mpg file using dvdvob2mpg resulted in a soundless video and I no longer care. :) Thanks to you, everything worked fine and I feel empowered to deal with any unfinalized DVDs that may come my way.
Thanks again!
Hey, im having a problem with one MiniDVD that i have, so i recorded some videos in 3 different mini dvd´s but only in one im having a problem that i cant click on finalize or unfinalize idk why and when i plug into my pc the disk appears empty like it was unfinalize. Do you know what can i do? I can watch the videos in my Handycam
Thanks for the help. Unfortunately it didn't work for me.
Saved my old dvds really appreciate the video!
Great video, thank you. This and a spindle of mystery DVDs with nothing written on them will keep me busy! :)
maybe you will do another clip with best solution on unreadable sectors from dvd's . On program we have 3 options. 1. omit sectors; 2. Replace wit all zeroes; 3. Replace with dummy data.
Thanks for the video. Unfortunately I cannot extract without paying USD$59.95 for the personal license to extract Sony Handicam mini DVD files. It was worth a try though.
Can confirm fhis works with mini dvd rw from sony handycam circa 2010.Thank you very much!
Yes it does!!
I was so excited when I found this DIY DVD+R recovery walk through. I have a DVD+R from years ago that I copied home movies from my camcorder to a stand alone dvd "Lite On" recorder in effort to preserve the memories on disc rather on camcorder mini tape. I indeed viewed the continence on the DVD a few times on the stand alone dvd player but never finalized the DVD+R disc until one day it suddenly was unreadable. I know the video is on there, I've watched it! So, I downloaded ISO Buster and right away seem to hit a snag. When I put the DVD+R in the PC DVD Rom Drive it still seems not to recognize that there is even a disc inside // Iso Buster isn't recognizing it either. Any thoughts?
Hi Steve, OMG you save me , thankyou so much. I had so many preciouse memmories stuck in those DVDs and i converted them and can see only because of you. You made my day, thank you so so much. But the only problem I am facing is that the volume is showing mute but i tried to unmute it....not working. Pls help me if you can . TIA.
Both my dvd sv2000 recorders won't let me watch, record, or finalize my sony dvd-r disc with data on it. Will this software finalize the disc to play on all dvd players? if so, do i need to have a recorder RAM installed to my laptop to finalize or does it work on the normal laptop RAM? I use Windows 10
This video helped me recover and copy my wedding DVD to a file. I can play it with audio in VLC player but when I create a DVD I do not get audio. Any thoughts?
Hi late answer... I tried it and it works excellent with MAGIX VIDEO DELUXE, I downloaded a cracked version from a torrent site. But older versions are cheap and they should work too.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I went for the paid version. I just recovered L.A. Dragnet s02e01 that I forgot to finalize. I will tell everybody about this. Are you involved with this company? Whether or not you are, best of luck to you. ❤
Hello! No I have nothing to do with them, I was just searching for a solution for myself. After spending 2 weekends on finding a working solution, I wanted to share it with everyone 🙂
Thanks for your nice words :)
@@TheMaxAcceleration Any time buddy!
If you record a disc on a Sony product for instance…you can play it on another Sony product…it will work. Must be the same brand.
Thanks for this video! Very helpful, much appreciated.
Hello, this is a great dvd with simple instructions, unfortunately it isn’t working for me and when I click the video links it doesn’t ask me if I want to search for missing data it just gives me a list of options extract, run etc and any one I click it says I need a key and to purchase.
I’ve got about 10 homemade dvds of my children and for some reason they aren’t working, I’d be so grateful for ur help? Many thanks
I had this issue too. Right click the file and see if it gives you the option to "Search for missing data" from the options it gives you.
Thank you for your video! I managed to read an otherwise unreadable disc and copy it to a folder. However I believe it has both video and photos on it. Any suggestions for separating out those individual jpgs?
Thanks again!
Yesss! Use Piriform Recuva (free version) with deep scan enabled!!
Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much.
THANKS YOU SO MUCH AND IT WAS A NICE INFORMATION FOR THE Present generation!!!
This is just wat i'm looking Time to Save some historie baby😊
Thanks, it shot up to 14% then it went very slow to 17.5% over the past hour. Hopefully it just needs a few hours 🙏
If you have difficulties, you may try it on another computer or or another PC DVD reader.
And don't forget to clean your DVDs surface before you begin with the process. :-)
Thank you. Great instructions. Question: After recovering the files and conversion, how do we burn them to a DVD in the order that they were before (on unfinalized DVD)? Best regards to you ;-)
Just use VSO software.... I'm pretty sure you will find some site where you can download it for free
I am so thankful but the only bad thing was it only found 1.55 minutes, the rest of the wedding wasn’t found, the video is there but won’t play because it says it doesn’t support the file even when I change it to Vob
upload it pls to a cloud and I'll fix it for you!
OMG it works!!!! Im so happy 😭 Thank you so much!!!
You are life saver. Great video. Thank you.
Hi! This video has really helped. The only issue we are having is that we cannot change it from a IBQ to either the MPG or the VOB. When we first extract it from the ISO, it puts it in the Windows Media Player format and then won't open it... says that type of file can't be opened. I believe it stays IBQ no matter what we do. Any suggestions?
enable in Windows - "show common file extensions"! After this you will be able to rename the file extension.
you re great , thank you, i was waiting for a software like this since year 2010 my regards to you
This was SO SO helpful! Thank you so much! I was worried I would never be able to get an unfinalized mini dvd of my dog when she was a puppy from 14 years ago and this worked!! I'm so excited right now.
Works GREAT!!! THANK YOU!!!
I get two files, one is the video about 1.8GB and one is a 115k file. Neither are valid VOB files... The 1.8GB file does play, but lacks any keyframes so you cannot fast forward. My DVD has 3 tracks, so I am wondering if that is the reason.
Thannx its really work in 2022
Yes, thanks!
Thanks for the video! I haven't tried DVDVOB2MPG yet but ISOBuster is working for me (20th of July 2021). VLC media player can play the .ibq file, albeit with noticeable interlacing. Do you know anything about removing that? Thanks again!
Just go to the menu "video" and choose "deinterlace" 😊👍🏻
thank u so much it perfectly works but i did not need to convert it to .mpg since the .vod file was supported thuthuthu
I went to split the video as I had different ones on the dvd but when I did with easy cutter I got no sound
Hi Steve - Great video but after I burn the file to a DVD my DVD player will not play the video. This is a DVD player hooked up to my TV. Thanks in advance for your help.
Hi! It's not enough to burn the VOB files.
A regular Video DVD has other files on the disk too, without them your DVD player won't recognize the disk.
Here's what you can do:
- Burn your rescued files with "VSO ConvertX to DVD" - it is a pretty nasty software unless you leave anything as it is. If your goal is to view what's on and if you do not care about fancy DVD menus, this will be fine. I'm sure you'll find an older "full version" for free somewhere on the internet, for your *.mpg files you can use any file version of the above mentioned software, doesn't matter how old it is.
- You can also use a media player and copy the DVD files onto a pendrive. (Note that pendrives have a pretty short lifetime (1-10 years). They may won't get broken after 10 years, but you won't be able to play the files on them. (Once you format them again, they will work but you won't be able to recover your movies from there. So I suggest you to keep a copy of any important files you have (pics, videos, document files or whatever) on an high quality DVD disk in a DVD box. I recommend you to get some original "Taiyo Yuden DVDs". Note that there are a lot of fakes.
- If you have a newer TV, it will be able to read the recovered *.mpg files from any pendrive or portable HDD.
Again, always keep a copy of your important stuff on a hq archival DVD. And DO NOT burn it faster than 8x.
Even HQ archival grade DVD will "fade" after 10-15 years if burned with a 16x speed or even faster!!
If you can set your burning speed to 4x, that would be great. Then it will last for a very very long time.
For any question you may contact me here ;-)
Cheers,
Steve
bonjour. witch. programme. could. work with. MAC. any OS X or. better. with. lion. up to Sierra the u very. much
HELP... when I change to th .VOD the icon doesn't change to an orange cone it stays the same.
Kirsty Strain ya same please help
Kirsty Strain hey kirsty, I’ve found out that even after we changed the file to .vod but the icon still doesnt change to the orange cone, you’ll just have to open the file as instructed in VOB2MPG and it’ll still do the work
@@oscar3893 Just download VLC video player.
@@oscar3893 Just download VLC video player.
Thank you...
This is work for every damaged DVD ?
Depends on what kind of damage..
Please describe...
@@TheMaxAcceleration this is work for every scratched DVD ?
@@TheMaxAcceleration only scratched DVD
@@TheMaxAcceleration please tell it is work for every scratched DVD ?
This worked amazingly thank you!
One issue though, I've experienced that some of my discs it doesn't play sounds, is anyone else having that issue or is it just me?
it's probably you.haha
hey i am having the same issue. you got any solutions man?
@@rohanaswal4523 I actually haven't I ended up ordering the same camcorder I used to record with back then (for a fairly cheap price too), and finalized it with that
One of my dvds had errors in it, it saved as a IBQ file, but when I rename mpg, it still opens with ISOBUSTER.
And were you able to save it successfully?
You may set the default software for opening mpg files to your preferred media player (like VLC or Windows Media Player). Probability Isobuster set himself "as default player" for mpg files, but you can easily set it by yourself, just right click the mpg file and go search for "open with..." or similar, maybe "chose default..", can't remember now, but you'll find it for sure 😉
saved it as an iso file, but can't open it. very frustrating.
@@normy1471 OK, you can burn ANY iso file to DVD. With most any DVD burning software. You can also mount it as a "drive". There is CDburnerXP. You can set burn iso to DVD. Believe me, it will work. Here is the download link, no virus or malware: cdburnerxp.se/hu/home
Let me know when it's burned ;-)
mine stucks at 14%.. thnk u by the way.. I think my has a problem
Hi guys. I did follow all of the steps and on the end I got only one Ibp and one Ibq file. I think because of that I still can not watch this video. Does anyone know what might cost the problem? Why I only get one Ibq file instead of two?
Appreciate the assistance sir salute u for the help
Good job man. Thank you.
When I first tried this, I got the warning when trying to convert to the MPG. After my husband did something, it only downloaded in a Windows Media Player format and now I cannot change it to the MPG or the VOB. It stays in the IBQ format. How do I change that? I'm not sure what he did.
See if you can hit the undo button. That's what I had to do, not sure if it'll work if you already closed all the way out tho
Excelente!!! muchas gracias!! :) saludos!
Can u help me, my handycam says unable to recognize data, i record with my handcam already annd i think it's gone 😭
I reccomend verbatim dvd-r
Does this works for any other files then only videos? I have an old dvd with a lot of files that I need to recover...
Works only for regular Movie DVDs. If you have files on them, first clean them with some microfibre towel lightly soaked in water with a bit of fluid soap. Then use the free version of PIRIFORM RECUVA with deep scan.
It will help, I'm sure. If you have CDs, not DVDs, hold them to a bright light source a check whether it has small holes where the light comes thru. If yes, you will not or just partly be able to recover the CD.
EASUS software works fine as well, but it's not free, maybe you can one on a torrent site, but check it with a good antivirus and malware fighter :-)
@@Soproni_Larynx_Forditoiroda Thanks mate, the dvd's alredy clean, I'll give a try with this Recuva, right now I'm trying with ddrescue
Hi! I don't know that one, but Recuva with deep scan and EASEUS helped me sooo often.
Wish you success!!!
Hello Thiago!
This is only for Video DVDs which you can't read anymore or which are not finalized.
Yes, I wrote W.David's reply, just the perfect way.
I would add one thing:
Try it on at least 2 different DVD drives!
If there's no success, just drop me a line, there are more "hardcore" recovery softwares, but I would try these two in the first round as well (Thanks W.David).
Wish you good luck!
man. I have a sony mini dvd handycam. I was filming something the other day and an error popped up. something like the lid where the mini dvd is stored was open. It said something like connect the unit with the charger, i connected it but then I disconnected it by mistake. i fucked up. Now nor the handy cam or my pc reads my mini dvd. I could erase it but i have really valuable stuff there. My guess is that it got stuck in the middle of finalizing. So it is not "unfinalized" or finalized. your video gave me hope but it didnt work. I beg you to think and try to give me a solution. It is a regrabable mini dvd. I tried nero and cdroller but it didnt work. please man just give me some hope. it is really valuable. thank you.
your video leaves me with a ibp light file and an IBQ 32gb file. when i turn it to mgp I cant watch it. Isobuster gives me the option to see "signature files" or smthing like that but I need a serial. is it worth it?
Hello!
Follow it step by step, it will work, I promise. But you can even mail it to me, I do it for free. I did about 100+ for free for people I have never seen, since I have posted this video.
I've followed all the steps up to the opening of the dvd. I was thrilled when I saw all was going as supposed to. But then, whe I had to open the dvd drive, the pc keeps making this funny noise and it won't open. I can see that there is somethiung recorded in the disc, but the pc does not recognize it... what a pity! Any ideas? 😢
After a while, it tells me the cd is empty, but I can see that it is not, because of the marks on it. I fact, I know tht it is not because I recorded my little dauhgter videos from her first year and I am so sad to have lost them..
Try to clean the DVD and / or in another dvd drive! Must work!
Try to clean the DVD and / or in another dvd drive! Must work!
highly appreciated this works great
My laptops drive won’t even read it, it makes strange sounds and then stops spinning. I’m getting a camera to finalise them anyway as that seems like the only option.
Did you do flow all steps? It is a working solution. Finalizing is only possible withe the same brand and model camera.
@@TheMaxAcceleration The difference between what I tried and what you did, is it actually comes up for you saying that a DVD-RW disc is in the drive but nothing shows inside. Mine won’t read them at all, like I said the disc drive makes weird sounds that it never makes when it properly reads a disc, and it never shows up in the computer, this software won’t fix that.
Also, I don’t believe it needs to be the identical model but I’ve bought the exact same model we have anyway just in case.
Hey, got a problem. This worked for me before but apparently it doesn't anymore. Have both .IBP and .IBQ files. Tried renaming .IBQ to VOB. It works when I play it in VLC but when I try to convert it to .MPG via DVDVob2Mpg it's corrupted and won't play. Not working for both finalized and unfinalized DVDs. Used to work on Windows 7; now using Windows 10. PLEASE HELP
Hi!
There are a lot of other video file converters, you may try one of them. I have a good one, a corporate edition, so I can give you a serial as well, will work 'till the end of 2022. But pls don't share it!!! Where can I send you the link? This one works for sure, in advance it uses all cores and threads, so even with a relatively low budget PC with 4 cores you can work pretty fast (of course forget any other work as long as it is converting) :-)
@@TheMaxAcceleration thx for the reply! I could give you one of my emails but I don't want it leaked to the public lol XD how can we send private messages?
@@SaveTheGregoryHorrorShow No idea... really don't know, LOL... but you're right, wouldn't share mine either! I'll ask my IT guy tomorrow!! I Will be back soon, just finished work... It's 1:17 a.m. over here... gotta go sleep! Will come back to this tomorrow. I'm sure my IT guy knows how to handle such things :-)
@@TheMaxAcceleration no problem. It's 8:00 at night here so I'll wait
@@TheMaxAcceleration did you figure it out yet
Not sure what I am doing wrong but after renaming the file as mpg, it is not playing on my media player. What did I do wrong
You can play it with VLC media player for sure.
Or you can convert them into a easier, smaller size *.mkv video file. More convenient, smaller, same quality with proper settings.
But again, VLC media player should be able to play it.
It works partially for me, I could get the files with the extensions mentioned, but I couldn't change it for ".mpg". I just can change one of those for ".vob". In other words I just could change the file that has the extension wrote, the other file does not have the extension wrote.
I hope someone can help me, please.
you have to set windows to show the extension of all kind of files. Than you can change it. It's easy just search google for "show file extension"
@@DodoBenny Yea! I did just that, and worked, partially again. When I rename it to mpg it plays but in a weird file cause the sound isn't synchronized with the frames, I had to rename it directly to .vob and then convert to mpg. Don't know if I lost some tracks due this cause there are some of them that are incomplete
@@juliohdzbucio How did you get it to extract multiple tracks? The free version only let's me rocover a single track at a time?
In order for me to extract, it says I need to register first and get a key. What did I do wrong?
DO NOT EXTRACT! Just follow the guy as he describes the steps. It worked for me even with finalized DVDs, which were scratched!! Nothing could play it. I only lost 3-4 minutes out of 1.5 hrs of family video. This guy is a genius!!!