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
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.
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!
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.
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!!!!!
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.
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!
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! :-))
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!!
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!!!!!!!!
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 😂🤗.
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!
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.
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!!!!!
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.
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
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...
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 :)
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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. :-)
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
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?
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 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!
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.
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!!!
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
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?
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?
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 ;-)
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 ;-)
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!!!!!
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 :-)
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!
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 !
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
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! :-)
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! :-))
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!
Just tried this with very old family DVD recordings and it worked. :) Thanks for helping me restore all these good memories!
Wow Wow Wow! Just recovered my late grandad's 80th birthday celebrations after 20 years. Thank you so much. Very easy to follow.
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!!
Thank you for all the positive feedback, I will upload a new (better quality) video - even more detaily described and updated soon!!
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!!
you're a lifesaver!! I was able to restore my parents' wedding video!
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
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!!!!!!!!
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 😂🤗.
This video was great. Restored video footage from over 15 years ago! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
You are the BEST!!! I have been trying to do this for YEARS....
TheMaxAcceleration
1 second ago
THANKS!!! Sorry for the late reply! :-)
Thank you, Steve. Worked like a charm!
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!!!!
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.
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!
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.
Thank you very much for your help . You have saved me lots of memories. Much appreciated for your awesome help
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! :)
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!!!
Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much.
Great video, thank you. This and a spindle of mystery DVDs with nothing written on them will keep me busy! :)
Thanks for this video! Very helpful, much appreciated.
Saved my old dvds really appreciate the video!
You are life saver. Great video. Thank you.
highly appreciated this works great
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.
THANKS YOU SO MUCH AND IT WAS A NICE INFORMATION FOR THE Present generation!!!
Thank you...
May you win the lottery my friend!
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
you re great , thank you, i was waiting for a software like this since year 2010 my regards to you
OMG it works!!!! Im so happy 😭 Thank you so much!!!
Un the newer version ie Isobuster 5.0 , when u download the free version , its not free. How to download the older version
Good job man. Thank you.
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.
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...
This is just wat i'm looking Time to Save some historie baby😊
its works thanks my friend
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!
Thanks u r the greatest,
You saved my ass, thanks buddy!!
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.
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.
Thanks for the help. Unfortunately it didn't work for me.
Absolutely perfect, thank you!
It still works! Thank you.
And it will work.... if not, I will upload another video which works :-))))
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
Appreciate the assistance sir salute u for the help
YOURE AWESOME!!!!
Great info
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.
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.
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.
Thannx its really work in 2022
Yes, thanks!
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.
please tell it is work for every scratched DVD ?
Can confirm fhis works with mini dvd rw from sony handycam circa 2010.Thank you very much!
Yes it does!!
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.
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.
Excelente!!! muchas gracias!! :) saludos!
Thanks a lot. It worked!!
Spot on !
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 u so much it perfectly works but i did not need to convert it to .mpg since the .vod file was supported thuthuthu
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!
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. :-)
I reccomend verbatim dvd-r
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
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?
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!
thank you so much!
works Perfect
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!
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
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.
All I get is that i have to pay to get any file extracted...how do I know it will work if I have to pay then it doesn't. So this doesn't work
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!!!
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
tks !!!
Thank you very much !!!
TheMaxAcceleration
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THANKS!!! Sorry for the late reply! :-)
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.
bonjour. witch. programme. could. work with. MAC. any OS X or. better. with. lion. up to Sierra the u very. much
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?
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 ;-)
Didn't work. :( I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
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
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?