Re: [Bug-ddrescue] keep splitting forever

[Charles Hemingway]

Mr. Diaz,

I must respectfully disagree.  I have successfully read scratched DVDs 
with ddrescue.  Extraction/recovery seems to work best if you start with 
Mplayer first.  Same for scratched audio CDs.  So long as you tell GNU 
ddrescue to obtain the correct bytes per sector, there have been no 
issues with it.  Top notch software, I might add, and it has worked 
wonders on my 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" disk collection.

As to the original poster, I've had some luck with those higher end disc 
doctor machines at video game stores.  You might try that.  Although, if 
the label is scratched, there's not much they can do.  If you can get a 
VCD that's identical via renting or borrowing from friends, that's your 
only workaround.  Of course, back up your recovered section before doing 
that, they could have a slightly different pressed version.

Sincerely
Charles Hemingway

On 06/29/2010 11:51 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> hue truc wrote:
>    
> > I'm trying to recover data from a badly scratched vcd.
> >      
> Ddrescue can't read audio or video CDs, only data CDs (CDROMS). I
> thought this was explained in ddrescue's manual, but it isn't. I'll
> document this clearly in 1.13-rc2, thanks (1.13-rc1 is already out).
>
>
> Regards,
> Antonio.
>
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