Recovering erased dvd

MidLifeCrisis_3

With massive thanks to Spakkker I now have recovered 4 VRO files which are sitting on my c drive.

Problem now is I cannot open/play these using windows media player or VLC. I have tried renaming these mpg, mpeg or vob with no result. Windows media player gives the message "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file." Windows media classic player just comes up with a dvd frame containing the date 13.05.2007 (dvd was of March-Aug 07) and then is paused.

Any help you can offer in opening/playing these VRO files and getting them restored to DVD would be greatly appreciated or anything else I could try. Most things I have found on the internet seem to involve getting the VRO files on to a pc from a camcorder rather than what I need to do.

Fingers still crossed that I can restore these files somehow and thanks

MLC

MidLifeCrisis_3

I had no joy with opening vro files so tried another freeware programme http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec. Brilliant! Having muddled my way through I now have mpg and ifo files sitting on my pc and am able to play the footage on VLC. The footage is not perfect and stalls reverting to still images in places, but I am just so grateful to have it back at all. What I need to do now is work out how to get these onto DVD and hopefully if the files are recompiled on DVD this may iron out the glitches (I don't know that they will as I'm technically challenged to say the least!).

Thanks so much to everyone for all the help so far

MLC

nick-mob

Looks like you only wiped the toc on the disk, so no reason for the glitching etc. See if you can find some better recovery/'undelete' software to use on the vro files/disk, Photorec seems to have pulled out a mangled version. Writing them back to disk in current state won't solve it.