Question i burned some dvds 5-6 years back in a dvd ,now 2-3 videos show - cant render while playing

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meganin

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i burned some dvds 5-6 years back in a dvd ,may be in 4 or 8x speed by nero..now 2-3 videos show - cant render while playing them , cant even copy .. it shows source cant be found
 
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meganin

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Generally the outer portion is the easiest to get scratched. If you look closely, you may find more scratches there than the rest of the DVD surface. I used to burn my DVDs at 4X because I read somewhere that the higher the burning speed, the more likely your DVD will turn into a coaster later on. Thanks to flash drives and cheap external HDDs, haven't needed to burn a DVD in what? 15 years or so.
i see my mistake now.. curiosity killed 4 files now lol ,i wanted to burn entire 4.7 gb as much i can hehe , i have one laptop harddisk too but dint think of taking thes files to that.. and at my place everything is expensive :p
"but i was soooooo soft and careful wtih the dvd while taking out and puting in .. still happen these bah.
 
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You wanna know the funny thing? The CD's and DVD's I would toss around carelessly, they would read perfectly. The ones I took extra care of, those would often cause issues. In the end, I got fed up and stopped trusting them.
 

meganin

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You wanna know the funny thing? The CD's and DVD's I would toss around carelessly, they would read perfectly. The ones I took extra care of, those would often cause issues. In the end, I got fed up and stopped trusting them.
what ! haha lol i am in the same boat as you now ! after all that care i took for them .. they behave this way to me ! spoiled ds!! lol XD
 

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I may not have read all the details but if you want to archive something, don't be leaving it in mpeg2, reencode to something more affordable to store with higher reliability media like H265, or a few years back, H264.
 
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meganin

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Oh my sorry for my incorrect assumption and subsequent man splaining.

For disk recovery I've had good luck with Photorec but you already seem to have a big enough selection of recovery tools.

oh where was the man spalaining tho ..(ah that vlc thing ,smiles ) its ok, for something very new into thes things everything basic helps ^^ shrugs ,and ya thanks will look into it..by the way i have downloaded the corrupt files again.
 

meganin

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I may not have read all the details but if you want to archive something, don't be leaving it in mpeg2, reencode to something more affordable to store with higher reliable media like H265, or a few years back, H264.
oh ok ,will keep this in mind ,gota get good computer to convert the files i have .mm it was vob file tho. is it a bad format to go corupt easy ?
 

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oh ok ,will keep this in mind ,gota get good computer to convert the files i have .mm it was vob file tho. is it a bad format to go corupt easy ?
I think the benefit is a matter of size rather than corruption resistance. Compression had improved massively over the years. MPEG 2 is quite old and limited by modern standards. Any newer compression is capable of much higher quality and/or much smaller file size.

The smaller files are easier to store.
 
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mastertech01

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A friend of mine on this forum recorded thousands of hours of old time radio programs for me on a large stack of CDs years ago. I never got around to playing most of them till I retired from my job. Not one of them would play and they never even got played once. Time is a killer for some recorded CD/DVD media.