I wondered if anyone on this mailing list might know of a free, open source
LINUX utility equivalent to the commercial Windows program, ISOBuster?
Sometimes, when I record a DVD on my stand-alone DVD recorder, I cannot access
the data (something appears to go wrong in the finalization phase). K3B will
recognize that there is data on the DVD, but is unable to mount the disk. I
also tried mounting it using the "mount" command. It says that I must specify
"type". I tried with -t iso9660, which resulted in a message like wrong fs type
....
Using dmesg | tail
I get things like "unable to identify CD-ROM format", and block 32 corrupted or
cannot be read.
In Windows, I can copy the DVD using Nero, but the resulting copy has the same
problem. I cannot mount the DVD in Windows either. However, the free trial
version of ISOBuster in Windows can recognize that all the usual video files
are there. However, the trial version will not extract them.
Before buying the commercial package for Windows, I have been trying to find
out if anyone knew of a similar Open Source utility for LINUX to extract the
recorded video from the DVD when something is wrong.
By the way, I can usually still play such DVDs on the recorder on which it was
made (but not any other). I would guess that about 20% of the DVDs I record
have this problem. The others work fine. I cannot see any pattern as to why it
works sometimes and not others.
Thanks for any help.
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