a few months ago i backed up my collection of favorite music videos onto a single DVD because i needed to conserve hard drive space. when that space freed up again a few days ago, i went to copy the videos back to my hard drive but i was unable to copy the files from the DVD, presumably because of read errors. so i looked around at my available consumer DVD restoration options, and i bought a license for one DVD restoration program which failed to adequately restore my files. i can't spend much more on this project, and to go to a professional would cost more than the sentimental worth of the videos. the funny thing about the situation though is that i can't *copy* the files off the disc without getting read errors, yet i can *open* them individually in winamp and they play fine for the most part--eventually the video hangs, but if i rewind it a few seconds and let it play from there the rest of the video plays normally. so, i inquire: [bold]unless someone knows of a better solution for getting these videos off the disc[/b], is there a program i can use to live record winamp's video player screen? kinda like using audacity to record the sound card's audio output, i'm looking for a program that would allow me to record winamp's video output (in other words, a program that can be made to record just winamp's output--not the entire computer screen). i'd really appreciate any help. thanks
i have 'isobuster,' and unless i did something wrong in using it, it did not even recognize the data on the cd. so then i tried arrowkey's 'cd/dvd diagnostic' and it looked like it might work. it recognized all the data but the evaluation version was crippleware. using it, i had no way of knowing if the video files could be successfully extracted from the disc--even though they offer a money-back guarantee concerning data recovery, from past experience i've found that companies typically do not make it easy to actually GET your money back under such provisions--and the fine print pretty much affirms this. a license costs $50. lastly i tried 'cd roller.' it recognized all the data on the disc, but the program is also crippleware. i don't know if it would successfully retrieve the data from the disc, but i tried running a readability test on the disc and the program eventually froze. so i don't have much faith in it. license is $30. 'cd/dvd diagnostic' looked the most promising of all potential solutions, seeing as to how it recognized the data, completed the readability test, and the creators' guarantee of success, but at $50 it's a lot more than i'd like to spend considering what i've spent on resolving this problem already.
