Video thumbnails on recovery

When evaluating a demo recovery program it is often very difficult to know if the data you require will be recovered by the licenced copy. Recovering DVDs has an added complication as many DVDs fail in a way that they can not be read by standard DVD readers.

The latest version of CnW Recovery has a wizard to recover Mini DVDs from video cameras. The wizard will first examine the disk to see if readable, and then will extract the video chapters, as MPEGs. For commercial reasons, the demo will not save these files to the hard drive, but will display th first few seconds of each chapter to give confidence that data will be recoverable. The licenced version will continue with a routine to recreate all the IFO files and merge the chapters into a standard VOB all within the stanard VIDEO_TS directory structure.

Reconstructing video disk from MPEGs

Recovery programs are very good at recovering MPEGs but these are not typically viewable with a DVD player. To view the files it is necessary to create a VIDEO_TS directory with .IFO and .VOB files. To convert MPEGS into such a structure it is normally necessary to a 3rd part product such as IFOEDIT. IFOEDIT is a very good (free) program, but it is maybe a bit too complex for many users. CnW Recovery software has a built in tool to recreate a video disk from MPEGS, and for many users this is a straight forward simple function. There is also a nice feature in that it is included as part of the free demo of CnW Recovery software.