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Hi all, this is a little long winded but please read on!
A friend of mine has a Canon camcorder that she's used to make family videos with. The camcorder records on to the small DVD discs and she has been using DVD-RW discs.
The camcorder has a couple of recording modes and some of the discs will playback on regular DVD players and the others won't, only on a PC. She wants to make copies of all of them on to normal DVD's for her parents.
I offered to try and help. My Win XP machine doesn't read any of the discs. She has a laptop running Vista HP, so I thought my Win 7 machine would read the discs. I poped one in and Win Media Player didn't play it. So I tried to eject the disc and.....got a Windows message saying it was preparing the disc to be used on other machines!!!
It seems to have erased the disc! There were no windows asking what to do with the disc, no Autorun or anything.
So, is it possible to recover the video at all? And is the only way to capture the video off the disc by playing it back on the camcorder and using the video out to capture on my graphics card? There is no USB or Firewire output off the camcorder.
I'm so gutted! Help!
A friend of mine has a Canon camcorder that she's used to make family videos with. The camcorder records on to the small DVD discs and she has been using DVD-RW discs.
The camcorder has a couple of recording modes and some of the discs will playback on regular DVD players and the others won't, only on a PC. She wants to make copies of all of them on to normal DVD's for her parents.
I offered to try and help. My Win XP machine doesn't read any of the discs. She has a laptop running Vista HP, so I thought my Win 7 machine would read the discs. I poped one in and Win Media Player didn't play it. So I tried to eject the disc and.....got a Windows message saying it was preparing the disc to be used on other machines!!!
It seems to have erased the disc! There were no windows asking what to do with the disc, no Autorun or anything.So, is it possible to recover the video at all? And is the only way to capture the video off the disc by playing it back on the camcorder and using the video out to capture on my graphics card? There is no USB or Firewire output off the camcorder.
I'm so gutted! Help!