Is anybody having any experience with Unclosed DVD Session? I received
couple DVD disks in mail with some Video written with Samsung VCR/DVD writer
but both DVD disks are having unclosed sessions. So the disks can not be
officially recognized in DVD player or on my computer. Although I was able
to make a copy of these disks using Nero = disk image. I know that I need
to find a way to close the sessions on both DVDs but these disks were
written on another device, actually in another country.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Just D.

"Just D" wrote in message
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Is anybody having any experience with Unclosed DVD Session? I received
couple DVD disks in mail with some Video written with Samsung VCR/DVD
writer but both DVD disks are having unclosed sessions. So the disks can
not be officially recognized in DVD player or on my computer. Although I
was able to make a copy of these disks using Nero = disk image. I know
that I need to find a way to close the sessions on both DVDs but these
disks were written on another device, actually in another country.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Just D.



You could try IsoBuster to extract the files you want (contents of VIDEO_TS
folder) to your hard disk and then burn a new disc selecting DVD video in
Nero (not data)

"Just D" wrote in message


Is anybody having any experience with Unclosed DVD
Session?

By accident.

I received couple DVD disks in mail with some
Video written with Samsung VCR/DVD writer but both DVD
disks are having unclosed sessions.So the disks can not
be officially recognized in DVD player or on my computer.

Been there, done that.

Although I was able to make a copy of these disks using
Nero = disk image. I know that I need to find a way to
close the sessions on both DVDs but these disks were
written on another device, actually in another country.

I've closed audio CDs with the burning software on my PC with good results.
Basically, you open up your burning software and check the status of the
disc. The software says its open, and provides an option for closing it.
True of at least Nero and EasyCD.

Same basic tactic hasn't worked for DVDs.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Try the strategy above.

I've also tried to close open DVDs with a different stand-alone DVD
recorder, even just a different model from the same basic manufacturer.

No-go, but worth a try.

Try this google search:

close unfinalized dvd

"Arny Krueger"

Is anybody having any experience with Unclosed DVD Session?

By accident.

My mom did that when she wrote two disks, she didn't know and nobody
explained her how to do that correctly, also age and some other problems. I
was so far to control it. So I got this gift and I'm trying to recover these
disks now.

I've closed audio CDs with the burning software on my PC with good
results. Basically, you open up your burning software and check the status
of the disc. The software says its open, and provides an option for
closing it. True of at least Nero and EasyCD.

Same basic tactic hasn't worked for DVDs.

Exactly, I tried that yesterday. Nero shows the disk info - the session is
unclosed. That's all I can see, Nero doesn't allow me to close the disks.
When I tried something like that to the CD disk a while ago when the
CD-writing session failed after CD burner died I was able to close the
sessions on another burner and recover the part of the files written on this
CD.

Try this google search:

close unfinalized dvd

Already did that and found how to do that in Linux, but I don't have this
system installed right now. Maybe I should do that because I have the
experience working with Linux and if I have no choice I'd rather do that
than lose these disks.

Thanks,
Just D.

"Stuart"
You could try IsoBuster to extract the files you want (contents of
VIDEO_TS folder) to your hard disk and then burn a new disc selecting DVD
video in Nero (not data)

Thanks, I will try that right now.

Just D.

"Just D" wrote in message

"Arny Krueger"

Is anybody having any experience with Unclosed DVD
Session?

By accident.

My mom did that when she wrote two disks, she didn't know
and nobody explained her how to do that correctly, also
age and some other problems. I was so far to control it.
So I got this gift and I'm trying to recover these disks
now.
I've closed audio CDs with the burning software on my PC
with good results. Basically, you open up your burning
software and check the status of the disc. The software
says its open, and provides an option for closing it.
True of at least Nero and EasyCD. Same basic tactic hasn't worked for
DVDs.

Exactly, I tried that yesterday. Nero shows the disk info
- the session is unclosed. That's all I can see, Nero
doesn't allow me to close the disks. When I tried
something like that to the CD disk a while ago when the
CD-writing session failed after CD burner died I was able
to close the sessions on another burner and recover the
part of the files written on this CD.
Try this google search:

close unfinalized dvd

Already did that and found how to do that in Linux, but I
don't have this system installed right now. Maybe I
should do that because I have the experience working with
Linux and if I have no choice I'd rather do that than
lose these disks.

If you come up with a solution, be sure to post it.

You're obviously dilligent and resourceful, and you have the problem staring
you right in the face.

I solved my problems the boring, old-fashioned way - took them back to the
DVD recorder they were written on and finalized them. Not as easy for you
as ti was for I.

"Arny Krueger"

If you come up with a solution, be sure to post it.

You were absolutely right and ISO Buster did that for $29.95 I had to buy
the full version to get it done, these disks are much more expensive for me.

At least one DVD is already decoded and both files are completely extracted.
It was written in one session and there were only two files - the huge one
with the video/audio data and the small IFO. The second one is more
complicated, it has many sessions but all of them were found one by one and
I'm currently extracting the files from the DVD image.

I could definitely do that from the DVD but it's slower and I don't want to
keep DVD drive running for a few hours for nothing. I'm expecting the second
DVD to be done in 2-3 hours because the app analyzes the files while reading
them using their signatures and their internal formats and it's a very slow
process even on my pretty fast machine.

I'm not expecting any troubles when I recreate a new disk using these files.

Thanks for your help!

Just D.