Saving the Video RAM stream.
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I'm a questioner. Not a programmer with the level of expertise generally found here. Please excuse me being here. I'm here only to ask. The problem is copying scratched dvd's. Commercial software won't do it because of problems 'reading' the dvd. But these dvd's will play, either on the computer or on a dvd player. They may have some 'artifacts' - splotches of raw colour, maybe, or periods of blank darkness. Manifestations of the bad condition they are in. But they play. Video RAM gets refreshed. A movie is played. It seems it should be possible to simply save the contents of video RAM and save that as a file. And then play that file back into video RAM to reproduce the movie. But no one seems to know how to do it and no one seems to know of any software that currently does this. Though some say it is the way that dvd's were originally copied back in the dark ages. I am hoping this forum can shed some light on the subject. regards, abrogard. :)
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I'm a questioner. Not a programmer with the level of expertise generally found here. Please excuse me being here. I'm here only to ask. The problem is copying scratched dvd's. Commercial software won't do it because of problems 'reading' the dvd. But these dvd's will play, either on the computer or on a dvd player. They may have some 'artifacts' - splotches of raw colour, maybe, or periods of blank darkness. Manifestations of the bad condition they are in. But they play. Video RAM gets refreshed. A movie is played. It seems it should be possible to simply save the contents of video RAM and save that as a file. And then play that file back into video RAM to reproduce the movie. But no one seems to know how to do it and no one seems to know of any software that currently does this. Though some say it is the way that dvd's were originally copied back in the dark ages. I am hoping this forum can shed some light on the subject. regards, abrogard. :)
If I understood you right, you need a program that reads bad or damaged disks. BadCopy can read whole disk and replace damaged sectors with random data. So when you will play this video you'll see some artifacts, but this isn't critical if disk has a few damaged sectors. Video from the screen can be captured by SnagIt or Corel Capture,.. not sure about second program