Anyone good with vid camera recording/disk formating

[Mr I]

I have some small dvd disks that we recorded much of our honeymoon on from a sony camera (borrowed). thing is they won't play on my laptop it simply doesn't pick up that there is anything on the disk, yet when I check the properties it confirms that there is no free space left.

[Bouncer]

any of this help?

Sony DVD Recorder DVDs won't play elsewhere? :: Free Tech Support :: Ask Dave Taylor!®

[Mr I]

yeah I read that lol, thing is we don't have the original camera lol, it may be that I didn't finalize them (the didsk with the original camera) or format them. The info is on there somewhere though thats whats frustrating. We only just found them again as they been lost for 3 1/2 years. the lady is gonna take them into a photo editing place and failing that go to an electrical store and try the vid cameras, if it works in them like it worked in the original then she'll buy it on ebay

[Turbo3000]

VLC won't open them up?

VideoLAN - VLC media player - Open Source Multimedia Framework and Player

[Shibby]

Any camera specific type shop should be able to open them and do what you need with them.

[mofo]

if you don't finalize them it won't set them in a way that you can play the videos. with the crappy camera we have when you finalize the disk all you can do it watch them and not edit them.

[Turbo3000]

Buy camera with an HDD asap.

[Bouncer]

who uses a camera that records on dvd's anyway?

lol at english people. so fucken behind the times with technology. they still have hardly changed over to high def over there. lol

[Turbo3000]

who uses a camera that records on dvd's anyway?

lol at english people. so fucken behind the times with technology. they still have hardly changed over to high def over there. lol

:thumup:

Who wants to deal with a fucking disc. HDD, SSD, or nothing.

[Bouncer]

its like 1998 in england. lol

[Mr I]

like I said, this was years ago and it was someone elses camera, mine has hard drive.

[Mr I]

VLC won't open them up?

VideoLAN - VLC media player - Open Source Multimedia Framework and Player

so you down load this onto your laptop and then open the program and try opening the disk in the F:drive?

Trying it now but it just seems to be sticking with the disk turning but nothing happening

[Mr I]

great, that required disk formating so just erased everything

[dna9488]

great, that required disk formating so just erased everything

Yea no shit. Whenever you format something, it will clear it

[Turbo3000]

great, that required disk formating so just erased everything

What required disk formatting? If you tried to open it with VLC, and then it stated that you needed to reformat the disc, you should of pressed CANCEL. Reformat equals erase.