rescue unfinalized dvd

Thanks to the recent inclusion of USB ports and computer-to-TV data streaming in modern devices, I’ve discovered it’s a whole lot easier to store every video I’ve ever recorded on a couple hard drives instead of on hundreds and hundreds of DVD-Rs. It’s just more convenient to have it all accessible via one menu screen, and it saves a lot of space. (Also, people are less likely to think you’re crazy if your video archive collection consists of two or three black boxes instead of room-filling shelves and shelves of Sharpie-labeled material). So, this summer, I’ve been undergoing the massive task of transferring every DVD-R I have into the commonly accepted MPEG file format. If progress continues marching forward, sooner or later you’ll have to do this as well. And when you do, it’s inevitable that you’ll run across this problem: you’ll put a disc into the computer and find said computer thinks there’s nothing on it. You know very well there’s something on it — you can see the