dvdisaster 0.70.2 review

dvdisaster project provides a margin of safety against data loss on CD and DVD media caused by aging or scratches. dvdisaster crea

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Carsten Gn?rlich

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dvdisaster project provides a margin of safety against data loss on CD and DVD media caused by aging or scratches.

dvdisaster creates error correction codes to compensate read errors which are not correctable in the CD/DVD drive.

dvdisaster tries to read as much data as possible from defective media. Afterwards unreadable sectors are recovered using the previously created error correction code. The maximum error correction capacity is user-selectable.

If you create the error correction code file in time and keep it at a safe place, you have a good chance of recovering the medium contents from typical read errors and to transfer your complete data onto a new medium.

Requirements:
x86 compatible hardware in 32bit mode
an up-to-date CD or DVD drive with ATAPI or SCSI interface
at least a P4 at 2Ghz or comparable processor
a file system without the 2GB size limit for handling DVD images
The gettext library
The iconv library (only for Windows)
The pkgconfig tool
The glib2 library

What's New in This Release:
fixed crash by inappropriate g_free() on Pango layout (thanks to Dmitry for pointing this out)
fixed pngpack decoding failure on big endian machines (thanks again to Dmitry)
fixed type mismatch compiler warning on 64bit archs