Method for the recovery of a damaged table of contents in an optical disc

A method for generating a recovered table of contents (TOC) for an optical disc having an original TOC and a predetermined file system, the method comprising iteratively performing the following steps:

• a) selecting a recovering session on the optical disc;
• b) determining a recovering session starting location corresponding to a first SRR starting location in the recovering session;
• c) determining if the recovering session is a closed session;
• and
• if the recovering session is a closed session,
• d) determining a data size of the recovering session;
• e) calculating a next session starting location corresponding to a first SRR starting location in a next session immediately following the recovering session by adding the data size of the recovering session, a temp-leadout size of the recovering session, and a temp-leadin size of the next session to the recovering session starting location;
• f) constructing the recovered TOC by including information of the recovering session and the next session starting location;
• and
• g) selecting the next session as the recovering session and determining the next session starting location as the recovering session starting location of the recovering session for a next iteration.