| Rich Freeman on 1 Nov 2014 09:59:03 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Ripping a scratched DVD |
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Amul Shah <amul@amulz.com> wrote: > My niece scratched her copy of Frozen and all I have at my cousins > place is Windows and Mac OS X. I tried handbrake and disk utility > (Mac equivalent of gparted), but both failed out with i/o errors. Has > anyone ever done this? What do you mean by, "rip?" Do you want to get another DVD out of this, playable in a standard DVD player? Or, are you trying to end up with just a video file playable on a PC, or maybe on a DVD player that can handle such things? If the latter, honestly there are probably far easier ways to obtain this than trying to ripping a bad DVD, not that I would know, but rumor has it that there are these websites where you can download such things... I wouldn't really recommend using DD for any of this, you really need libdvdcss, and you might need software designed to thwart the various countermeasures manufacturers have been employing. It wouldn't hurt to start with an actual working disk. When you start stacking hacked-up disk sectors on top of a disk that isn't really readable to begin with, it isn't going to be fun to deal with. You might consider a DVD repair kit if you have one. -- Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug