Please someone help...........!

1. About a year ago, I got two DVDRs of stuff that I really wanted. I
played them on my DVD player, and they both started skipping about half
way through, and then wouldn't play any more. I assumed it was the
player, so I played them on my PC's DVD player, and the same happened.
Tried them on a laptop's DVD player, same happened. So I then assumed
it was the discs.
2. Three months ago, I got five DVDRs of stuff that I really wanted.
Each of them played about half way through, and then skipped like mad,
and then wouldn't play any further into the disc. Same problem. Tried
all the players, same problem. Assumed I was just terribly unlucky
with the discs.
3. Last week the same happened with four more DVDRs. Tried them, and
all the previous ones in a new laptop, and the same thing happened.

So.... I've always assumed that with so many players, the discs must
be at fault. But then it occurred to me, what are the odds of almost
every DVDR that I lay my hands on, having the same fault, *at the same
part of the disc* ??? The discs are not all from the same person.

I've tried salvaging the material off the DVDRs using a variety of
different software packages. They all read about the first half of the
disc, and then cannot read any further. I've tried DVD Decrypter.
I've tried Bad Copy Pro. I've tried SmartRipper. I've tried a lot
more I can't remember the names of.

If anyone could offer the slightest bit of help with this I would
greatly appreciate it. I really am at my wits end with this stuff.

Thanks

Brian McGee
http://www.brianmcgee.com
http://www.mineallmine.net

phasetwo@gmail.com wrote:
Do THREE things:

1. If there is a sticky label on the DVDR, REMOVE IT! It will take
quite a bit of soap/water and/or "goo-be-gone," but get everything off
INCLUDING THE GLUE.

2. Try copying the files onto your hard drive after the label has been
removed completely.

3. If #2 fails, then try the following program. It works very well in
my hands:

<http://www.elpros.si/CDCheck/>

Good luck.

HTH,

-Junior

Sounds like whoever created the DVDs for you, messed them up - especially if
they wont play on anything correctly.

Depending on what the "stuff" is, can't you just get it again?

If you know the person who made them for you very well - perhaps you could
supply a HDD to them and they could give you the files on that, then you
could try burning them yourself






<phasetwo@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Oh unclejr, THANK YOU!

I've just checked and 100% of the ones that *don't* play, *do* have
sticky labels, and 100% of those that *do* play, *don't* have sticky
labels!

WOW. I hope this is it, I knew it just couldn't be the discs. Without
going into the details, I cannot acquire further copies of these discs,
so all I have are the discs I now posess.

Thank you. I will try this and let you know. It will probably be next
week before I get to it, but again THANK YOU ! :-)

Brian (thankful!)
http://www.mineallmine.net
http://www.brianmcgee.com



unclejr wrote:

phasetwo@gmail.com wrote:
You are quite welcome. You can thank me even more by not top-posting
anymore, okay?

-Junior

no idea why top-posting is still an issue to people - who does it harm and
why?

"unclejr" <watsona@kenyon.edu> wrote in message
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take real care removing labels - they are stuck to the written surface of
the discs and while I am sure they will be removable eventually, the only
time I have ever tried to do so, damaged the discs irreparably


<phasetwo@gmail.com> wrote in message
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mindesign wrote:
conversation.

of normal

the natural flow

It stops

HTH,

-Junior

far as I can tell, all it does is force people to have to scroll down beyond
a conversation they're already having, just to get to the latest response -
seems inefficient, but who cares.......



"unclejr" <watsona@kenyon.edu> wrote in message
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Nonsense.

Mindless etiquette.

"unclejr" <watsona@kenyon.edu> wrote in message
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Nonsense.

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:09:15 -0800, "Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote:

If you are always able to follow a topic from the beginning and never miss
any posts, then top posting may appear to be fine. If you catch something
in the middle (say after doing a Goolge search, if your news server misses
posts or your boss forwards you a long email conversation and asks you to
deal with the issue) then top posting is a pain. It is much easier to skim
past quoted text you have already read in a bottom posted message
(especially with reasonable snipage) than it is to scroll down to the
bottom, read, scroll up a bit, read down, scroll up some more, read down,
etc until you get to the top in a top posted message.

Also, top posting makes it difficult to reply to anything on a point by
point bases, and if there are multiple people quoted, it is not
necessarily clear where top posted comments are directed.

I think everyone who uses the net can struggle through these days without
any delays to understanding or difficulty


but you make it clear as to the reasons why

personally, I don't care either way, but do find bottom-posts annoying when
unnecessary


"Leonard" <no@e.mail> wrote in message
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In article <K_gyf.16$k6.393@nasal.pacific.net.au>, "mindesign" <seriph_I_SAID_NO_BLOODY_SPAM@consultant.com> wrote:
plastick glued together. Where as cdr's have the written surface barely below
the top surface of the disk protected by a simple sprayed on coating.

aaaaaaah ok - thanks for the clarification - it was indeed CD-Rs that gave
me grief once or twice

Steve

"GMAN" <glenzabr@xmission.com> wrote in message
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In article <DF2zf.208$k6.1361@nasal.pacific.net.au>, "mindesign" <seriph_I_SAID_NO_BLOODY_SPAM@consultant.com> wrote:
tired as hell poor mans description . Go to one of the cd or dvd web sites and
get the techinical info with pictures.

In article <yZgyf.15$k6.410@nasal.pacific.net.au>, mindesign
<seriph_I_SAID_NO_BLOODY_SPAM@consultant.com> wrote:

..esrever eht ton dna egassem a ot ylper a daer yllamron ew esuaceB
..drawkcab sgniht daer ot gniyrt ekil tol a s'tI



--
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

In article <K_gyf.16$k6.393@nasal.pacific.net.au>, mindesign
<seriph_I_SAID_NO_BLOODY_SPAM@consultant.com> wrote:

Absolutely.

This is particulary true of disks that are shiny - eg the ones
without a top coating layer that has a manufacturers brand name.
Those have a good enough surface you can write on them with a magic
marker

On the silver disks you will often peel the information layer off
with the label. And a magic marker will often damage the date on
those disks too.

Bill
--
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

I have to say that I had no trouble reading your simile below. I do
admit, however, that it would be fairly hard to type this reply in
reverse. I don't have a tool that I am aware of to automate the
process, and I'm too lazy to write one now :-)

It would be well, BTW, to recall that before various cultures settled
on writing from left to right or from right to left exclusively, many
wrote in boustrophedon. That is, each line was written in the opposite
direction from the preceding line. This saved the enormous effort
(analogous to reading top posts in that respect) of moving your hand to
the other end of the line before writing (or carving, or whatever...)
the new line.

Gino

On 1/18/2006, Bill Vermillion managed to type:

--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")

In article <mn.9ac37d61b0965163.1980@nobody.invalid>, Gene E.
Bloch <hamburger@NOT_SPAM.invalid> wrote:

Unix filters are truly amazing with what you can do. If you can
read it easily then you probably have no problems with Leonardo's
Codex. The program I have is called 'rev' and all you do is
place a ( anywhere in the middle of a paragraph}, then type
a ! and a closing ), the cursor goes to the bottom and you type the
program you are going to pipe the paragraph you just market into.

It makes performing what would be tedious and/or bizarre tasks
quite easy. As I can do with your first paragraph like this:

Unix is the best computer game I've ever owned :-)

Some dot-matrix computer printers worked that way. It saved the
time of returning the print-head to the right side of carriage.


--
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

On 1/21/2006, Bill Vermillion managed to type:
Not at all. Leonardo also 1) wrote the *letters* in mirror image, and
2) had lousy handwriting.

Once I was standing outside an art store that had a menorah with a word
in Hebrew written in stencil-like letters. It was, however, facing into
the store. I had to go inside to read it (it said 'shalom'). If it had
been English I could have read it effortlessly without having to
correct its orientation, but I am nowhere near as familiar to the bone
with Hebrew writing as with English. We're talking fractions of a
percent here...

I don't have Unix or Linux on this computer. I also had no trouble
reading your respelling of my text, even though you chose to shout at
me :-)

This is not at all the same thing. Many or most dot matrix printers,
including inkjets, do indeed pass from right to left on alternate
lines, but what they write (or paint, in a sense) is in normal
left-to-right order.

The people who wrote in boustrophedon wrote alternate lines backwards,
srettel eht taht tpecxe ,siht ekil daer dlouw enil dnoces eht taht os
would be reversed too.

My spell checker did not like that line. I should install a rekcehc
lleps, I guess.

Gino

<SNIP>

--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")