- Has anyone ever come across this problem?
- Posted by georgiarose on January 7th, 2005
A friend of mine just brought back from Thailand the DVD's for "Delovely"
and "The Village". He has brought back dozens before and has never had a
problem with his DVD burners reading the discs before. These two titles
however are not detected at all by either of his two burners in both his
computers. It is as if no disc has been inserted. The titles play fine in
both his standalone players. If he puts any other title in his burner, it
is detected and can be read, but these two discs refuse to be detected. He
is running XP Pro and both burners have latest firmware. Any ideas what
might be the problem?
- Posted by NewcastleBoy on January 7th, 2005
I had a problem when an acquaintance burnt a copy of the out of print
sci-fi flick "This Island Earth". My DVD-ROM wouldn't detect the disc
at all, but the reliable Toshiba DVD upstairs did. My old Hitachi
DVD-ROM was super reliable too.
- NewcastleBoy
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:50:37 +1100, "georgiarose"
<georgiarose16@nospam.yahoo.com.au> wrote:
- Posted by Brian on January 7th, 2005
"georgiarose" <georgiarose16@nospam.yahoo.com.au> wrote:
stops the DVD burner from reading it.
There may be a different in zone region.
He may have a faulty DVD disc. It would be worth trying the DVD disc
in a friends DVD player.
Regards Brian
- Posted by georgiarose on January 7th, 2005
"Brian" <bclark@es.co.nz> wrote in message
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The burner does not even read the disc, let alone play it or rip it. As I
said, the disc plays fine in both of his standalone DVD players, it is just
not recognised by either of his DVD drives. BTW - he is running DVD Region
Free, so even if the disc could be read, zoning would not be an issue. It
is also hard to believe that copy protection would be the issue... more like
"play protection".
- Posted by Falco on January 7th, 2005
Copy Protection.
I had a audio cd recently that showed the same characteristics.
It wasn't until I found a program called audiograbber, that I was able to
"read" the disc in a computer.
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- Posted by NightStalker on January 7th, 2005
In article <41de3f4a$0$3855$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
georgiarose16@nospam.yahoo.com.au says...
Could be that your friend has a DVD+ burner, and the pirated DVD has
been burnt onto a DVD-, or of course vice versa....?
--
NightStalker
- Posted by Koenig on January 7th, 2005
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:27:40 GMT, "Falco" <johnyfalco@bigfoot.com>
wrote:
We are talking about a pirate DVD from Thailand - its unlikely to be
copy protection.
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- Posted by Tommyruff on January 7th, 2005
Hi georgiarose,
yes i have encountered a few disks similar to
your problem, i suspect disk errors rather than copy protection . Try latest
version DVD Decrypter 3.5.2.0 which i seem to have the best results for
these problem disks
use these guides http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/guides.htm
clean the disk, rip to the hard disk before copying and or compressing.
I have a dvd rom and a dvd burner...i try both for ripping if 1 spits the
dummy
try other ripping software if Decrypter doesn't work for you.
try these guides on another mate's pc if it doesn't work on yours.
there is no guarantee this will work for you but its worth a try.
Regards Tommyruff
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- Posted by Camper on January 7th, 2005
"georgiarose" <georgiarose16@nospam.yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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You sure they are DVD's and not Vcds or SVCDS? (even if they are he should
still be able to see the file structure in windows explorer).
- Posted by georgiarose on January 8th, 2005
"Tommyruff" <rufftommy.removethis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm sure any ripping application would work if only we could get the disc to
be initially detected by the drive.
- Posted by georgiarose on January 8th, 2005
"Camper" <greentoow@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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Yes - they are definitely DVD-9's. They are not detected by either drive
however so cannot be explored.
- Posted by georgiarose on January 8th, 2005
"Koenig" <trevorgenschbloodysven@aanet.com.au> wrote in message
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Precisely - I cannot see how copy protection could be the issue here. I
don't understand how apparently they will play in any standalone player yet
seemingly cannot be read by a DVD drive.
- Posted by Tommyruff on January 8th, 2005
"georgiarose" <georgiarose16@nospam.yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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DVDrom/burners with different firmware versions...you might get
lucky...failing that...put it in the 2 hard basket and source another dvd of
the same movie from somewhere else.
anyway, let us know how you go if you have success in this problem.
- Posted by Oldus Fartus on January 8th, 2005
georgiarose wrote:
What makes you so convinced? In spite of the printing on the labels
and covers, I have ten DVDs here ex Asia which are single layer, and not
DVD 9. (Catwoman, Hellboy, King Arthur, Suddenly 30, Garfield, AvP,
just to mention a few.)
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Cheers
Oldus Fartus
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Cheers
Oldus Fartus
- Posted by doS on January 8th, 2005
Its the format of the dvd, is it - or +, will his dvd rom do both?
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- Posted by georgiarose on January 9th, 2005
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Yes - both his drives are dual format.
