When marwin1 said movie was pixelating and skipping after 80 minutes, wasn't they meaning the original disc? Because all attempts failed to copy. If I read that right then they have a problem with the original. You can try another drive to read the disc or even another computer if you have one. Some drives will read problem disc better than others. I used AnyDVD to back mine up, been a while though.
Originally posted by TreePro: When marwin1 said movie was pixelating and skipping after 80 minutes, wasn't they meaning the original disc? Because all attempts failed to copy. If I read that right then they have a problem with the original. You can try another drive to read the disc or even another computer if you have one. Some drives will read problem disc better than others. I used AnyDVD to back mine up, been a while though.
That is the correct answer his original disc is the problem. AnyDVD/CloneDVD/DVD-RB or DVDFab should do the trick otherwise. I don't use programs from the mid-evil times. :)
You can try ripit4me if you can find it. It is a real old app but it is great at reading bad disks. You probably have what is called a 'bad pressing'. Ripit4me uses an alternate way to read the files by building its own directory. This ignores considerable surface damage and bad pressings. Most copy protection schemes screw with that so it works well on many modern types of protection but not all. Because this was so effective, the media blew this one off the market in no time.
I use it as a last ditch effort before I grind the disk. With a bad pressing, the foil under the surface is bad, grinding is a waist of time.
A warning, don't let it fix anything. It will see things as errors that may or may not be errors. Do let it run fixvts which you will need, plus another dinosaur decrypt. Decrypt is the 'father' of imgburn. It can use an alternate directory imgburn can't.
