Read errors resulting in pixelization.

[mattstan]

Hi,

I ripped a DVD which had a bad scratch on it, I was forced to 'ignore read errors' having tried ripping with 2 different DVD burners -- there were a few hundred read errors in total. This has effected about 20 seconds of a 2 hour film. No big deal. Playing on my PC I get a few pixelizations and a bit of sound distortion for the 20 seconds. But on my standalone player and my TV when I get to the problem area, the DVD freezes and I can't even fast-fwd thru the bad area, I'll be forced to go back to the start and enter a specific time --that being just after the problem area-- to get passed it. Is there some software that can clean this up a bit to help me get thru the problem area without actually editing it out?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks.

[Soopafresh]

You can rip the DVD to regular MPEG2, cut out the bad section with Mpeg2Cut2, then burn a new DVD. A bit of work, but it will "fix" the problem.

[rkr1958]

You can rip the DVD to regular MPEG2, cut out the bad section with Mpeg2Cut2, then burn a new DVD. A bit of work, but it will "fix" the problem.

No need to rip to MPEG2. Why not just load the DVD into TMPGEnc DVDAuthor and use that to cut out the bad section and reauthor.

[mattstan]

Thanks guys, but as I wrote in my post I'm looking for a solution that does not involve editing the bad section out, it's partially watchable can't the streams be somehow 'normalized' so that while not adding unknown bits, the bits are accepted by my standalone DVD player as 'valid' values in the stream and the DVD doesn't freeze? Or should I just edit out the few seconds around where it actually freezes?

Cheers.

[budz]

try ripping the scratched dvd with a different pc. sounds like your pc dvdrom/dvdrw isn't capable of reading scratched discs. you could try ripping with VOBBLANKER.