AT Wits End With Error on Disc Ripping

[bhsparks]

Okay, I am a fairly intelligent and PC savvy person. I am fairly new to DVD yechnology and bow to all wisdom. I need someone to help in simple terms, with a problem I have in ripping an episode from Star Trek:Season 2. I have gone thru SmartRipper...CladDVD XP, DVDdecrypter, and vstrip. I am having the most difficult time EVER with an error message that pops up when I'm @ 95% finished. HELP PLEASE!!!

[dlb]

Give details of the error you are getting ?

I quite often get a blue screen with a disk write error to drive c:

anyone have any ideas about it.

[bhsparks]

I get an error concerning a block that can't be read at a certain point...it's the same point on the disk....and very frustrating...

[man_friday]

If you play the disc on a regular player what happens at that point of the disc which produces your errors?

[poonaner]

Is the disc scratched or damaged?
Take a look.

That could be the case and if its not then i dont know what to tell you.

Perhaps you could give us the exact error message.

[SLK001]

Try cleaning that booger off your DVD. Next time, wipe the thing (the booger) on your trousers. You might want to use some window cleaner to remove all the residue that is left on the disk once you pick the thing off.

[bhsparks]

Ok, using DVDdycrypter, I get the following message @ 95% of the rip


"Fail to read Sector............"

"CIR Unrecovered error.

I will attempt to clean the disk and try either SmartRipper of Clad XP

[bhsparks]

Okay, here is another piece of my growing puzzle. After watching the episode on a stand alone and washing the disk twice, I ran it thru SmartRipper. Fine until the last 4% and my error message reads as follow:

"can't read block "367748" (byteposition: 735.496 KB)

Unlocl again NOW and retry.

I tried (3) times to do this and nothing....any help would be appreciated.

[SLK001]

It's got to be a problem with the disk that the reader can't handle. Have you tried it in another DVD-ROM?

Don't laugh, but here's what I do to help a disk read. Put some paste furniture wax on it and polish it up. The wax fills in areas that are slightly scuffed and is invisible to the laser. Look closely at the disk (and I mean real close). There is probably a bad area around the outside rim of the disk.

[MTMR]

It's got to be a problem with the disk that the reader can't handle. Have you tried it in another DVD-ROM?

Don't laugh, but here's what I do to help a disk read. Put some paste furniture wax on it and polish it up. The wax fills in areas that are slightly scuffed and is invisible to the laser. Look closely at the disk (and I mean real close). There is probably a bad area around the outside rim of the disk.

This is actually an interesting idea.

SLK001 - what brand of furniture polish do you use? Is this a good fix for scratched CDRs as well? and how badly do the other chemicals (if any) in that wax affect the plastic on the disc?

[SLK001]

I use TREWAX, but Johnson's Paste Wax also works well.

[sokhapkin]

OK, you're giving the advices how to make the DVD disk readable, but in many cases it's not possible to fix the disk. My question is how to tell to ripping program or to OS to ignore all read errors? In most cases random unreadable blocks will not affect the quality of the ripped/encoded movie!

The read error behavior of some rippers:
DVD2SVCD internal routines - on read error the ripping terminates and DVD2SVCD silently (without any error message!) begins to encode partially ripped movie!

vStrip - prints an error message and terminates the ripping.

SmartRipper - popups abort/retry/ignore window and waits for user interaction. A button like "Ignore all" might make me happy

Does anybody know about a DVD ripping program with "Ignore all read errors" setting?

[wulf109]

DVD Decrypter 3.1 does have an Ignore Read Errrors option. It's in the advanced tab under settings.