DVD Gone Bad!

[Spuk0]

A few years ago I purchased a retail motorcycle DVD and after about 1-2yrs. , 1 day I went to pop it into the DVD player and I have had trouble ever since.

Here's the facts...

The DVD seems to be in great condition from what I can tell looking at the surface. I am one of those types that doesn't even like to make a finger print on my DVDs/CDs. I can't find any scratches or markings and it has not been exposed to any liquids etc.

It worked fine when I bought it but now certain chapters will not play or just lock up. I only viewed it maybe a handful of times but now I am unable to. I can load to the menu and watch certain chapters but not the entire DVD.

I know that it has not been exposed to any extremem heat or sunlight or the cold.

It has however been transported in a vehicle during winter time exposed to moderate drop in temperature for maybe a day or so when I brought it over to a friends house.

The DVD always went back into the case.

I have watched it before on my PC and home DVD player and a friends older DVD player.

Now its the same problem for every player I have.

So now I'm stumped and can't figure out why there is a problem?

Is it possible that even slight changes in temperature or a DVD laser itself to cause damage to the disc?

What is the best software I can use to help recover this $30 DVD to make a good copy?

Thanks,

[redwudz]

You could try DVDDecrypter and see it it can rip it. You can set it to ignore errors and retry. This may take a while. The next tool that comes to mind is ISOBuster if Decrypter fails.

Either of these programs may be able to recover most of the video. But you may not recover it all. Trying a different DVD reader may help also.

[slacker]

You are finding out first hand how unreliable dvd media really is. If you carefully review all of the hype & advertising that went into the "rollout" of this media worldwide, and then compare THAT to the facts, we could probably collectively file, and win, a class action suit and recover billions. We are all victims of a royal con job. No kidding! Hmmm... Maybe it's time!

[Eyedoctor2]

I have found that https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=DVDFab_Decrypter works great for damaged DVD recovery.

It is a free program to boot