Rip DVD with scratch on it with DVD-Decrypter

[aslan]

Some of my oldies now have som scratches and stuff on them, so when I use DVD-decrypter, it just asks me to ignore och try again. If you click on ignore it takes about 5 minutes until the same question pops up again, so it continues like 5 times until it asks me to ignore all warnings. That thakes at least a half an hour.
Because of the scrathes on the DVD DVD-decrupter can't read that sector properly.
So now to my qustion, where on the settings can I make the program to just ignore the warnings from the beginning and says ignore automatically to all warnings from the start?

Anyone knows, or didn't my qustion make any sense...

[Bjs]

Tools > settings > I/O > check "ignore read errors" > ok

But to do so when creating any kind of backup image is flawed ... just a bad idea

[RickA]

Greets,

If you check Cycle Tray After Bad Sectors option it sometimes helps to bring the read speed back up again. Lowering the number of Read Error Retries can help as well.

There is also a program called Dead Disk Doctor (think that is the name of it) which I've read works very well on scuffed up discs. Takes a long time for it to do it's work, but could be worth it if needed.

Cheers,
Rick

[filmboss80]

Have you tried using DVDFabHDDecrypter? I've had some success using this with scratched discs.

[ichido]

I have also had some success with DVD Fab for scratched discs, or as I say someone ice skated on it.

[noki]

"...oldies now have som scratches and stuff on them...

clean 'em with a NON-GEL toothpaste...or Brasso metal polish.

[cal_tony]

Just to add to what was said above, I have found DVDFabHDDecrypter to work much better than its older versions at scratched disks.

Yesterday, I used Dead disk doctor for the first time on a scratched disk. Was quicker than anything else I had ever used and it also seemed to do a better job.

Tony

[orsetto]

I've tried the "toothpaste or Brasso" fixes a couple of times, and all it did was make things worse. It may work for some people, but I think you need to know exactly what you're doing and do it JUST right, or you end up hosing the disc further. Unless the disc is absolutely irreplaceable or you are incredibly constrained for money, you're better off re-buying the DVD (catalog titles go for nothing these days). Or, you could try the software tricks recommended above. They're OK for one or two discs, but situations like the original poster mentions here (many many scratched DVDs) are better served by taking the DVDs to a video store or other business that has a professional DVD/CD polishing/restoration machine. Let them completely buff out all your bad DVDs, and then you can start again from "scratch" (bad pun).

[BoilerUp]

Do you have more than 1 DVD drive and have tried them all? My Pioneer has successfully ripped DVDs that my Lite-Ons and BenQs have choked on.

[aslan]

I do have 2 internal dvd and one external.
I do have a lot of dvd that won't read proberly.
I don't have Brasso in Sweden and don't want to use chemicals on the discs.
Can't find any program called dead disk doctor, at least there are none in the videohelp categories.
Found 3 programs that I will try, IsoBuster, IsoPuzzle and dvddisaster, looks like isobuster got the best score so I'll start there.
It worked with changing the setting in DVD decrypter so thanks for that tip.

[hudsonf]

Dead Disk Doctor http://www.download.com/Dead-Disk-Doctor-Plus/3000-2248_4-10450383.html

[ichido]

I have also had success with toothpaste only once and it ended up doing just the feature movie and my daughter wanted all menus. A Couple other times the disc stopped at different spots , so yes the disc is getting damaged further.

[Freddie Fred]

Scratched discs used to be such a nightmare for specially after my little lad got his mitts all over them. Toothpaste and other weird and wonderful substances simply don't work and end up doing more than good. Repair kits are too hit and miss. Believe me I've tried them all.

Brought some d-skins back from the States and they are perfect. Snap them on to your discs and just leave them on. Can load, play or even burn with them still attached!

Yet to see a shop in the UK sell them but can get them online at www.dskinuk.com

[SCDVD]

If you are able to rip it by ignoring errors, keep in mind that the damaged or missing data that gets ignored will "hurt" the resulting copy. It is a good idea to run your copy through FixVTS to clean up any structural errors that may be there. It won't fix missing video data but it will at least fix most structural errors that may exist.

[aslan]

Thanks for all tips.
Almost 80 Euro for 50 d-skins is little to much for me. But they look great, until they come to Sweden I will hold.

And regarding just skip errors, when you do this on dvd-decrypter, it looks like it fills in the empy spaces with dummies or something, I didn't have no problems yet. The interseting thing is, though I thought there would be much lost because the amount of time it took to decrypt the movie with the error sectors taking most of the time. When I watch the movie I was surprised over how little time in fact there was lost, sometimes you don't even think about it, if you donät know the movie back and fourth.

Soo it works for me now, thanks for all tips

[SLK001]

Well, my experience with scratched discs have shown that DVDDecryptor CAN recover the entire disc, given enough time. I've actually been able to recover a disc that had a 1mm "bump" in the data area. It took over 5 hours to rip, but it completed with NO ERRORS. I don't really like the fact that DVDDecryptor doesn't give you the option to not prompt the user over read errors (it will prompt the user to continue if the number of errors is over the number set in the SETUP). This requires the user to continually monitor the progress of the rip - just shut up and try to recover the disc until I tell you to stop.

I've also had success with both toothpaste and auto polishing compound, topped off with a coat of solid wood wax (carnuba based), so don't tell me that this does "more harm than good".

[Frank-0-Video]

Greetings ....

I've had DVD Decrypter for some time and have appreciated what it does. Now I appreciate it even more.

Just had my first experience using with a bad disc. In this case, it was a rental disc with a small fracture that affected playback of one of the three programs on it. I was absolutely amazed when DVD Decrypter successfully managed to grab off all of the data. Eventually I produced a backup of the original that played to absolute perfection!!!

Of course, not every damaged disc may be recoverable, but at least I have something that could save the day on a few occasions.

[hello_hello]

I've had DVDs which produced read errors from day one, before they had a single scratch. I've got a Bluray disc with a similar problem. It may simply be they weren't pressed/manufactured well and the scratches don't actually have anything to do with it.

If you have multiple drives, my advice would be to keep trying the disc in different drives. I've got a few different model Pioneer drives and a Samsung drive and they all have different success rates when it comes to reading bad discs. Sometimes one Pioneer drive refuses to even acknowledge a disc, while another reads it fine.

There's been a couple of times where two drives won't read a disc, only they won't read different sections of it, so to get the whole disc, I've needed to use one drive to read some of it, then a second drive to read the rest etc, but it's taken quite a few attempts and swapping of drives to get all of it.