PROBLEM: Disc 5 of six-DVD boxset, (2020) Taken (miniseries, 2002)

[hollowman]

It's the six-DVD boxset, (2020 issue) of Taken (miniseries, 2002)

All the DVDs have a dark purple tone on the playing surface (like DVD-R ???).

Got the set from the local public library. All discs play fine, but Disc five which is (mostly) unplayable on multiple computers.

In Linux Celluloid, the DVD refuses to play at all. In VLC, I can get about 12 minutes in and then the player crashes.
Multiple laptops and PCs, all late model, and one from 2010 ... same issue.

Looked at the surface -- it looks clean and unscratched. Wiped it with soft DVD cloth. No difference.
Tried to do a Scan Disc (surface scan) with Nero Disc Speed 2000. Nero crashes.
Tried to rip using DVD-Fab, and DVD-Fab crashed!

I don't have a stand-alone DVD player to test on older (dedicated) CD/DVD playback devices.

Any way to read from this DVD?

[october262]

It's the six-DVD boxset, (2020 issue) of Taken (miniseries, 2002)

All the DVDs have a dark purple tone on the playing surface (like DVD-R ???).

Got the set from the local public library. All discs play fine, but Disc five which is (mostly) unplayable on multiple computers.

In Linux Celluloid, the DVD refuses to play at all. In VLC, I can get about 12 minutes in and then the player crashes.
Multiple laptops and PCs, all late model, and one from 2010 ... same issue.

Looked at the surface -- it looks clean and unscratched. Wiped it with soft DVD cloth. No difference.
Tried to do a Scan Disc (surface scan) with Nero Disc Speed 2000. Nero crashes.
Tried to rip using DVD-Fab, and DVD-Fab crashed!

I don't have a stand-alone DVD player to test on older (dedicated) CD/DVD playback devices.

Any way to read from this DVD?

there's 2 other older programs you cand try 1 - dvddecrypter 2- dvdshrink

[aedipuss]

LOL. someone copied the discs and kept the originals. and not well. nothing you can do with a pirate non working copy.

[davexnet]

Is this disk encrypted or clear ?

[hollowman]

Is this disk encrypted or clear ?

Copyright? The case notes copyright protection. But they all do and I can play and rip and scan them as the others.
NOTE: I don't care about ripping DVDs. Too much work. I found the same program material on Odysee, Rumble, Bitchute.

[cholla]

Since they are from a library they should be encrypted.

You could try IsoPuzzle but you need a decrypter for it to work.
Like DVDFab PassKey Lite it is freeware.

IsoPuzzle can't always finish but if it does you should have an .ISO you can mount in a virtual drive.
Or play in a media player that will play .ISOs.

IsoPuzzle also allows you to move the DVD to different drives to work on the same .iso.
This allows you to take advantage of the different reading capabilities of different drives.
You can even take the files to different computers.
It can take a long time to finish a bad DVD.
Some DVDS it can't finish.
Then it was a waste of time.

[Ai Haibara]

LOL. someone copied the discs and kept the originals. and not well. nothing you can do with a pirate non working copy.

Since they are from a library they should be encrypted.

Perhaps the library copied the discs themselves and put the duplicates in the box to keep the original discs safe?

hollowman - Perhaps, see if a friend has a working stand-alone DVD player to test. Stand-alone DVD players do tend to be cheap these days, though...