Is it my drive that's the problem?

[smokies430]

I' my trying to back-up my wife's copy of De Lovely without any luck. I am running DVDDecrypter with AnyDVD running in the background. First, AnyDVD pops up with the msg:

WARNING!

Failed to read DVD!

This could have several reason:

1. DVD Media is dirty
2. DVD Media is damaged
3. Your drive is a region locked RPC2 drive which does not allow reading of
scrambled sectors from a different region
4. Your drive is an RPC2 drive that has not yet been assigned a region.



Then when I start DVDdecrypter it comes up with:

I/O error!

Device [1:0:0]_NEC DVD_RW ND_2510A 2.F7 (D (ATA)

ScsiStatus:0X02
Interpretation: check condition

CDB: 28 00 00 29 14 A6 00 00 01 00
Interpretation: Unrecovered Read Error

Is this a problem with my drive or is it the new encryption methods? Btw, the dvd is brand knew...right out of the box, clean and undamaged.

[lordsmurf]

I've had DVD's "right out of the box" that had no "visible damage" but were screwed nonetheless. Could be wrong, but I doubt this is a new copy protection disc (not familiar with that movie). More likely a bad disc. One of my ROM drives will also reject good discs from time to time (it's getting old and dying).

[smokies430]

I suspect it might be my burner going south on me. I tried 4 or 5 of the dvd's that are kicking around the house and the only one I could do was John Q, and it took 2 tries to get that one. I had no problems until about 2 weeks ago and then suddenly I can't decrypt anything no matter what I use. Time to start price checking a new unit. What's recommended??

[budz]

try using VOB BLANKER to rip the movie then use DVD SHRINK to compress and whatever fav burning program to burn to dvd media.

[smokies430]

I tried VOB Blanker and I must be not using it right because all it does is hang for me. (ctrl-alt-del after 1 or 2 minutes says program not responding) I'll give it another look though after I read some of the guides on here to see how to use it. Thanks for the help.