TRying to read convert dvd of public domain education films

[dawitis2003]

I bought a old dvd of education films off of ebay.
The disc is considered by xp in my 8 x -/+r drive to be blank but that its full as far as added things to it. No files are listed when i try to view the disc.

On my tvs I have 2 dvd players

One my dvd player with divx-mp4 (i can watch divix files,avi,,mp4 on it wilth out any conversion to dvd/vcd) it plays, but on my cheap dvd player ($30 from walmart) it will not play. I wanted to makea backup of it.(the films are all public domain).

I have never come across this before, a way to block the pc from viewing the files.


I tried isobuster , all i got was a track that was 2k in size. other then that isobuster could not extract the 2k file off of the disc..there is over 2hours of video on this disc, could this 2k file block the whole disc some how? The rest of windows says i basicly have a blank disk. dvddecrypter and dvd shrink say that there is no disc in the driveor it is blank. I wouild think if my tv dvd player which has divix/mpg4 can read there must be a way to get my pc to read it.

Any ideas?

[Baldrick]

have you tried it on another computer?

[mats.hogberg]

If all you want is a backup, try DVDDecrypter: ISO Read, ISO write.

/Mats

[dawitis2003]

I currently only have one working computer, and I all rdy tried dvdecrypter(it says the disc is blank.

[mikiem]

There are a few formats that can be used on a blank disc, and as your divx player is used to looking for non-dvd stuff, it finds it. Unfortunately, that's about the extent of my knowledge.

There is some MAC conversion software out there, plus info on other formats etc. at sites like CDFreaks. There's also formats Roxio & Nero use for drag and drop incremental storage, and without the correct drivers, you won't see anything. There are some CD/DVD media info prog. that might tell you what file system's in use, and check for similar utilitie at roxio, nero, & nti. Perhaps try other prog. that work similar to iso buster -- perhaps something at daemon tools might identify it for you?