I'm Amazed at the Power of FixVts

[SCDVD]

I just repaired a DVD with everything wrong with it that you can imagine. The DVD was made by an organization that used a Samjunk DVD recorder and MaxError media. They did some primitive authoring directly on the recorder after recording on the recorder's hard disc. For starters, the recording quality was bad. After trying to read and duplicate it on several drives, it became clear it had a number of unrecoverable errors due to the the bad burn. I finally used DVD Decrypter to copy it by setting it to ignore errors. I succeeded in copying it this way but it skipped 18 bad blocks.

I decided to run it through FixVts to insure that the structure wasn't damaged in the process. As a side note, the menus did not function correctly even before I made a copy with DVD Decrypter. I wasn't expecting to fix the broken menus. There were 18 VTS's each with its own menu button. Of the 18 menu buttons, only the first six worked. I was astonished to find that FixVts in addition to everything else, fixed the link problems with the menu navigation structure. The menu navigation structure now works perfectly! I have attached the FixVts log that shows all of the actions that were performed to fix the bad navigation structure as well as everything else.

It's a crying shame that the dark side is trying to kill this wonderful utility. Their interests are so extremely self-serving that you could almost call it a crime against humanity! How long are we going to put up with this crap?

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[Rich86]

I agree - FixVTS is a terrific tool that has absolutely nothing to do with circumventing digital copy protection. It's strength is cleaning up and throwing out trash, errors and junk from unencrypted video files. But since large entertainment industry organizations seem to have more lawyers and money than the average programming hobbyist on the street, they can threaten anyone they want and the average person backs down rather than expending their life savings fighting over it. Can't really blame them. Think the ACLU will jump in to protect the rights of the average citizen here? And why not?

[buttzilla]

I never heard of this program but i'm gonna check it out. This sounds like a great program and i could use something like this.

[Abond]

the average programming hobbyist on the street

I think jeanl diserve better compliment...

[Rich86]

the average programming hobbyist on the street

I think jeanl diserve better compliment...

That comment most certainly does not speak to the skills of jeanl, which are considerable. It was directed at the large, wealthy corporate organizations who work to intimidate an individual who has done nothing illegal, but is not in a financial position to fight over it. It's the RIAA (fill in your own alternate video oriented 4 letter word or acronym here) holding teenagers and grandmothers at financial gunpoint all over again.

[Abond]

IMO it is not all about money. There is without doubt anger, rage, jealousy that a programmer that offer free software made for fun is better than their paid (and probably very well paid) own staff...