Bluray recover

[Christopher2222]

I generally watch bluray movies on my bluray player in my computer - no problems. However this one bluray I bought looks like it was resurfaced or something - looks very clean no scratches, but the drive starts to read it and it keeps reading and spinning making a bit of noise then more spinning but just doesn't seem to recognize the bluray disc.

Is there anyway I can recover it?

It seems like I need to do some lower command level trickery or something. Like maybe use Linux with ddrescue or maybe use unstoppable copier, maybe ISO puzzle or something like that. All I need to do is to be able to read the disc, or somehow get the information to a readable disc.

Any ideas? Or is that bluray disc dead?

[Sharc]

Does the disc play on the standalone player and only fails when played on PC? Blu-ray discs need to be decrypted for playback on PC.

[Christopher2222]

No go on a standalone player. This is a bluray movie from 2012. I've had no problems with other newer bluray movies.
Oh, on closer inspection I do find some scratches and there is one on the center of the disc which has probably corrupted the recognition of it .. damn!

I tried applying pledge, but didn't work. Pledge has only ever worked once for me on a bluray disc, but that was on a star trek discovery disc that was having problems, and that's a much newer disc, almost pristine condition.

I thought maybe I could force copy it to an ISO or something and get it to work that way but I can't even get the drive to stop flashing. It just seems to be stuck in "seek" mode or something.

[Sharc]

You may want to try ISOBuster ....
https://www.videohelp.com/software/ISOBuster

[CDK]

If this is because of some scratches you can try to wash your disc carefully with a soap. After this rip it as fast as possible (but may be you will need to decrypt it).

[dellsam34]

It could be disc rot, While I was backing up my Blu-ray collection, several discs actually did not play at all, eventhough they are in pristine condition.