[ale] DVD ripping tools & distro of choice?

[Greg Clifton]

Scott, I have heard that a light coat of mayonnaise and wipe down of the
disk can allow recovery of scratched DVDs (or at least CDs). Supposedly the
optical characteristics of the oil+egg yolk+vinegar is pretty similar to the
plastic of the CD.
GC


On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 03/23/2010 09:26 AM, Preston Boyington wrote:
> > Richard Bronosky wrote:
> >> Because the movie studios are actively breaking all the efforts made
> >> toward DVD ripping, the rippers must be actively maintained. For that
> >> reason, I prefer to pay someone to fight the fight for me. I use
> >> http://ripitapp.com/ because it rips the new technologies far earlier
> >> than other apps.
> >>
> >
> > I'm a big fan of DVDFab.  They offer a free 'DVD Decrypter' as a
> > download.  Basically I use it to pull the info to hard drive and that is
> > what I use as the source for Handbrake.
> >
> Needs Windows, I don't do windows. So far I've had no problem with
> ddrescue. It's been able to retrieve scratched DVDs, although I have 1st
> season of House MD that has never seen the light of day except to be
> ripped before my Seagate issues, I've had to rerip it again, but was
> uable to complete. It seems that when I removed it during the 1st
> ripping the DVD drawer had started closing causing it to scratch it,
> although at the time I didn't realizes how bad. This time however it
> took 4 hours to only get half of the DVD and at one point 100% CPU and
> all four temp monitors hit the red zone. I guess I have a new coaster
> and Hollywood gets more tax money.
>
> By the way I've noticed that the problems with DVD/CD eject seems to
> have returned and it's worse now. I now wait a full 30 seconds before
> removing the disk from the drawer. I have had it after eject pausing for
> 15 sec and then closing on its own. Possessed players? Both the player
> and burner eventually will do it. There was a fix in the past which I
> was able to get to work, but I can't seem to find it now, any clues?
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