[ale] DVD ripping tools & distro of choice?

[Jeff Hubbs]

It doesn't do well at its intended purpose, but there's a Meguair's 
(sp?) product for reconditioning headlight lenses that works great on 
scratched CDs.

On 3/23/10 3:55 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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?
>     (uname -r = 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64)
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