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riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

Problem solved by DVDShrink. Thanks, everyone.

riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

I’m sure you’re more technically knowledgeable than I am b/c most people here are. But I tell you for sure though that my copying the contents of a DVD to PC using File Explorer resulted in an unplayable DVD twice. It’s fixable. I’m bookmarking this in case I forget what a mess this causes and do it again. I’d be interested to know the result if you try it to prove me wrong.

riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

I went to the webpage. It says MKV makes ISO backups, so I remembered wrong. In the forum, somebody said they used DVDShrink to make an ISO. I downloaded DVDShrink and ran its media player, which was able to read the corrupted disk. After playing it in DVDShrink, VLC and Pot Player were able to play it, too. Now the first thing on the screen is the DRM warning, which didn’t come up before. Now the DVD is playable and backed up to PC. If you hadn’t been adamant about MKV backups, I’d still have a problem. So TYVM!

riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

MKV doesn’t get you past DRM anti-copy, i.e. it won’t let you copy a DRM-protected disc into an MKV container, as far as I know.

riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

I don’t think I can rip until the data is again readable.

riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

Everything is set to region 0. Tried the DLL file and got this, “Your input can’t be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL ‘file:///D:/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB’. Check the log for details.” Checked VLC using other files, and it’s fine.

riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

Other discs work in same drive. This happened once before, and I used an app called BurnAware to fix and rip the DVD. Apparently it’s part of DRM meanness. BurnAware isn’t working on this one.

riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

It’s silver. I’ve got 3 optical drives and no standard DVD player.

riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

Thanks. No dots present.

riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

FWIW, the same thing happened a couple of years ago with a more contemporary DVD. At the time, I didn’t know I couldn’t just copy it. After using Windows copy function on it, I couldn’t play it. I found a program called BurnAware that fixed and ripped it. BurnAware isn’t able to recover this disc.

riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

Just tried it and got “Error ‘Scsi error - ILLEGAL REQUEST:ILLEGAL MODE FOR THIS TRACK’…”

riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

Other disc works in same drive.

riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

It played fine before my attempt to copy it.

riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

On closer examination, the performance is from 1993. Discogs shows a 2005 release, and Presto Music seems to be selling a version that says it was released 29th Jul 2013. The back cover of the container I have says copyright 1993. I played it before trying to copy it. VLC is the only app I have that recognized it. Pot Player and Windows Media did not.

riley0 OP , to piracy in Help with DVD problem, please.

Yes, although VLC was the only program able to play it.

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