[mythtv-users] DVDs that wont play

[Mike Choy]

Rod Smith wrote:
> On Sunday 07 October 2007 17:11:16 Mike Choy wrote:
>   
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> Thought I would start a thread on some of the DVDs I am starting to have
>> a problem playing (internal player), probably due to copy protection
>>
>> "Curse of the Golden Flower", Region 2 UK -  seems to be a problem
>> related to Arcos copy protection, real dvd players ignore corrupt
>> sectors, but software ones will not and spend all ages trying to do
>> error correction.
>>     
>
> This is a shot-in-the-dark suggestion (I've not tried it), but you might try 
> copying the DVD to your hard disk using the "dd" command and 
> its "conv=noerror" option. For instance:
>
> dd if=/dev/dvd of=dvdimage.iso conv=noerror
>
> This will create a disk-based copy of the DVD. The "conv=noerror" option is 
> supposed to let dd continue with the copy operation in case of errors. It's 
> possible it'll take a while to read the DVD because of the errors, but with 
> any luck your disk-based copy will then be playable. I can make no promises 
> this will work, though; it's conceivable the copy will fail to play.
>
> Depending on where the bad sectors are, it's conceivable that MythDVD's "rip 
> DVD" option will also work. If the bad sectors are in the menus, you should 
> be able to extract the feature track and play it. If the bad sectors are in 
> the feature track, though, I'd expect MythDVD's "rip DVD" function to fail.
>
>   
Thanks Rod
I've taken the dvd back, only thing to do here is to boycott these kinds
of behaviours

Mike C