You can create a backup to your hard drive but the legality varies from country to country and whether the process breaks encryption for copy protection on the DVD.
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| Amateur A2M Fan Member  387 Posts 3/10 |  Posted - Jan 30 2019 : 11:39AMI have one DVD that happens to contain my all time favorite pornography ever! It is a pro-am release from Zack Miles from DirtyDirector.com. It was the video titled "Missy Teeny Tiny Buttfuck." I've read about it and ordered it very long ago. The material on this DVD is priceless to me! Missy is just gorgeous and is absolutely loving the pure anal filth that takes place for it's run time. Quite a few years ago someone stole the masters of the footage from Zack so it has not been available since. I purchased an extra copy of the disc. The first one stopped working after a while. The second copy seemed to have issues from the start but would usually play after some difficulty. Now unfortunately neither seem to work after a certain point. I hqve contqcted dirtydirector.com and tjat title is no longer available in any format. Does anyone know someone who specializes in obtaining footage from damaged discs? I am hopeful that between the multiple copies I have of this disc all the video could somehow be preserved. I would imagine with the right hardware and software it would be possible. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much in advance. Topic Moved by - Flash on Jan 30 2019 [Link] |
| AngryPirate Senior Member 3210 Posts 8/17 | Posted - Jan 30 2019 : 5:16PM You can create a backup to your hard drive but the legality varies from country to country and whether the process breaks encryption for copy protection on the DVD. [Link] |
| lex von v Senior Member 2511 Posts 12/12 | Posted - Jan 30 2019 : 7:22PM It's definitely possible to "repair" a disc by using two (or more) somewhat intact copies DVD, with specialized tools. Under Linux for example, there is a program called "ddrescue". You call it like this ddrescue /dev/dvd file.iso log which reads the DVD into file.iso, and stores the report about what could be read and what not in the file "log" then you switch out the DVDs, and restart the same program, it will check the "log" file and read only what could not be read at the first try Repeat this process until all sectors have been read. If a few KB are missing, you might see some graphic glitch, but nothing too serious. Of course, if we are talking about MB missing, the problem gets more severe. Different DVD drive models also help. I have a Blu-ray drive and two different DVD drives, all combined they can read basically everything (up to a point where there's no hope) [Link] |
| AngryPirate Senior Member 3210 Posts 8/17 | Posted - Jan 30 2019 : 8:16PM [Link] |
| Simple Simon Senior Member 12302 Posts 2/15 | Posted - Jan 31 2019 : 3:32AM Can i ask what the most effective drive for reading scratched discs is? Are Blu Ray players more effective than DVD players? [Link] |
| Amateur A2M Fan Member 387 Posts 3/10 | Posted - Feb 1 2019 : 8:49AM [Link] |
| lex von v Senior Member 2511 Posts 12/12 | Posted - Feb 2 2019 : 4:32AM I can only speak from personal experience: the drives I have access to are: ASUS BC-12D1ST Blu-ray drive TSSTcop CDDVDW SH-224DB DVD-RW drive LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM DVD-RW drive ASUS DRW-22B2S DVD-RW drive The Blu-ray drive reads good, but isn't the fastest. The TSSTcorp (which is sold as Samsung) is the fastest of the batch, and does also read almost anything The LG one reads good with decent speed, but with some DVDs it directly skips over defective sectors returning all zeroes (without bringing up an error)... That's the reason I always verify the video afterwards with a video benchmark tool, so I know if there were some read errors, I will re-do the disc in another drive. I'd say about 50/50 that the errors are here to stay (that's where I check all different drives), but often times cleaning the disc with a soft cloth/cotton (and nothing else) will do the trick. The ASUS DVD drive (not the BD) is an old one that has trouble reading some DVDs at all, but I'm not sure if that's because the laser pickup is somewhat dirty (i.e. a problem of this specifc drive), so your mileage may vary. One DVD i could not read successfully I was able to read without problems with a LiteOn DVD drive from work... [Link] |
| Simple Simon Senior Member 12302 Posts 2/15 | Posted - Feb 2 2019 : 6:22PM But it's interesting that scratched DVD's won't play on one player but will on another, and vice versa. [Link] |
| lex von v Senior Member 2511 Posts 12/12 | Posted - Feb 4 2019 : 12:48PM There are of course DVDs with a) scratches that are too bad to recover, but also b) DVDs where no scratches are visible, but every player brings an error at the same position. I reckon this is a wrongly mastered DVD (i.e. the master has a scratch or some damage on this position), which then gets replicated without any visible scratches. Those errors sometimes occur on the layer transition (often visible when it's right in the middle of the movie). In the early days seamless play over two layers was something which required special care on the authoring stage; I guess this is a somewhat lost art. And the most fatal error (except for a total damage): one layer plays, but the second layer won't. This is mostly due to the glue that keeps both layers together isn't up to the job: if it is not sealed properly, the glue with time may become intransparent, so the laser will not be able to focus on the layer below. My "Lex the Impaler 1" DVD has such an error (that's also the reason I'm looking for a replacement, but - being the collector that I am - I'm looking for a first- edition (still under Evil Empire, not the Jules Jordan Video re-release). Times are hard for DVD collectors. [Link] |
| snufish Member 580 Posts 4/14 | Posted - Aug 16 2020 : 1:14PM maybe sony has a better laser. Edited by - snufish on 8/16/2020 1:16:43 PM [Link] |
| Simple Simon Senior Member 12302 Posts 2/15 | Posted - Aug 17 2020 : 12:28AM Funnily, I bought an old DVD player called OLIN for $10 from a thrift store, and it played a scratched disc that my regular DVD player wouldn't. [Link] |
| Simple Simon Senior Member 12302 Posts 2/15 | Posted - Sep 26 2020 : 12:27AM [Link] |
| Simple Simon Senior Member 12302 Posts 2/15 | Posted - Sep 26 2020 : 2:47AM (DVD Player that can play scratched DVD's? ) [Link] |
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