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Posted by Mr. Moe on 10/06/21 11:48
On Thu, 18 May 2006 14:47:29 GMT, Wei Xian Sheng <WXS@NotEmail.com>
wrote:
>On 17 May 2006 19:07:49 +0200, whosbest54 <whosbest54@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>In article <sa9l62hno1f9eqt423c9f0paeqe7lkh5sv@4ax.com>,
>>Mr_Moe@Disposable_Records.com says...
>>>
>>>
>>>I recently bought a complete set of Gummi Bears cartoons from a guy on
>>>eBay. They play great, picture is great. I thought I would make a
>>>back-up just in case something happened to the original six discs.
>>>The problem is this.....they wont copy because there's nothing to
>>>copy. You heard me right. I have tried copying them with DVD
>>>Decrypter, DVD Shrink, and Nero 6. Everything comes up as "no disc in
>>>drive". I opened up "My Computer" to look at what files were in there,
>>>and guess what? THERE WAS NO FILES ON THE DISC. Nothing.
>>>Any idea what this is? How can I copy them? What's going on here???
>>>
>>Perhaps the DVD is protected in a way that has the files appear hidden on
>>a PC. Try going into the folder properies for the drive and select view
>>hidden files. Then, you may be able to copy the files to your hard drive
>>and use Decrypter or Shrink from there.
>
>I don't think that was his problem. I too, have run across this. I
>had a set of DVD's that would play fine on a standalone, but on my
>computer it said no media present, error reading TOC, etc -- depending
>on how I tried to read it.
>
>I was new to the DVD field at that time and had to return the DVD's so
>I can't test them further. But, looking back on the problem I suspect
>the TOC was intentionally screwed up to prevent copying. I heard that
>was an early attempt to protect DVD's, but the manufactures had to
>stop doing this because the DVD's didn't comply to the standard DVD
>spec.'s.
>
>-wxs-
>Par files, the Stemcells of Usenet
>If it has tits or tires, you're going to have trouble with it.
Thanks much friends. Yeah, that was my suspicion too.....copy
protection.
I'm gonna try one more thing....run a line from a dvd player, into my
stand-alone recorder. I think I may be able to copy them that way. I
will keep you posted.
Mr. Moe
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