Posted by Mike Foss on 11/14/42 11:28

"Abe" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:2ft9k19e2ddfaksd9a5sp4ppi9u6m114ii@4ax.com...
> >About a year ago I ripped a DVD using DVD shrink onto a cheap blank
> >DVD. Anyway all was well with this disk until last week when my stand
> >alone player wouldn't play it.
> >Tried playing it on computer using PowerDVD and would only play a few
> >minuets and then freeze up. DVD shrink, DVD decrypter and CD Check all
> >indicated input output errors. OK so I have cheap media that has gone
> >bad.
> >I took the bad disk and ran it through DVDFab Decrypter and it did
> >it's thing without reporting any errors. I checked the files it
> >created with CD Check and it also reported no errors and the RW disk I
> >burned with these files works fine on all my equipment.
> >I wonder if anyone knows what DVDFab Decrypter did that the other
> >programs could not do to recover from this damaged disk?
> Probably has something to do with the read retry settings or ignore
> read error settings.

Almost certainly the latter of those two.

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