Posted by Wei Xian Sheng on 05/18/06 14:47

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-
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