Posted by canon paora on 08/07/06 21:30

Phisherman wrote:
> I tried using DVD Decrypter to copy a badly scratched DVD movie. I
> tried various setting such as "aggressive," "Brute Force --> I/O Key
> Exchange,' "Ignore Read Errors," etc. Plus I tried polishing (w/
> Brasso) the DVD which took out most of the scratches. But, DVD
> Decrypter keeps showing an excess of 1000 read errors after 2 hours.
> The DVD will play in my DVD player, but it skips and returns to the
> main menu at a certain spot. I can skip around it using the scene
> selector from the main menu. My question is...
>
> Is there any software that will copy a damaged DVD? I'm not looking
> for anything that will repair the DVD, just copy it (errors and all).
> TIA

I see DVDFab has already been suggested - I had to use a full version
(not the free one) to get all the options.

You could try someone else's reader/writer to extract the files - I
have the occasional bastard dvd that can't be read (without errors) in
one drive but read effortless by another.

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