Posted by Citizen Bob on 11/17/06 10:35

On 16 Nov 2006 10:13:00 -0800, littlejoeflub@yahoo.com wrote:

>
>Impmon wrote:
>> I have a Disney DVD "The Rescuers Down Under" that refuses to play.
>> When I place them in 3 different DVD players, they spend 2-3 minutes
>> trying to start then it stops with no disc message. Normally invalid
>> disc or empty tray would only cause the player to spend a few seconds
>> but not about 3 minutes.
>>
>> When I put them in the PC, nothing happened. I checked the properties
>> on DVD-ROM, it reported a zero byte disc. There is no sign of scratch
>> or damage to the disc but there is a very faint streak sightly darker
>> than the normal gold layer about 1/2 inch from outter edge and spans
>> half way around the circumfrence of the DVD>
>>
>> DSVD rot?
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>
>If my memory isn't faulty didn't early Disney DVDs have problems
>because they weren't being authored to the proper dvd specs? I can't
>remember the titles but even my Apex 600A was having trouble with
>Disney DVDs we bought brand new for my nephew pixelating and freezing
>up and this was also way back about five or six years ago. Since you
>tried it in multiple dvd players I can only assume either the glue
>holding the dvd layers is loosing cohesion or it's just a bad pressing.

Try ripping it to hard disk with an NEC 3550 and IsoBuster. If
successful, you can use VideoReDo to make sure its DVD-compliant and
then re-author it with TDA. Or you can just burn it and see if it
works.



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