Posted by Paul S. Person on 01/14/08 18:32

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:05:07 -0800, "N. Morrow" <none@none.com> wrote:

>>"Paul S. Person" <psperson@ix.netscom.com.invalid> wrote:
>> I purchased this in October 2007. I was very glad to get it: it
>> contains the only letterboxed version of the movie.
>>
>> I played it at once, of course. So far as I can recall, it played
>> fine.
>>
>> It recently came up for viewing again. Now it stalls and skips
>> starting at 1:17 until 1:18 (on my usual DVD player), making about a
>> minute of the movie unwatchable. (On my secondary DVD player, playback
>> froze at 1:17, which is in the midst of Chapter 17, and Chapter 18
>> would not play at all. On my computer, the situation was similar. The
>> disc is unmarred. The machines were turned off prior to use. This is
>> definitely a disc problem.)
>>
>> This applies solely to the letterboxed version. I have never tried the
>> fullscreen version (the movie disc is two-sided), but the fullscreen
>> side does have a nasty-looking scratch on it.
>>
>> Is this a known problem? Was there ever a program intended to fix it?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>
>Some of the software out there that rips DVD's will try to fix errors while
>ripping. A freeware example is DVD Decryptor (not sure if it's still
>available). After ripping, you can try to burn it again on a dual layer DVD
>with your favorite burning software, or a single layer with a program like
>DVD Shrink. I used this method on a DVD that always skipped at the same
>point. The software fixed the problem.

That's interesting and potentially useful (I have, as it happens, two
DVD+R9 discs and a burner attached to my computer -- and such a
program could, I suppose, also be used to produce a DVD+R9 of the DSSL
/Woodstock/ DVD), but by "program" I was thinking more of an MGM
program to replace defective discs.

But thanks for the response. I was beginning to think I was on
"alt.blueray.advocacy" rather than a newsgroup about DVDs.
--
"A portent, therefore, happens not contrary to nature,
but contrary to what we know as nature."

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