![]() ![]() I just wish Sony would use their genius for good instead of evil.The latest release of the VLC media player is a huge hit, racking up nearly 8.6 million downloads since the 1.0 release last week, according to the makers of the software VideoLAN. This is truly some awe inspiring tech I am honestly impressed by their ability to pull this off, to target files so specifically in such a narrow use case. Look at the back of the disc, it’s beautiful and shiny, no blemishes, no indication that anything would be wrong at all. However, if I try to copy the VOB files, I/O errors start blowing up all over the place. I’m guessing this is part of the 300M that ddrescue was able to get–along with the IFO and BUP files which I seem to be able to access. The thing is, there is part of the DVD designed for PCs, so it mounts on my Linux and BSD boxes perfectly and I can access all the Windows and Mac files. ![]() It just amazes me that the disc can work perfectly in the DVD player and fail so hard in the DVD drive. How am I a criminal for that?!? By wanting to find a pirated copy of this DVDFab DVD Copy tool and see if it works under Wine with this ARccOS junk, that’s how. All I want to do is make use of the product I already bought on the device of my choosing. I’m having my co-worker try with Mac the Ripper to see if it can at least get some of it. I guess those 2G of data must actually be important! LOLBCOTI And yes, I tried it with dd_rescue (well dd_rhelp actually) and in multiple drives. Even if I go directly to the VOB files they either don’t work or they’re chopped up like ’80s cable pr0n. Even after running for several days it was only able to recover 6G of it and it’s completely unwatchable. Even ddrescue is useless here because the first pass (-n) only gets 300M or so of the 8G disc. But none of them can get past the bad sector thing. No, all those things can bypass the CSS, it’s true. I love how everybody is all: VLC can do it, Handbrake can do it, blah blah blah. Unfortunately, nothing I’ve found under Linux can rip this particular DVD. I usually won’t bother buying a DVD if it doesn’t have some kick-ass extras, so I’d definitely like to have those available on my media center (OpenELEC FTW). I like to transfer the entire thing so I get all the extras, not just the main feature. This year I finally got around to building my NAS and started transferring all my DVDs over. ![]() Yeah, I bought the Hancock DVD years ago and watched it all and it was awesome, love that movie. ![]()
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