Re: DVD failures

jimstevens wrote:
[Default] On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:48:19 -0800 (PST), mg
<mgkelson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 31, 10:07 am, Glenn <mino...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Some time back I posted the name of an NIST publication on DVDs and CDs.
Today I used that information to recover a movie DVD.

My wife belongs to a book club and they had a special for Harry Potter and
the Order of the Phoenix DVD if we ordered in advance of its availability
date. When I got the disc, it wouldn't play the first track or so but the
player skipped to a short way into the move. By selecting scenes, I could
see the first part, but none of the previews and ads. When I tried it on
my PC, it wouldn't get past the FBI warning. When all else fails, read
the manual, or in this case above publication. Cleaned the disc according
to the directions and all is fine. If anyone needs this information, see

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/contents.html

Section 6, cleaning.

--
Glenn
I usually clean them gently with Windex. The worst ones are generally
the children's movies. They often have things on them such as peanut
butter and jelly, etc.

Once in a while, you will get a rental DVD that looks like someone has
skipped across the surface with a grinding machine. I'm guessing this
must be caused by a broken DVD player. There's nothing you can do with
these discs to get them to play.

Almost all can be copied though! Copy files to a hard drive and
reburn DVD if it one of yours.
What do you use to decrypt a DVD?

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