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Old 26-07-2011, 15:30
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I recently purchased 2 DVD films from eBay. On each disc there is a film on BOTH sides of the disc. I went to make a copy on my PC of one film just as a back up. The problem is that Roxio, Nero, DVD43, IMG Burn, or DVD Decrypter will not recognise the disc as it says "Medium not present."
Anyone have any better programs that I could download that would work?
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Old 26-07-2011, 15:35
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It is unusual for imgburn to give that error unless the disk is actually unreadable. Can you see the disk contents in windows explorer?
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Old 26-07-2011, 15:47
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AnyDVD from slysoft ?
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Old 26-07-2011, 16:40
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AnyDVD does not work either. How would I see the contents in Windows Explorer?
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Old 26-07-2011, 16:46
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Check the drive letter that your DVD uses. You should see a couple of folders in there.
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Old 26-07-2011, 19:01
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I went to My Computer, then right clicked on the D Drive & clicked explore, open etc but all that it says is "D Drive".
I then put in an ordinary DVD & did the same thing but this time I was given the option of clicking on Img Burn Read.
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Old 26-07-2011, 19:04
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Does the disk actually play in a dvd player? Sounds like your PC can't read the disk.
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Old 26-07-2011, 20:57
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It plays fine in a DVD player.
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Old 26-07-2011, 21:28
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I've had this before.
Unless the drive is on its way out the disc is probably not very good and your drive simply cannot read it .
If you know someone with a Pioneer recorder you can use the Disc Backup feature on that .
Alternatively try another pc drive and make a brand new copy of both sides.

Is this a recordable bootleg disc?
I'm not aware of double sided blank +R or -R discs?
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Old 26-07-2011, 21:38
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DVD shrink will copy any DVD on the market, unless its physically damaged.
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Old 26-07-2011, 21:49
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DVD shrink will copy any DVD on the market, unless its physically damaged.
DVD Shrink cannot even copy some DVD+R discs if they are recorded a certain way.

DVD Shrink is way out of date and there are quite a few discs where it cannot cope with the new forms of copy protection.

Discs from the last couple of years issued on the C4 label for starters.

And DVD Shrink won't be of any use at all if the drive cannot even see the disc - which is the problem here.

DVD Fab Platinum copies all dvd's and is even keeping up with the new CP formats on Bluray
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Old 26-07-2011, 22:47
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DVD Shrink cannot even copy some DVD+R discs if they are recorded a certain way.

DVD Shrink is way out of date and there are quite a few discs where it cannot cope with the new forms of copy protection.
Correct - lots of newer Sony discs (movies and music DVDs) that DVD Shrink doesn't even attempt to decrypt.
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Old 26-07-2011, 22:55
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Correct - lots of newer Sony discs (movies and music DVDs) that DVD Shrink doesn't even attempt to decrypt.
IIRC the R1 disc of Hostel was the first one I encountered and that goes back several years
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Old 27-07-2011, 01:27
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IIRC the R1 disc of Hostel was the first one I encountered and that goes back several years
Star trek and The social network also were not 'back-up-able'

Dvdfab usually works OP.
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Old 27-07-2011, 02:32
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Can you read any DVD in your PC ?
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Old 27-07-2011, 02:51
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I can read any other disc except this one. strange.
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Old 27-07-2011, 15:31
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Best chance is dvdfab. Of course, making a copy is illegal in UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVDFab
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Old 27-07-2011, 15:46
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I tried DVD Fab as well & also DVD43. No joy.
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Old 27-07-2011, 16:08
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No software is going to be able to copy the disc - if the disc can't be seen by the computer anyway. You are wasting your time looking.

Until the computer - and Windows - recognises that you have a DVD-Video disc in the DVD drawer, no piece of software which runs on top of Windows is going to be able to copy the contents of that DVD disc to your hard drive, then back it up to another DVD disc.

You need to either try a different disc with the same disc contents on (i.e. borrow one from somebody else who's bought the same DVD) or replace your PC DVD writer with one which will recognise the contents of that disc. If it's something other than Region 2 - and you've used all your goes at swapping different region codes in the past, I think Windows lets you swap a maximum of five times - then you won't be able to read it on that computer. You'll have to use another PC which hasn't been fixed at Region 2 yet.
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Old 27-07-2011, 16:33
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it could be some sort of bodged dvd-vcd or dvd-svcd chinese copy so it may not have the required details that windows needs to see it as a legit volume

check the details of your dvd player it works on and lookup all the different disk formats it supports as you may find the one its using and perhaps a fix to get past it
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Old 27-07-2011, 17:00
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I was just thinking. I have a DVD Player & also a DVD Recorder. I could insert the disc into the player & record it on to the DVD Recorder. Only problem is that the DVD blanks that I have are only 80 minutes long. The film is 1 hour 57 minutes long. I have heard of DVD blanks with larger memory but I have never seen them.
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Old 27-07-2011, 18:14
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Correct - lots of newer Sony discs (movies and music DVDs) that DVD Shrink doesn't even attempt to decrypt.
Point taken, although it can reauthor them. Like with Star Trek you would:

1. StartAnyDVD (latest version)
2. Starte DVD Shrink and selected Re-author as opposed to Full Disc. Shrink automatically selected Title 21. Output to .iso file.
3. Burn with ImgBurn

I've personally not had a problem with Dvdshrink but that doesn't mean I can click on a menu and automatically rip it - the process is more involved.

Thanks for the heads up on dvdfab, will switch to that.

This is a good forum for ripping:

http://forum.videohelp.com/forums/24-DVD-Ripping

You can find out how to rip things like star trek and that hostel film, but you're correct in that it won't be straight forward and will probably need to go through a few stages first.
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Old 27-07-2011, 21:13
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I was just thinking. I have a DVD Player & also a DVD Recorder. I could insert the disc into the player & record it on to the DVD Recorder. Only problem is that the DVD blanks that I have are only 80 minutes long. The film is 1 hour 57 minutes long. I have heard of DVD blanks with larger memory but I have never seen them.
DVD blanks lasting 80 minutes do not exist.

DVD blanks have a limited capacity of gigabytes not minutes.

A standard one can hold 60 minutes in XP and 120 minutes in SP.

The more you want to record the lower the quality setting will be.

You can adjust the setting on your dvd recorder to fit a 2 hour film no problem - assuming these are standard cd sized discs and not the smaller discs for camcorder use

The disc should hold 4.7Gb which is usually 4.4 -4.2 depending on your recorder.

Does your DVDR have a HDD with it?
Is the problem disc a commercially released disc or a home recorded blank?

80 minutes is usually the limit for cdr not dvdr
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Old 27-07-2011, 21:20
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I was just thinking. I have a DVD Player & also a DVD Recorder. I could insert the disc into the player & record it on to the DVD Recorder. Only problem is that the DVD blanks that I have are only 80 minutes long. The film is 1 hour 57 minutes long. I have heard of DVD blanks with larger memory but I have never seen them.
I think you are getting confused. Blank CD's are 80 minutes long - not blank DVD's. The standard settings for DVD recorders are HQ (60mins video), SP (120 minutes video), EP (180 minutes video) and LP (240 minutes video). These times are approximate and depends on various factors but it's a good rule of thumb Single layer discs hold about 4.7GB of data.
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Old 27-07-2011, 22:48
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It looks like a genuine disc.So I will try to copy the disc using the 120 minutes option. As for HD I'm not sure if my DVD Recorder has this. I will go through the menus to see or even locate the manual. The DVD Recorder is http://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-DRT389H-U...8120106&sr=1-1
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