Can't rip ghostbusters

[ghelyar]

I have ghostbusters 1 and 2 on a sony DVD. It will play in my xbox 360 but not in any computer.

I have tried ripping to vob, m2v/ac3 and just normal disk images such as iso. I have tried this on windows with anydvd, on windows without anydvd and on Linux (ripping to iso with just dd). The disk is brand new (actually its at least a year old but never opened and has no visible scratches or dirt).

It is region 2 but I'm in region 2 anyway.


When using anydvd, the disk just never becomes ready and I can hear the drive going all over the place as is struggles to read it. I have not had any problems at all with any other DVD or Blu-ray disk on anydvd.

From looking this up on the web, the suggestion is usually to use anydvd OR dvd decrypter but if I can't even take a disk image with anydvd turned on, will dvd decrypter make any difference?

What could the problem be?

[setarip_old]

Try holding down (and keep holding down) the "Shift" key until the disc has finished loading...

[Inspector.Gadget]

Disable Autoplay for that drive and try again.

[ghelyar]

Autoplay has been disabled since I installed Windows. I can't stand it.

[setarip_old]

@ghelyar

Be aware that "Autoplay" and "Autorun" are two different things.

Have you tried my suggestion?

[gav1577]

Try a laser lens cleaner it worked for me when i same problem as your describing with my bluray reader where it would read some discs and not others. Contaminants can come to rest on the laser even over a short period of time. Its worth a shot they can be picked up cheap enough.

[ghelyar]

Auto play and auto run are just two names for the same thing. They are controlled by exactly the same registry keys and the only way you can possibly differentiate them is that software runs while a/v plays, but it is the same thing and just spawns different handler processes. Regardless, yes - I tried it. Holding shift isn't the same in newer versions of windows as it was in older versions though.

The reason it is jerking all over the place is probably just that anydvd is trying to decrypt it before it will make it available to the system. It will do this regardless of whether auto play or auto run are enabled (even if you assume they are different things).

I noticed that it is a sony disk and I have had it for a year or two so I was wondering if it could be something to do with that old sony rootkit scandal (as the rootkit, which was on the lead in, was required on those disks to read it).

I will try a lens cleaner but it is a relatively new drive and I have had no problems with it at all until now.