vStrip lost sync (not authenticated?) [@LBA 0] ???

[Top_Cat]

I am getting this error message "vStrip lost sync (not authenticated?) [@LBA 0]" in vStrip.

does anyone know what it means??

Thanks

[Dark-Cracker]

hi,

u must first authenticate your dvd drive. to do this , use your dvdplayer and run the movie, after a few second stop the player and start dvd rip with vstrip. else it seems to me u can use a little tool (from danidin) "DVD Auth", or somethink like this.

Bye.

[Top_Cat]

Thanks a lot, I will try that when I return home.

Also can anyone recommend good setting for a dificult to rip DVD? I tried DVD Decrypter and Smart Ripper but both were unable to rip Vob 3 and 6 from the DVD (Men Behaving Badly - Series 3 btw). The DVD looks pretty clean from scratches so I don't think it is that!

any ideas? settings?

Thanks

Top Cat

[?¿öM¿?]

AuthDVD.exe which authenticates for you is available from .http://nic.dnsalias.com (one of the Xvid developers). Authentication is probably the problem with your inability to rip some vob files. Also, try increasing the key checking and read the vStrip guide which explains how to deal with problems like this.

DVD Decrypter is so good now that if it plays on your player, DVD Decrypter should descramble it.
:)

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Yep, that is true. If DVD Decrypter cant rip it, I wouldnt get your hopes up that something else will.
What exactly was the error that DVD Decrypter gave you? I might be able to offer you some help.

[Top_Cat]

Hi LIGHTNING

First of all, DVD Decrypter is my number 1 choice, great program! Thank you very much.

Now on with the error, the message I get is:
I/O Error

Device: [0:0:0] Pioneer DVD-Rom DVD-106 1.22 (E:)

ScsiStatus: 0x02
Interpretation: Check Condition

CDB: 28 00 00 10 E5 50 00 00 01 00
Interpretation: Read (10) - sector: 1107280

Sense area: F0 00 04 00 10 E5 50 0A 00 00 00 00 09 01
Interpretation: tracking Servo Failure

Abort/Retry/Ignore

I must be the DVD that is messed up. any advice welcome :)

[Top_Cat]

Hi,

I am starting to think that maybe this is not the DVD being damaged as I have just got Men Behaving Badly - Series 5 and that too has exactly the same problem with Vob 3 and 6!

I have only tried DVD Decrypter so far on it but as LIGHTNING said it should work in DVD Decrypter!

Any idea??

[LIGHTNING UK!]

That error means the drive cannot focus on the required sector on the disc.
Its either a dodgy disc, or a dodgy drive. Perhaps a combination of the two?

It doesnt matter what software you use, if the drive cant read it, the drive cant read it! Mine has far more control than the others and can retry sectors as many times as you like...thats what makes it so reliable.

[Top_Cat]

Hi,

I tried the DVD in another drive got the same problem, with the two vobs not being readable.

Seems odd that two different brand DVD-Rom Drives are unable to read it so I don't think it can be the DVD-Rom. Also my main Drive the Pioneer 106 always gets good review for it reading abilities!

I am not sure what the problem it but two Discs (Men behaving Badly Series 3 and MBB Series 5) both discs give this error on Vob 3 and 6 all other vobs on both disks are fine to rip.

Also Boths Discs play perfectly in PowerDVD 4.

Any idea??

[prom3theus]

I am having a similar problem with a particular disc and I'm wondering if perhaps (what I'm trying now while I search here) is whether the dvd is changing keys on you. I've set vstrip to check keys every vob-id & cell-id, which is going to be about 20 or more checks, but if that's the problem, this will find it. Maybe you can try that.

Also, when I have the problem, the disc plays wonderfully, only the rip screws up. I'm trying to take a 4-disc series and encode onto my pc so I don't have to change discs and wear down my dvd burner, and no luck on one disc.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Why dont you try another ripper?

[prom3theus]

Hey it's lightning UK. I recognize the handle (i think) from the capture forums which i haven't checked in months and months.

I did of course try multiple rippers. Dvddecryptor and smartripper are actually my first two options, smartripper being my 'by chapter' ripper since it's so easy for that for doing that. So vstrip was actually my third and last choice since it supposedly would rip just about anything. No authentication scheme worked at all to fix this sync error. In smartripper, the speed would drop from 5x to 1x or lower. It would really creep along, and ripping a 7GB dvd at 1x or less is really not very nice.

I noticed what chapter it failed on in vstrip, then I went into smartripper and ripped this chapter on it's own, and at 1x that seemed to work very well. Then I ripped all of the other chapters, and they all used the same key.

I'm assuming there was some kind of mastering error on the disc, since it played well, but as is often the case with media files, the software players are often much more forgiving than the authoring/editing tools (if you've ever had virtualdub crash on a frame which 'plays' just fine in your player you know what I mean:).

[Venge]

I had this exact same problem with Fargo SE two weeks ago. First DVDDecrypter, then Smart Ripper and finally vStrip. All gave the respective errors as described in the posts above. I just put it aside, not concerned with backing up this particular DVD since it will be a rarely played title in my collection.

The following week, I had the exact same problem with the Italian Job WS. Despite the Ripping Q&A (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16932)'s #1, I began fearing some weird copy protection or even worse: failing hardware (:eek:). However, I switched gears and began working on some DivX stuff with robot4rip and forgot to take out the DVD. Instead of using my Daemon Tools mounted image, I accidentally (read: I forgot to switch drives in r4r) ripped the DVD -- successfully. After the rip I noticed the mistake and immeadiately tried Fargo again. It also worked using r4r. I, of course, then gleefully went about finishing what I set out to do with both those titles and haven't since really had the time to inspect the CLI command r4r used for DVDDecrypter to see what I missed. My guess would be mastering errors also and submit this as an alternative solution to prom3theus's chapter extract work-around.

[Pen-Pen]

when I tried ripping Friends S4 PAL DVD last week, after a fresh WinXP install (and forceaspi, as usual), I stumbled across more or less the same problem : same error message from vStrip and silent crashing from SmartRipper...

I tried uninstalling the aspi layer, and unlocking the dvd with a player, everything worked fine !!!!

I don't know if such a problem has already been pointed out or if any solution exists, but I just thought my reply could help some people who find this thread looking for the answers I never found ^^