Can a Bad Backup Be "Fixed" by Re-Encoding?

[TomBrooklyn]

I made a backup of the movie Antz and I'm pretty sure it was a good copy because I think I watched the whole thing on the backup disk. It turned out I needed the backup because I lost the original but when I just watched it I found it gets "stuck" about 3/4 of the way through and won't progress past that point. I tried it on two players and it stuck in the same spot.

Is it possible if I reencoded and reburnt using the backup as an original that this process might be able to "fix" or skip over the stuck part and make the movie watchable to the end? If a few seconds of the movie were lost at the "bad" part that would be acceptable.

[archaeo]

One thing I would try to eliminate before going any further is the possibility of bad media - It's usually the first thing I look at when I have skipping or stops in a backup.

Try re ripping and burning to a media you trust, and see if that solves it.

[FishTank]

can you even copy it to the hdd? if its the disc, then that wont work.
if you have it on your hdd, try divfix or open it in vdub and go beyond
that point and look at the frames.

[TomBrooklyn]

I tried re-ripping but I'm ripping off the bad copy and there were some errors. I didn't write down what they were. I'm going to try it again in a bit.

[blutach]

I lost the original Sorry, can't help you with disks you do not own.

Read rule 6 and the announcement at the top of the Newbies forum.

Sadly, your only legal remedy is to buy the DVD again - I know this makes no sense as I know you are not a pirate Tom.

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Regards