dvd shrink and dvd errors

[goldberg]

ive just tried to backup my cher dvd
it has a scatch
dvd decrypter decrypted it with a with errors about 50
ive tried using dvdshrink 2.3 to reauthor it i get a error message
is there a option on dvd shrink that lets u bypass dvd errors

[2COOL]

Originally posted by goldberg
ive just tried to backup my cher dvd
it has a scatch
dvd decrypter decrypted it with a with errors about 50
ive tried using dvdshrink 2.3 to reauthor it i get a error message
is there a option on dvd shrink that lets u bypass dvd errors How deep is your scratch? I invested in one of those retailed scratch removers (Skip Doctor) and that fixed my problems with buffing out the surface scratches.

[goldberg]

its about 2 seconds long when playing the dvd
can i remove the 2 seconds and get shrink to reauthor it

[Grover]

Hi goldberg - When you are doing the backing-up part, are you getting DVDShrink to read the DVD direct from the DVD-ROM drive,

OR

are you first ripping the DVD as an .iso image, to you HDD with DVDDecrypter using ".iso READ" mode and then mounting this .iso image as a virtual DVD-ROM drive with Daemon Tools (http://www.daemon-tools.cc/portal/download.php?sid=814a7a62275afb2c00c746f48720463a) and then getting DVDShrink to read from this.

I normaly get DVDShrink to read direct from DVD wherever I can to save time and HDD space, but sometimes DVDShrink has problems reading certain discs, so I rip them to an .iso image with DVDDecrpyter and then DVDShrink works fine reading from that.

I'm no expert in this field but I would guess the DVD ripping abilties and read error handling abiltites of DVDDecryter would be greater than DVDShrink's. Meaning that if you can get a successfull .iso image rip of your scratched DVD using DVDDecrypter then you should be able to mount this as a virtual drive, point DVDShrink at it and then DVDShrink will be happy also.

Also - have a try using DVDShrink 3.0 Beta 5. (much better video quality IMHO, as well as other funtionality. it's listed as a "beta" but if only we could get "final release" products that are this stable...)

Cheers...