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Old 11th January 2023, 01:11   #1  |  Link
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This is a new, 100% clean, fresh-from-the-factory Blu-Ray, taken out of its shrink-wrapping less than an hour ago.

00041.m2ts and 00052.m2ts are both corrupt and unreadable according to MakeMKV.

Goddammit what the hell? I paid over $30 for this 3-disc uber special collector's whatever bullshit just so I could have a guaranteed good disc.

What are my options other than threatening to bomb James Cameron's house?
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Okay, I've found a workaround...

You see, the final third of the movie (after Jake & Neytiri screw under the magic USB cable tree) is the same between all three cuts. This allowed all three cuts to be distributed on DVD in a clever way: the first 2/3 of all 3 cuts of the movie are on disc 1 (using seamless branching, of course), and the final third is on disc 2. When I checked the movie out from the library on DVD, the second disc was unreadable no matter how much I resurfaced it, but the first was fine, and I still have the VOB of the first 2/3 of the 3-hour cut. Meanwhile, on my fresh new Blu-ray, the 2-hour-and-50-minute cut ripped just fine, and I assume the theatrical cut would too. I can therefore splice the first 2/3 of the DVD of the 3-hour cut with the final 1/3 of the Blu-Ray of the 2:50 cut to restore the 3-hour cut.

I guess I could also hunt down and extract the extra scenes from the DVD footage one by one and splice them into the Blu-ray footage of the 2:50 cut, but I'm not that much of a perfectionist.

I still want to know what the hell is up with those corrupt files, though.
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Did you try cleaning the disc?
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I've had good luck in the past using https://www.isobuster.com/ with scratched discs, try to copy it with isobuster, then try MakeMKV on the resulting ISO file.
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Did you try cleaning the disc?
No I did not try cleaning a brand new disc fresh from the factory that did not have a single molecule of dust on it.

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I've had good luck in the past using https://www.isobuster.com/ with scratched discs
The disc isn't scratched but I'll try that anyway and let you know how it goes.
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No I did not try cleaning a brand new disc fresh from the factory that did not have a single molecule of dust on it.
I have gotten brand new discs that required cleaning.
Some kind of coating from the manufacturing process was not removed completely.
MakeMKV would not read them until I cleaned them.
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