Chris Wilson Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 A company called 2pus2TV put a camera and recorder on my race car at Donington last week and recorded some footage. They sent a DVD of this in the post yesterday. However, it will not play on 4 different PC's, a computer boffin has looked at it and can't see any protection, but as the disc content appears none existent on a PC drive it's hard to say. ("No Disc Loaded" after a legthy pause). It has played on someone elses DVD player connected to a normal TV though. I am beginning to think the DVD is faulty unless anyone here can sugest some alternatives for reading the damned thing? I have latest Nero 6 and things like Alcohol 120% and ProtectionID. I just want to play it, not copy it. I don't own a DVD connected to my TV, only a DVD player and a DVD player / recorder on my PC. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 My friend owns a DV camera with SVHS input. He thinks that you can record directly to it from an SVHS source. If you put the DVD into a player with SVHS output and record to the camera, we should be able to pull the footage back off the camera digital tape. That unless they've used Macrovision protection also in which case you'll need a decoder box to remove it before you can output the video stream. I'm sure whoever was helping you would love to be described as a "Computer Boffin" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Chris, What are you trying to play it with on the PC? If all else fails, I could try to rip it to mpeg for you. Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Chris, What are you trying to play it with on the PC? If all else fails, I could try to rip it to mpeg for you. Paul A PC will NOT read the disc. Depending on the application it is either "Unrecognised format" or a "Blank Disk". The ROM tries several times to read the start sectors on the discs but gives up. This is also on a brand spanking new Pioneer A09 writer. Either they've utilised some fancy technology like Sony did a while back on Audio CDs where discs could only be played on CD Players and not computers (which is defeatable)...or it's a flaky disc recorded at very high speed and the DVD player tested is more resiliant to reading it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRoy Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 I reckon the disc is faulty, if nothing shows on a DVD drive and its not protected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicmatty Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Do you know what format the disk is? DVD+? or DVD- ? I originally bought a "+" drive and its disks rarely played on anything, now I bought a combi "+" & "-" drive it writes and plays all formats... Could it just be as simple as that??? (Especially as it plays on someone elses!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Do you know what format the disk is? DVD+? or DVD- ? I originally bought a "+" drive and its disks rarely played on anything, now I bought a combi "+" & "-" drive it writes and plays all formats... Could it just be as simple as that??? (Especially as it plays on someone elses!) DVD-R media. The A09 is as up to the minute as you can get and supports all formats. You'll find that -R discs are generally more easily read by DVD players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Can you play any DVDs on your PC? If so, start playing one. Eject it and put this DVD in. This gets around the normal encryption and should allow you to read the disk. Also have you tried something like DVDShrink to rip the contents? Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Also have you tried something like DVDShrink to rip the contents? The disc is not recognised by the OS. The drive will not read it - DVDShrink is not going to help that. I very much doubt the swap trick will work either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKEYmark Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 dvd decryptor is a free program that removes macrovision. seems a strange not been able to read in pc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 dvd decryptor is a free program that removes macrovision. seems a strange not been able to read in pc. DVD Decrypter was primarily designed to defeat CSS and as a bonus can remove Macrovision. Interestingly my Dad has a Wedding DVD from Slovakia which may have the same symptoms. Will get my hands on it when I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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