On 4/30/2010 9:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Is there such a DVD app analogous to cdparanoia? Or is it not possible due to the differing data, WAV vs. MPEG? The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failing.
I thought cdparanoia was DVDparanoia. I mean, for DVDs as well. Shows you what I know...
Audio CDs cannot be guaranteed 100% faithfully copied, for annoying reasons. Which is why ripping them used to be fraught with danger. And why some CDs would ruin your speakers.[0] DVDs are just (encrypted) video files. So, yeah, that's the reason. Not that it's not possible, but that it's not necessary.
MAA0. The Avatar DVDs are DRMed-up, too. I don't know how this works for DVDs, but they won't play in Blu-Ray players, and not even in all DVD players. Worse than pointless. Actually evil...