I have used the ripper portion of AnyDVD on 4.7GB disks without problem. Does anyone know if the same program wikk repair 8.5GB DL disks? Thanks
ANYDVD is not a repair program to fix back up disk or movie disks....its a driver that works in the back-ground... AnyDVD works in the background to automatically remove the copy protection of a DVD movie as soon as it's inserted into the drive, allowing you then to backup the movie using a DVD backup tool such as CloneDVD and CloneDVD mobile. You can also remove the RPC region code, thereby making the movie region free and viewable on any DVD player and with any DVD player software. AnyDVD is capable of removing unwanted movie features, including subtitles and prohibition messages such as copyright and FBI warnings. It also allows you to launch an external application whenever you insert or remove a disc, or prevent 'PC-friendly' software from automatically launching when you insert a video DVD. Decryption is not all that AnyDVD offers. You can control the drive speed of your DVD drive, allowing you to reduce the noise level when watching movies on your PC. You can even adjust the display frequency of your monitor for both NTSC and PAL displays. But AnyDVD doesn't just stop at DVDs. It also decrypts protected audio CDs to allow you to copy them.
Hi Ireland. AnyDVD does have a repair function called DVD ripper. This is not related to the more common use for decryptation only. You have been around for a long time, I know. I have always taken your advice about most matters. The repair function is for scratched or damaged DVDs. This is not described very well by Slysoft, but it is there and works nicely for damaged DVDs. I just wondered if it could handle dual layer DVDs as well. Thanks,
I have NEVER had any dvd ripper to take care of any problem DVD that And dvd and CloneDVD2 together could not handle. If the two together can not make a successful backup, any dvd ripper will not work for you anyway (for me it never has).
If the data is that badly damaged there is nothing any program can do... I have serious doubts that anydvd is any more capable of this than dvdfab decrypter or other reputable rippers are.
There has been a lot of negative comments about the AnyDVD ripper function for damaged DVDs. I note that no one ( who replied ) appears to have actually tried the function that was discussed here.
No, it is not automatic. It must be selected by right clicking the AnyDVD icon. It has repaired several of my previously recorded DVDs (with AnyDVD and Nero Recode) that later had become scratched or otherwise unplayable from misuse. I have only done this type of ripping with 4.7 disks. (Very handy function) My original question was related to whether this same program would repair 8.5DB dual layer disks. Thaks for your interest.
I'll use the ripper on both it works well. It's ripping the movie to the hard drive to be pulled out with whatever program you want and it does help on some damaged discs. Theres a guide on it and I don't remember if it was in user submitted guides or Bob mayos or Scuba Petes I know it was somewhere in the forums by a member on it's option possibly even Creaky. Chris Speak of the devil & AnyDVD just updated again.
I must have been misunderstood, I use anydvd ripper... the repair function is automatic if you use the ripper. I still believe that yes it may be able to repair scratched discs, but I still don't believe it will be able to repair a disc if the data is damaged or if the data has started breaking down due to poor media. I can see it getting ast a scratch and being able to pull the data from the disc, but a far as being able to repair corrupted data... no way.
Agree there res2cue I pull it back out with nero and run deep anaylsis if it works fine if not nothing lost except my one burner I'll run a movie through Recode with anaylis. Chris
The repair function is not for scratched or damaged DVDs. as below....................... Addition 22-04-2006: AnyDVD Ripper (derived from the source code of http://download.videohelp.com/FixVTS/ Used when you are having problems with a badly authored DVD RIP Video-DVD to Harddisk adjusts your DVD files for better DVD compliance, so they can be opened in CloneDVD2. It adjust as little information as possible in the VOB and IFO files to allow opening in other apps while keeping the DVD as similar as the original as possible. You would use this if an authoring tool messed up your DVD and the result can no longer be used. This can also happen with DVDs that have been deliberately authored containing errors in the IFO or VOB files. The DVD still plays on your standalone player but won't open in any DVD editing tools. It can also remove unreferenced cells (i.e. cells that are in the vob files, but never played back, according to the IFO file). it also fixes blank packs that are sometimes introduces by DVD rippers when they encounter unreadable sectors. These blank packs can either be removed, or replaced by compliant "stuffing packs". If you right click on the Fox tray icon and select RIP Video-DVD to Harddisk another window will open What you now need to do is select the Source Directory IE: where you are ripping from, usually the VIDEO_TS folder on the DVD you have in the drive. then select the Destination Directory IE: where you want to save the files on your computer. Afterwards you would open CloneDVD2 and point it at the files on your Harddrive to transcode and create the DVD. more info What FixVTS does: * FixVTS opens a full Video Title Set (i.e. a menu vob, or a series of title vobs) and updates a number of important pointers in the vob file. Specifically, the forward pointers (enabling to quickly go from navpack to navpack) and the two this->LBA pointers that indicate the sector of the current navpack. * In addition, FixVTS keeps track of all the navpacks, and of all the cells in the vob file, and adjusts the IFO file for the titleset so that they match what's in the vob files. * FixVTS can also remove unreferenced cells (i.e. cells that are in the vob files, but never played back, according to the IFO file). * FixVTS also fixes blank packs that are sometimes introduces by DVD rippers when they encounter unreadable sectors. These blank packs can either be removed, or replaced by compliant "stuffing packs". * FixVTS can be compared to an IFOEdit "Mock Strip" in the sense that it performs some of the modifications that IFOEdit does. However, FixVTS does not update all the pointers IFOEdit does, and does not mess up the PGC cell flags or the cell commands. It does reorder the VCIDs, which is something that a mock strip does not do. In addition, it is significantly faster (in-place mode) and can process an entire DVD with 1 click. * FixVTS tries hard to process as fast as possible by re-writing only what's necessary. When processing from backup, everything must be re-written, so that's the slowest option. When processing in-place, and if the option to remove unreferenced material is not checked, only blank packs and navpacks are re-written, and only if it's necessary (for example, if some of the pointers are wrong, or if they are renumbered). Probably more than you want to know: To update the IFO, FixVTS creates a table that maps navpacks in the input (original) vob files to the navpacks in the output (modified) vob file. It then re-creates the VOBU_ADMAP and VTS_C_ADT IFO tables using the positions of the navpacks in the output vob files, and changes the lba pointers in the pgc cells for all the pgcs, according to the input/output navpack table. This way, a pgc cell that points to a specific navpack in a given vob cell will point to the same navpack in the output vob, even if that navpack no longer has the same lba (because a cell or some blank packs might have been removed before). In addition, FixVTS renumbers the VCID (vob/cell ids) so the VOB and CELL IDs are always consecutive, and always start at 1. This was found (by jsoto) to be necessary for DVDShrink to report the right audio and video sizes. Where is the log file? Starting with FixVTS Beta 1.17, the log file is located in the directory pointed to by your %TEMP% environment variable. To open it from FixVTS, simply right-click on the title-bar (the top, dark blue bar of the window) and select "Open Log". How to use FixVTS: 1. Simply drag and drop one of the VOB files from the desired VTS. To process the menu domain of VTS 1, drag drop vts_01_0.vob for example, or video_ts.vob for the manager. To process the title domain, drag and drop vts_01_1.vob or vts_01_2.vob for example. 2. Select if you want to process "in-place" or from backup. In-place processing is usually much faster, but no backup is create of the original vob and ifo files. This is still the recommended option since it's much faster. Processing from backup is safer in that you can revert to the version just before you processed. However, it's usually much slower because an entire VTS has to be written. cheers
ireland never stop passing out your info like your indepth explanations and always pick up more info along the way. Thank You Chris
