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It doesn't do well at its intended purpose, but there's a Meguair's
(sp?) product for reconditioning headlight lenses that works great on
scratched CDs.<br>
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On 3/23/10 3:55 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
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type="cite">Scott, I have heard that a light coat of mayonnaise and
wipe down of the disk can allow recovery of scratched DVDs (or at least
CDs). Supposedly the optical characteristics of the oil+egg
yolk+vinegar is pretty similar to the plastic of the CD.<br>
GC <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Scott
Castaline <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div class="im">On 03/23/2010 09:26 AM, Preston Boyington wrote:<br>
> Richard Bronosky wrote:<br>
>> Because the movie studios are actively breaking all the
efforts made<br>
>> toward DVD ripping, the rippers must be actively maintained.
For that<br>
>> reason, I prefer to pay someone to fight the fight for me. I
use<br>
>> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://ripitapp.com/"
target="_blank">http://ripitapp.com/</a> because it rips the new
technologies far earlier<br>
>> than other apps.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> I'm a big fan of DVDFab. They offer a free 'DVD Decrypter' as a<br>
> download. Basically I use it to pull the info to hard drive and
that is<br>
> what I use as the source for Handbrake.<br>
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Needs Windows, I don't do windows. So far I've had no problem with<br>
ddrescue. It's been able to retrieve scratched DVDs, although I have 1st<br>
season of House MD that has never seen the light of day except to be<br>
ripped before my Seagate issues, I've had to rerip it again, but was<br>
uable to complete. It seems that when I removed it during the 1st<br>
ripping the DVD drawer had started closing causing it to scratch it,<br>
although at the time I didn't realizes how bad. This time however it<br>
took 4 hours to only get half of the DVD and at one point 100% CPU and<br>
all four temp monitors hit the red zone. I guess I have a new coaster<br>
and Hollywood gets more tax money.<br>
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By the way I've noticed that the problems with DVD/CD eject seems to<br>
have returned and it's worse now. I now wait a full 30 seconds before<br>
removing the disk from the drawer. I have had it after eject pausing for<br>
15 sec and then closing on its own. Possessed players? Both the player<br>
and burner eventually will do it. There was a fix in the past which I<br>
was able to get to work, but I can't seem to find it now, any clues?<br>
(uname -r = 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64)<br>
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