[ale] DVD ripping

[Paul Cartwright]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
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>
> Check the temp of the disk when it is removed. Some low quality DVD
> drives are quite lousy at heat removal and the lasers have sidebands all
> in the IR region. This excessive thermal buildup causes numerous
> problems from optical distortion to pickup errors to electronics
> failures. All of these errors vanish when the drive is allowed to cool
> down between runs. Back to back dd sessions are thermally intensive even
> on good drives. I have pulled disks out and they have been nearly
> uncomfortable to touch.
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I have also found that I had a problem burning DVDs, and I changed the 
speed setting to 2X ( 8X drive) and it worked better. I was getting 
garbled audio & video, and it would just quit midway through a DVD.
-- 
Paul Cartwright

-- 
Paul Cartwright
paulc at blackbirdpros.com
706-206-7238

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