After all those hours of copy there were some files missing and it did not work. Found a tool called dvd decrypt and it worked like a charm. Picked out the video from the dvd in a very short time and got rid of the garbage files and fixed unreadable files. Total size on disk after fixing 5.7 GB
2010/12/31 Björn Helgason <[email protected]> > The copy process is still going on since yesterday and reports 10 more hour > to go. > > I have had to skip 5 files and have received 39 of 120 files and properties > of the folder shows 21GB so far. > > I am surprised by the size increase as well as the option to change the > date to the future. > > > > 2010/12/31 Robert Raschke <[email protected]> > > 2010/12/30 Björn Helgason <[email protected]> >> >> > I am a bit surprised about a dvd disk I am copying to a usb disk, >> > Usually the dvds are 4GB or less. >> > This dvd lists as 7GB in properties and listing it there are a lot of >> 1GB >> > files and all in all 120 files compared to less than 20 on the other >> dvds >> > in >> > the series I am copying. >> > What is surprising is that the copy operation tells me the files are >> more >> > than 65GB and is taking forever to copy. >> > I have to have a dvd player open on the pc open on the film because >> > otherwise the copy operation reports some of the files empty or >> impossible >> > to copy. >> > I am having doubts about having this 65GB monster folder on my hard disk >> > for >> > one dvd but I am going to let the copy operation finish and see if I can >> > compress the files in the folder. >> > I have never witnessed this before. >> > Is this something the dvd makers do to deter us from copying. >> > There are all kinds of tricks needed to copy some dvds. >> > It is interesting that the file dates are reported as created 30.12.2010 >> > during copy but after the copy the date is reported as 7.2.2036 >> > >> > >> Quite a few DVDs are double layer these days, that's why it's ~7GB. Maybe >> your OS is getting confused by that a bit? Or, as you say, the >> manufacturer >> is using some "undocumented" bit of the DVD standard to make copying >> harder. >> >> Robby >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > -- > Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur > Fornustekkum II > 781 Hornafirði, > t-póst: [email protected] > gsm: +3546985532 > sími: +3544781286 > http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming > > > Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans > > góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum > /|_ .-----------------------------------. > ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | > ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | > / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | > ( -. | `-----------------------------------' > | ) | (\_ _/) > (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ > `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði, t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
