Doesn't it just frustrate you when after committing nearly an hour of
your life to watching a DVD, a scratch or something renders the ending
unreadable?

That was my situation last night.

Fortunately I have "Debian Package of the Day" on my daily reading
 list....  http://debaday.debian.net/ (That's the MetaTip of the Day -
 It's an excellent source of tips, for Ubuntu systems as well))

Which had featured gddrescue.

I installed gddrescue and ran it like so...
  sudo apt-get install gddrescue
  ddrescue -r 20 -v /dev/hdd a.iso a.log

(It has many other options, I didn't have time to experiment and work
 out which was optimal.. but that "Worked for Me at least Once")

Then
  sudo mount -o loop a.iso /mnt
  xine file:///mnt

And I can watch the ending of Full Metal Alchemist...

A rather good series actually.



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