DVDfab: Troubleshooting
Determining which Title(Angle) to rip
Some DVD have 2 complete movie tracks, often a "rated" and "unrated" version. Typically the longer one is what you want, but not always. Sometimes it has been observed that the more desirable "unrated" version was a minute or more shorter. DVDFab seems to favor the first of the two occurrences without regards to size or which version. The point was originally with DVD to have 2 different camera angles but that is less common. Sometimes you have to use the Internet search to find out which is the correct angle. A list of Movie Censorship information sources is also useful to determine which track you want to make a backup of.
There are online resources to locate information about your DVD and which track is the unrated version.
- http://www.movie-censorship.com/
- http://www.cduniverse.com
- http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/43598/hot-tub-time-machine/
- http://video.barnesandnoble.com/DVD/Hot-Tub-Time-Machine/John-Cusack/e/883904206040#TABS
Error while reading! Please choose what to do? retry, abort, ignore, ignore All
- Clean this movie disc and your drive tray first, and then insert the disc in to see if DVDFab can read it successfully;
- Open "Common Settings" window, click on "Read", select "Ignore all the reading errors automatically", then try again to see the result;
- Go to "Common Settings/Pathplayer" setting panel, deactivate pathplayer to copy this DVD again to see if this works.
How to copy scratched movie with DVDFab
Choose "Full Disc" mode for backing up a scratched disc. This mode will skip all the sectors which can't be read, and fill the gaps with empty sectors.