<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Dan Linder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan@linder.org">dan@linder.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org" target="_blank">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">
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But can you watch the movie, or at least 33% of it? Your DVD might be<br>
damaged, or mis-manufactured.<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br>That's my next test when I get some time. Unless I get a lot of free time, I'll probably put it in, watch the first 2-3 minutes, skip 30 minutes, watch another 2-3 minutes, skip, repeat. Any reason that wouldn't be a valid test? Or should I block out some time to watch it straight through from beginning to end?<br>
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</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I have some odd but satisfying and positive results. <br><br>Originally, I had the DVD limited to "x2" via the GUI. When I bumped it all the way to the max (x8?), I was able to successfully rip both movies on the first try.<br>
<br>Maybe my DVD drive has a quirk at the x2 speed, or maybe it was just a bad day. Either way, thanks for the discussion and thoughts. Now on to the rest of the family library. :-)<br><br>Dan<br clear="all"></div></div>
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