Issues reading DL DVD Video

Sphexi

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Feb 22, 2005
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I've got a Lite-On 8x DVD+/-RW DL drive, it's worked fine with every single disc up until now. The video disc itself works fine in normal DVD players, even older ones (5+ years old), but when I put it in the computer drive it simply sits there and makes sounds similar to old floppy drives trying to read a bum disc. After a while the drive quits trying, it's never able to read the disc. I've installed a demo of AnyDVD to see if it'd help, nothing gained there.

It's a video called Twins Effect, basically a Hong Kong movie subtitled in English. It's distributed in North America, NTSC based, on what the box claims is a Dual-Layer DVD9 disc, whether it actually is or not I can't tell. It's definitely a stamped disc though, silver all over the back, not a cheap copy or burned disc.

Any ideas why I can't read this thing? I'd like to be able to watch it on the computer, since I've lost the remote for my DVD player and can't enable subtitles :(