Need help badly on a DVD issue.

[Cawchy87]

A friend made a video of the best parties our school had for 2005. We just had the video release party at my house yesterday. I told him if he left the master with me I would be able to make copies for everyone who wanted one (20+ people).

However, I keep getting a cyclic redundency error no matter what program I use to try to copy the dvd. The movie is not copyrighted so I know that isn't the problem. The disc is slightly scatched on the bottom, but is still in excellent shape, I havd DVD's that are far worse than this. The DVD WILL play in my computer and DVD players, but won't copy for some reason.

I have tried:
1. Nero (Copy DVD feature)
2. Clone DVD2
3. DVD Shrink
4. DVD Decrypter
5. Super CloneDVD
6. DVD X Copy
7. Drag and Drop the Video_TS file from windows explorer to my desktop.
8. All of the above with a different DVD-ROM on a different computer.

This is the only copy that he has, and it would be very difficult for him to make another one (don't ask me why he didn't make 2).

Is there anything else I could try to copy this DVD at least to my hard drive?

OR...

Is there a place I could take the DVD so they could make a copy for me, using more advanced hardware?

I appreciate any input for this, and let me know if you need any more detail.

 

[Pepsei]

Cyclic Reduncency Error seems to be the best copy protection to-date. no joke.

 

[Cawchy87]

Cover


Discs


Problem (Showing that it isn't copyright protected)

Judgeing from the poor printing job he did on the cover I had just assumed that it wasn't copyright protected. AnyDVD just confirmed that for me.

Any advice?

EDIT: I realize "Youth Gone Wild" sounds like pron, but he named it after a Skid Row song.

 

[jcwagers]

Have you tried rebooting between tries? I have problems with DVD Shrink occasionally if I've burned a few dvds in a row. Usually wiping off the disc and rebooting fixes the problem for me. I don't know if it'll help you but it's worth a shot, if you haven't tried it already.

jc

 

[0roo0roo]

diferent drive

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

Do you get "cyclic redundancy" errors when you use DVD Decrypter, or a different error?

Also, have you tried Alcohol 120%?

 

[Cawchy87]

Yes, I got the Cyclic redundancy error when using DVD Decrypter. And even when I used it on a different DVD-ROM. My guess was that it is a combo of super cheap blank media and a few minor scratches on the surface.

Anyway, long story short, after trying MANY programs... one worked!

CloneDVD (No relation to the the CloneCD and CloneDVD2 programs I have... oddly) http://www.clonedvd.net/

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions and I might post some funny clips on google video if I ever find out how to convert this thing to .avi.